Online Poker

Would PokerStars in NJ Have Been a Slam Dunk?

A lot of people have been speculating about how the New Jersey market would have been shaped if PokerStars would have received a license to operate in the state. Most of the speculation…

Game Back On(Line) at WSOP

Back when I penned my first poker blog post nearly 10 years ago I had absolutely no idea where it would lead. At the time my only agenda was to document what I was learning playing…

Online Poker in 2013

Several years ago I wrote a couple of articles about the gap between online poker software and what players had come to expect from other, non-poker related, products. You can scan over…

Black Friday, Affiliates, and New Markets

While the impact on poker players and poker operators has been well documented not only in the poker community but also in the mainstream media, not a lot has been said about how…

Zynga Real Money Poker: Hype or Reality?

Anybody who has been reading this site for a while may remember that I've written about Zynga real money poker in the past. Originally, I wanted to dispel the idea that Zynga was…

Guaranteed Solution To Stop Sharks From Eating Sports Book Fish

Don't offer poker!!! Really. It's that simple. Most sports books offer poker to their customers as a way to keep players from discovering other poker sites. They understand the tendency…

Jonas Odman, VP of Bodog Network and Anonymous Tables

I just got done reading Inside Poker Business' interview with Bodog VP, Jonas Odman and I really thought it was very interesting. Mostly because Bodog reveals their true motives for…

No Fight At All

I was reading a post on SpartanFox by Mark Gahagan which was pretty good but it had one big item that I disagree with. Gahagan discusses the war against better players that some sites…

Getting a Fair Game in Online Poker

The other day, myself, Kim Lund, and Taylor Caby on Twitter talking about Bodog's Patrick Selin's remarks in a recent interview where he referred to winning players as "sharp players."…

Is Zynga Ready For Real Money Poker?

Despite having already written a post about why I don't think Zynga will be a major player in the post-US legalization world , I still get asked by people what I think about the company.…

Who to Blame for Black Friday?

One of the things people have been reluctant to address is who is to blame for Black Friday and its aftermath. Well, I've done a little investigation and I can say with certainty I know…

What You Could Buy With the $150 Million Full Tilt Owes Players

Three Outstanding Blog Posts

If Full Tilt's response to the Phil Ivey lawsuit has done anything it is that it has made people hate Full Tilt even more. In just one paragraph Full Tilt has managed to obliterate their…

The PPA is Spiraling Out of Control

It is in times of trouble that you truly learn the nature of people (or organizations). Since Black Friday I think we've seen the character of a lot of organizations. Stars stepped up to…

Player Account Segregation Explained

There seems to be some confusion about what player account segregation means and how this all plays out in the recent DOJ action seizing bank accounts and poker sites being unable to pay…

Online Poker is Illegal

Online poker is illegal in the US! There, I said it. The PPA is never going to say it. The online poker sites are never going to say it. And many players and industry people have…

Grading the Performance of Indicted Poker Sites

We've had a few weeks to see how each of the indicted online poker sites would handle themselves in a crisis and I think it's been long enough that one can grade their performance. Below…

Interesting Black Friday Links to Share

Wanted to show a little link love to some people who have written some really great stuff recently. First off, Dr. Pauly (don't call him Paul) has a bit of a rant about PokerStars…

Do Some Promotions Violate Lottery Laws?

I was just thinking about this the other day but I remember some poker rooms running promotions where you earned tickets and then those tickets would enter you into drawings for prizes.…

F-Train's Analysis - A Search for a Victim

I was reading F-Train's analysis of the charges brought against Stars, Tilt, and Cereus and while 90% of the time I think he's dead-on, this time I think he's letting his emotions get in…