After Black Friday online poker sites where starting t get bad press with stories coming out like the Full Tilt scandal. However, where Full Tilt had been taking money from players, Lock Poker decided to give back this Christmas. Lock Poker heard about a small Christmas tournament getting played in a small town called Omagh in Northern Ireland. This was a one off tournamentRead Full Article

Starting Monday night, Kathy Liebert and BJ Nemeth are starting a $200 prop bet that requires the two not to tweet for an undetermined amount of time.  The bet arose after a week of Liebert regularly tweeting about football online.  Nemeth is known for overuse of twitter during arguments as well, and so the bet was born. Neither of the two are permitted toRead Full Article

Last week, Congress conducted a hearing regarding online poker.  One of the main concerns brought up repeatedly in the hearing was consumer protection.  It was agreed by everyone that consumer protection needed to be one of the top priorities of any bill passed by Congress.  With that in mind, here are three consumer protections that I believe need to be in place once onlineRead Full Article

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled Let’s Recruit the Potheads to Save Online Poker.  I pointed out in that article that potheads outnumbered us 101,792 to around 7,000.   Now that a couple of weeks have passed, I thought I would check in and see how our petition is doing and see if our cause has picked up a significant number of supporters.Read Full Article

Last week, Full Tilt announced that it had reached an acquisition agreement with Group Bernard Tapie.  Since that time, various information has been released either through lawyers or directly from Bernard Tapie in the form of interviews.  Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly from the potential Full Tilt sale. The Good – Players Will Be Repaid if Deal Goes Through “WeRead Full Article

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that on Tuesday, the United States Department of Justice issued a modified civil complaint that included Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, and Rafe Furst.  Furthermore, it was revealed that Full Tilt not only had a shortfall of funds for U.S. players, but for all players worldwide. What is now being referred to as a PonziRead Full Article

Annie Duke appeared on the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on Monday to hype both her new book and the Epic Poker League.  During that interview, when asked whether poker was illegal, she made the statement of “only online.”   Since then, there has been a ton of speculation why she said that and here are a few of my thoughts regarding her statement.Read Full Article

On Friday Lock Poker announced the signing of its newest member to their sponsored player roster known as Team LockPRO Elite: Spanish sensation, and last woman standing in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Leo Margets. The signing of Margets comes on the heels of the Lock Poker securing the services of one of the best known online poker players in theRead Full Article

The 2011 World Series of Poker took a chance this year and added Badugi to the 10-Game Mix Event.  They also reinstated the $2,500 Omaha 8/Stud 8 Event.  While the WSOP is always the one place in of poker where you can consistently find more games than just No-Limit Hold’em, there is always room for improvement.  The following are some games that I wouldRead Full Article

One of two things happened on Monday when it was revealed that ten more online gaming sites had their domain names seized by the DOJ including two small online poker rooms: Either the DOJ specifically targeted TruePoker and DoylesRoom despite the fact that the investigation would likely cost much more than these sites could ever pay in fines, or TruePoker and DoylesRoom were simplyRead Full Article