One of the few assets held by the failed Federated Sports + Gaming that people assigned any value to was the Global Poker Index, a patent-pending formula for ranking the best tournament poker players in the world. The Global poker Index (GPI), along with the Heartland Poker TourRead Full Article

It would appear that people may have jumped the gun in saying that the Heartland Poker Tour’s original ownership, All-In Productions, got the short-end of the stick after selling their prized possession to the Epic Poker League’s parent company Federated Sports + Gaming, which later went belly-up, owingRead Full Article

In our most recent Friday Wrap, one of the stories we touched on was the Epic Poker League’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing, which Cardplayer Magazine pored over for a hard-hitting expose on how the EPL (controlled by Federated Sports + Gaming) was operating before and after the filing.Read Full Article

On Tuesday the parent company of the Epic Poker league, Federated Sports + Gaming, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The move was announced on the company’s website by one of the principles involved in the Epic Poker League, Jeffrey Pollack. While not a shock to most of theRead Full Article

Wednesday night the QuadJacks.com podcast Michael Divita was able to tell his side of the story regarding his disqualification from the Epic Poker League Main Event over a 1991 conviction that landed Divita on the Sex Offender Registry. Divita is not an Epic Poker League cardholder, and wonRead Full Article

The Epic Poker League has nearly reached the end of its first ever event.  Jeffrey Pollack is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Federated Sports and Gaming, the company that owns the EPL.  He was gracious enough to take a few minutes and talk with us about theRead Full Article

With High buy-in, rake-free, money-added, tournaments the Epic Poker League is trying to do things differently when it comes to tournament poker, and now it seems they are also trying to shake up the ranking system which has been dominated by BLUFF Magazine and Card Player Magazine overRead Full Article

While the poker world is presently focused almost entirely on the WSOP Main Event, it should be noted that we are less than a month away from the kickoff of the Epic Poker League.  While the league is touting itself as the PGA Tour of the poker world,Read Full Article

On Monday, Federated Sports and Gaming released their Season One roster of 218 players.  In addition, the criteria for earning a tour card was also released.  Player can earn their tour card up until August 1st of this year for Season One. For inclusion into the league, theRead Full Article