All it took for one of the most prodigious online poker players of all-time to be able to return to the virtual felt after Black Friday was a change of residence –a change of residence that requires a passport that is! Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond is now officially livingRead Full Article

Before we get into the meat of the reporting, let’s keep in mind that this story is coming from Page Six of the New York Post, which amounts to the same type of fact-checking as the National Enquirer. With that “warning” out of the way let’s take aRead Full Article

After being very critical of the PPA’s reaction to Black Friday, as a lobbying group in general, and their efforts to pass online poker legislation, I have to admit that the Poker Players Alliance is finally starting to resemble a legitimate lobbying group in my eyes. Prior toRead Full Article

Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX), best known for his deplorable apology to BP Oil executives in Congress during the hearings into the BP Gulf Oil spill, is the latest supporter of legalizing and regulating online poker. Barton is set to introduce a new piece of legislation that will legalizeRead Full Article

Blanca Games –the parent company of the Cereus Poker Network—issued its second statement in as many days, this time responding to the news that their Costa Rican offices were raided by The Organismo de Investigaciones Judiciales (OIJ), the Costa Rican equivalent of the FBI. The raid comes onRead Full Article

In the least shocking but most disheartening news since Black Friday, Holdem Poker Chat has released a copy of an E-Mail sent to shareholders in Madeira Fjord AS (the parent company of the Cereus Poker Network of Absolute Poker and UB Poker). While I have not seen thisRead Full Article

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is keeping the pressure on Congress thanks to their 1 million plus members sending Congress a blitz of E-Mails, letters and phone calls. To make sure that the poker community does not become complacent, the PPA has just sent out another E-Mail urgingRead Full Article

Early Friday morning Full Tilt Poker sent the following E-Mail message to their real-money online poker players in the United States, not only addressing the state of their current account balances but also rakeback payments where applicable. Here is a look at the message received by Full TiltRead Full Article

A very unpleasant E-Mail arrived in my inbox today from Full Tilt Poker. I was informed that my recent –if you consider October 22nd recent—check withdrawal was cancelled due to an issue with their third-party payment processor: Unfortunately due to an issue with one of our 3rd partyRead Full Article

A new poker documentary is in the works that will take a look at the evolution of online poker through some of its biggest stars. The working title of the documentary is fittingly, BOOM – The Incredible True Story of Online Poker, and is being produced by PokerRead Full Article