Scott Chaffin

Chief Morlock for the Pokerati Empire

The Cradle of Texas Liberty - Uno dei fatti piu notevoli al principio del decimosesto secolo e senza dubbio l'apparire della cortigiana; figura degna di considerazione e di esame non ebbe pur anco uno storico che di lei si occupasse scrupolosamente e gelosamente, e, diseppellendo dalle biblioteche ed archivii i numerosi documenti che la riguardano, dasse compiuta questa pagina di storia che non e tra le ultime del nostro rinascimento. Il nome di cortigiana si collega certamente alla storia dell'umanesimo, ma quando, dove e come ebbe principio? Tale quesito non ha ancora risposta sicura. Arturo Graf, che si occupo ultimo della questione con quell'acume di critica ed abbondanza di erudizione ben note, esita a dare giudizio decisivo, attendendo pur lui che nuovi studi e documenti traccino via piu ampia e sicura per definire tale punto. Lo sviluppo della cortigiana prodotto dalla rivoluzione sociale che si svolgeva nel rinascimento, adattato al nuovo regime di vita.

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Latest Posts by The Fat Guy:

• Texas? REPUBLICAN? Endorses Online Poker?!?!?!

  25 May 2011

  I know it runs counter to conventional poker(ati) wisdom that this could be true, but, well, it kinda is: Republicans offered some hope Tuesday to online poker players sidelined by the Obama administration’s “Black Friday” crackdown. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) is planning to introduce legislation that would legalize and regulate online poker and said he [...]

• Black Monday?

  23 May 2011

  The DoJ District of Maryland unsealed an indictment today charging multiple online poker and gambling sites of charges similar in nature to the Black Friday indictments last month. While the indictment itself has not been released publicly at this time, the DoJ has a press release describing the action. In all, two businesses and three [...]

• This Week’s Big Winners – May 21st

  21 May 2011

  The signs of Rapture are all around us. No, I’m not talking about the idiot who spent his life savings putting up billboards around the country to tell everyone the world was going to end on May 21st. I’m talking about the world in which I exist, the poker world, where we’re clearly in a [...]

• Rabbit Hunt

  13 May 2011

  Gary Wise from ESPN fame joins the The Rabbit Hunt as their guest panelist of the week on an all-UB news cycle. We discuss the state of the company, the raids that occurred over the weekend, their recent deal with the DOJ, and the continued fallout the…

• These Weeks’ Big Winners – May 12th

  12 May 2011

  As you’ll see somewhere further down the page, I was a bit busy on the other side of the poker industry last week, thus delaying this column. Other things delaying this column include the NBA Playoffs, a little league baseball game, and finally a wasp sting on my left pointer finger. But I digress. Unfortunately [...]

• Rabbit Hunt

  07 May 2011

  Mark and Matt are joined by the man behind the pkrgssp blog, Jeff Walsh, to discuss the latest developments in the world of poker. AP is now looking at bankruptcy, and this throws player funds deeper into question. Also, fresh news about the FS+G leagu…

• Erik Seidel, the music video.

  30 Apr 2011

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• This Week’s Big Winners – April 26th

  26 Apr 2011

  The United States Government. Check back next week to see if anything changes. In all seriousness, the last week and a half has been a dark one for the industry, and last week didn’t necessarily feel like the appropriate time to recognize the few people who were fortunate enough to make a few dollars in [...]

• FT returns to the tubes?

  21 Apr 2011

  Pokerati Morlock here. I hope I’m not stepping on any editorial toes here, and I’m certainly informing you of something that a well-informed bunch of readers like Pokerati already know, but… The bad Word-doc-as-GIF is gone from fulltiltpoker.com, and it redirects to fulltiltpoker.co.uk. I was able to download a new client, and install it, and [...]

• Black Friday, the Music Video

  19 Apr 2011

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