On the heels of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker officially leaving the US market on Wednesday, former players at those sites can no longer take a wait and see approach to see what happens –regardless of how the specifics play out in the cases against PokerStars, Full TiltRead Full Article

On Thursday we finally heard from Absolute Poker, which was the only poker room yet to respond to the seizures and indictments handed down this past Friday by the DOJ and FBI. The statement from Absolute Poker shows them moving in a slightly different direction than PokerStars andRead Full Article

Can you hear the collective sigh of relief coming from card-rooms and home office “balla setups” around the United States? It was announced today that both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have reached an agreement with the US Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York thatRead Full Article

The first plea after the incredible events that took place in the online poker world on Friday has been entered, and it was payment processor Bradley Franzen entering a not guilty plea to a number of charges including money laundering. The 41 year-old Franzen “is president of aRead Full Article

Amidst all of the doom and gloom posts by poker players and those of us in the poker media after the Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars shutdown were a few diamonds in the rough that even during the darkest day in online poker history could bring a smileRead Full Article

US poker players are feeling left out in the cold on Monday morning, European poker players are likely looking at a significant decrease in traffic, and more than likely the top three US online poker rooms are busy putting together a team of expensive defense attorneys, but thereRead Full Article

As the fallout from Friday’s news that the DOJ and FBI had shutdown and seized the domain names of the four largest online poker rooms in the United States continued to roll throughout the night, both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars both made the decision to leave theRead Full Article

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

Not long after PokerStars issued their statement where they basically reinforced the position that their players’ money is safe at the online poker site, Full Tilt Poker came out with their own statement where owner Raymond Bitar –one of the men named in the indictment—was a bit moreRead Full Article

The recently concluded PokerStars North American Poker Tour series held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut was a can’t miss event if you won a title there last year considering the two biggest tournaments of the series were won by the same players who triumphed in themRead Full Article