Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 06, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Poker news is really no different from mainstream news; each website has their own biases, gets their advertising money from specific sources, and is predicated on access –access to players, to press releases and information, and most importantly access to affiliate partnerships with online poker rooms. Recently weRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 25, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

A pair of op-eds that I’ve read today has given me pause to think about the current online poker economy, and what can be done to strengthen it in the future. Jeff Hwang started the conversation at The Motley Fool, where he wrote a lengthy piece about onlineRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 20, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

There is quite a bit of news on the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet Poker front, and I’m not even referring to the liquidation of the sites in order to repay their players a small percentage of what they are owed by the sites after Black Friday. No,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 01, 2012 Posted in Interviews | 4 Comments »

During the 2012 World Series of Poker, Scott Bell appeared on the QuadJacks.com podcast to discuss a full-length, documentary film he is working on detailing the Ultimate Bet Super-User scandal. The film has a working title of UltimateBeat: Too Much to Lose. Scott Bell, better known by hisRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 25, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There was a lot going on at the 2012 World Series of Poker. From the controversies and complaints, to David “ODB” Baker’s Ben Lambish performance, to the Big One for One Drop tournament, to Phil Hellmuth’s 12th bracelet, to Phil Ivey’s five final tables in two weeks: ItRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Along with Haley Hintze, perhaps no name is more synonymous with the Ultimate Bet Super User scandal than ElevenGrover (the 2+2 poker forum screen-name of Scott Bell). The two have been the most ardent investigators of the Super-User scandals that rocked the online poker from about 2006 throughRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 10, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Sunday is shaping up to be a big day, as both Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth are flirting with another final table, and another WSOP bracelet, which you can read about here, but this column is supposed to bring you the side-stories at the WSOP and today’s installmentRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 14, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Monday the world’s #1 3-D poker room, PKR Poker, announced the creation of the Poker Wiki. The Poker Wiki is a Wikipedia-like website strictly for poker (longtime Internet users will likely bed familiar with other Wiki’s out there like the Star Wars wiki, Wookiepedia) that will relyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 26, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

According to a report at www.PocketFives.com Absolute Poker and UB Poker players may indeed be repaid by the soon to be liquidated sites… but only to the tune of about 20% of their account balances. According to the article, “Two reliable sources close to Absolute Poker and UBRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 01, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Yesterday news broke that a high stakes German poker player was accused of scamming over two dozen players out of at least $2 million by installing Trojan Horse software on players’ computers that allowed him to have access to the person’s hole-card information. According to the German websiteRead Full Article