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 ourRead Full Article

Adam Schwartz, one of the hosts of the 2+2 Poker Podcast, dropped a bombshell via Twitter on Tuesday when he posted: “Heard a rumor that the FTP sale to French investors was done,” Of course Schwartz received a number of responses to this news, but failed to giveRead Full Article

This week Daniel Cates made it official that the Durrrr Challenge is now officially on hold –although virtually everyone who has followed the match between Daniel Cates and Tom Dwan already knew this to be the case. Cates made the announcement via his Twitter account, stating: “Regarding theRead 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 theRead Full Article

After being denied access to Canada, Daniel “jungleman12” Cates is now on his way to Portugal according to his Twitter account. Cates was prepared to move to the Vancouver area last week, but ran into some visa issues as he crossed the US/Canadian border –apparently Cates wasn’t awareRead Full Article

Earlier this week it came to light that Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond had moved to the great white north in order to continue to play online poker, and now it appears that another online poker legend, Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, will be following Galfond to Canada, and more specifically, willRead Full Article

Likely caused by the unrelenting swarms of former Full Tilt Poker trying to get their funds returned –and likely just as many people whose only interest is in pestering Dwan—Tom ‘durrrr” Dwan decided to take to his Twitter account to address his guarantee to return all of theRead Full Article

It was a long day at the Rio as over 1,800 well-rested players returned to continue their quest for poker immortality at the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event after their brief respite on Wednesday. Despite action all over the place, with big name poker pros andRead Full Article

Phil Hellmuth made perhaps his first major misstep of the 2011 World Series of Poker on Monday, as the man leading the Player of the Year race was nearly blinded away after a very late arrival for Day 2a of the WSOP Main Event. Hellmuth is known forRead 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