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

I have a few big stories to get to in this installment of the WSOP Notebook, so I’ll forego the preview and the witty remarks here and get right to it. Ivey and Hellmuth headline HORSE Final Table I say this a lot (because it makes good copy)Read Full Article

As the 2012 World Series of poker approaches I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the questions poker players and the poker media will have going into the nearly two-month long summer poker series in Las Vegas. In this installmentRead Full Article

Three years after the doors were completely blown off the Super-User scandals taking place at Ultimate Bet Poker a group of eight players has decided to file RICO charges against the site’s parent company Exscapa Software. The eight players were some of the biggest players at the siteRead Full Article

Just before one of the greatest final table showdowns in World Series of Poker history, where two potential future poker giants Martin Staszko and Pius Heinz clashed in a heads-up battle that lasted over 100 hands, two other poker giants were honored with their induction into the PokerRead Full Article

On her blog this week, poker writer Haley Hintze reported that she has signed a deal with Dimat Publishing to produce a comprehensive book detailing the Super-User scandals from Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet Poker. Since her days as PokerNews.com editor, Hintze has been at the forefront ofRead Full Article

If you want to understand the online poker wars just look back in time to the airline wars, where competing airlines simply offered the same promotion and just kept trying to outdo one another. The latest example is the Cereus Network’s ‘Power Hour’ promotion. Beginning December 1st, AbsoluteRead Full Article