Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu has been on the warpath against Full Tilt Poker in recent weeks, notably singling out Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, and Ray Bitar, and his words have left little to the imagination when it comes to Daniel’s true feelings about the trio. Terms like baseball bat and groin, scumbags, shameful little weasels, and hoping they may have to bunk withRead Full Article

If a recent Twitter exchange is to be believed, there are apparently two more young poker pros who are trying to prove that the life of a professional poker player makes you tough. Daniel “jungleman12” Cates and high-stakes British poker pro Andrew Feldman are seemingly trying to arrange a fight of some sorts at the upcoming World Series of Poker based on the followingRead 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 names that use the combination of the words “Poker” and “Strategy”. The brouhaha began in early 2011Read Full Article

According to a report on PokerFuse.com there seems to be some grievances between the larger poker rooms on the iPoker Network and some of the smaller skins on the network. According to PokerFuse.com, the iPoker Network is considering splitting the network into two separate entities, where the flagship poker rooms on the network will break-away from the rest of the network. Details on theRead Full Article

If a report at PokerFuse.com is correct, it seems the US government is not done harassing online poker sites just yet. According to an unnamed source at the Everleaf Poker Network skin Minted Poker, the network (one of the few remaining in the US market) will be announcing its withdrawal from both the US and France markets. The move comes after the Everleaf PokerRead Full Article

Daniel Negreanu is never afraid to tell it like it is (he admits as much quite often) and this was no more evident than in his most recent blog post at www.fullcontactpoker.com where he both clarified and expounded on some of his recent comments in an interview with pokerplayer.co.uk that ruffled more than a few feathers around the poker world (comments which I wholeheartedlyRead Full Article

It appears that Subject: Poker isn’t the only online poker site that has been receiving some inside information on the Full Tilt Poker sale to Groupe Bernard Tapie, as the website WickedChops Poker is reporting that a source close to the company claims that the re-launch of Full Tilt Poker is expected to happen on March 1, 2012. While this in itself is notRead Full Article

It appears all of last week’s talk about Chris Ferguson single-handedly holding up the sale of Full Tilt Poker to Groupe Bernard Tapie (a deal being brokered by the United States Department of Justice) was off the mark, as it came to light today that player loans from Full Tilt Poker to certain owners, sponsored players, and other individuals, is actually the main stickingRead Full Article

There aren’t many players that have been more important to Norwegian poker than two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Thor Hansen. On Tuesday the poker world was saddened to hear the news that the 64 year-old has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The news has come via the 2+2 poker forum and on a number of Twitter accounts, although it has yet toRead Full Article

I suppose if I was beaten and tied-up in my house, and over the course of the next few weeks won over $1.2 million I might go out looking for trouble –trying to replicate my beat-down run-good—which is precisely what Jonathan Duhamel seems to have done after a second place finish in the PCA High-Roller tournament – although we still haven’t gotten Duhamel’s versionRead Full Article