Site Moving to Pokercentric.com
To better reflect the content, I am moving all my poker-related work to http://www.pokercentric.com, and you can check that out for all your poker-related needs. This site will be taken down at the end of April then relaunched as a [...]
Epic Madness
(Authors Note: Two segments (the intro and What Went Wrong?) were written on Wednesday 3/14, before the Cardplayer vs FS+G media fracas. I’ve kept them unaltered for a couple reasons, and I promise I addressed that part of the news [...]
Poker Report Card: Week of March 11, 2012
As I am sure at least some of you are still recovering from the alcohol-fest that was St. Patrick’s Day, I will do my best to not rock the boat too much today. Fortunately, there wasn’t anything earth shattering this [...]
Poker Report Card: Week of March 4, 2012
I dont think I could have expected some of the stories I will talking about this week, not by a long shot. The only time I expected to cover Ray Bitar, for instance, was when he was inevitably found [...]
Poker Report Card: Week of February 26, 2012
Author Note: All my work on the “Winners and Losers” column has been put on hold pending the possible restructuring of FS+G. So as to not get out of practice/make myself look available for future work/keep busy, I have decided [...]
Epic…Something Bad
If you haven’t heard yet, Epic Poker’s parent company Federated Sports and Gaming announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an attempt to reorganize and get back on track. The company, which owns the Epic Poker League, the Heartland [...]
A Couple Brief Thoughts on Jason Somerville
I finally got around to reading Jason Somerville’s “coming out” blog post, which fittingly came out on Valentine’s Day, and I couldn’t help but get a little annoyed. Not because a well-respected pro came out as gay, but because he [...]
I Get Paid For This?!: Week of January 29, 2012
It seems every week I declare someone a winner, they just flip back down to loser the very next week. I say this now because I did it to Phil Galfond in this week’s column due to his monster downswing. [...]
Top “Independent” Poker News Sources
The word “independent” got tossed around in earnest back in mid-2011 when coverage of Black Friday, at least at first glance, appeared to be way less critical than it should have given the circumstances. In fact, many outlets proceeded to [...]
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