Early Tuesday morning I happened across an article on CalvinAyre.com stating that Bodog.com had been seized by the Department of Homeland Security. While I was initially intrigued that there might be a story lurking, my initial thought proved correct: “Isn’t Bodog.com a dormant domain name?” The Bodog.com domainRead Full Article

Since deciding to leave the US market after their main payment processor ran afoul of the US Government, the Everleaf Poker Network has issued their first public statement on the matter, clarifying precisely what occurred, and why US players have yet to receive their account balances. In October,Read Full Article

One of the largest online poker affiliates, PokerStrategy.com, has been the subject of two threads on the website PokerAffiliateListings.com (one recent, and one about a year old) where other users have alleged the massive online poker portal is using strong-arm tactics in order to secure certain domain namesRead Full Article

With all of the new efforts at the state level, as well as new advocates at the federal level, the poker community has been overly optimistic that an online poker bill will be attached to a larger piece of legislation in 2012. One of the proposed pieces ofRead Full Article

On Friday, former Pennsylvania Governor and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge wrote an editorial for the Washington Examiner along with former FBI Director Louis Freeh to make the case for online gaming legislation at the federal level. The two men are not simply spouting off acrossRead Full Article

Senator John Boozman (R-AR) penned a letter on Facebook aimed at quelling the enormous amount of comments he has been receiving from the online poker community. The letter, which can be interpreted as either an olive branch to the pro-poker advocates, or as a sleight of hand aimedRead Full Article

In an interview in Las Vegas, Nevada ahead of this month’s Republican Primary in the state, Mitt Romney gave online poker players a glimpse at how a Romney administration would handle the sticky issue of online gaming in the US; he is against it. Romney’s stance on onlineRead Full Article

One of the first lessons you learn at the poker tables is that patience is a virtue; for two brothers and a cousin returning to the US from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas this lesson appears to have gone unlearned. 18 year-old Sean Ruane ofRead Full Article

Three years after the doors were completely blown off the Super-User scandals taking place at Ultimate Bet Poker a group of eight players has decided to file RICO charges against the site’s parent company Exscapa Software. The eight players were some of the biggest players at the siteRead Full Article

The brazen daytime home invasion, assault, and robbery of 2010 World Series of Poker Champion Jonathan Duhamel in his home outside of Montreal seems to have captivated the Canadian Press thanks to the twists and turns, wild testimony by the defendants, and conspiratorial actions of Duhamel’s ex-girlfriend BiancaRead Full Article