Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 27, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Apparently the recent turning over of some 90,000 documents by former online poker payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff was enough to make Chad Elie rethink his plea and change it from innocent to guilty. Elie is one of two men indicted on Black Friday who was set to standRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 03, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Two of the 11 people named in the Department of Justice’s criminal complaint filed on April 15th, 2011, after the crackdown on online poker sites operating in the United States, were in court Monday. The duo is apparently pinning their hopes on the defense that poker is notRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 10, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After the first two starting days of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event saw sluggish attendance totals –that’s putting it nicely—it was starting to look like the US government’s crackdown on online poker would have a significant impact on the 2011 WSOP… Until Day 1c rolledRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 19, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the ongoing 42nd Annual World Series of Poker setting attendance records in multiple events it would seem that poker is definitely not in its death throes –a major fear after the US government’s crackdown on online poker back in April and May—in fact poker seems to beRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 06, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On a recent episode of the Hardcore Poker Show, Party Poker spokesman and all-around poker magnate Tony G called on the members of Team Full Tilt Poker to guarantee player deposits which he estimated at $100 million. Tony G first spoke on the podcast about the April 15thRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 25, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Since Black Friday forced the three largest online poker rooms in the United States to leave the market, the void has been partially filled by a number of smaller sites and networks that had been plugging along in anonymity prior to the April 15th crackdown by the DOJRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 22, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | 1 Comment »

After this past Friday’s news that the DOJ and FBI would crackdown on online poker in the US, leading to the eventual outcome of a Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars shut down from the US market, there are still a lot of unanswered questions even after a fullRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

We received our first word from PokerStars on Friday evening regarding the day’s events which left the online poker world in absolute bedlam as the Department of Justice and the FBI shut down the three largest online poker rooms serving the US market. In addition to the crackdownRead Full Article