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The poker world was shocked by the news that during a rafting trip in Oregon with some close friends, poker superstar Phil Laak suffered major injuries including broken bones in his wrist and elbow, as well as facial lacerations, when he crashed his ATV on Thursday.  
Laak was treated at a local hospital and is recovering [...]

One of the more recent scandals that shook the online poker world dealt with collusion, and unlike the strategic –some would say soft-collusion– that took place in the StoxTrader scandal, in this case the players’ involved shared information and weren’t looking for a small added edge; these players were actively looking to cheat other players [...]

While nowhere near the level of the Super-User scandals, or some of the other cheating scandals in the history of online poker, the Nick ‘StoxTrader” Grudzien incident is perhaps one of the most shameful in online poker history, not only because the offending players was a solid winner with a huge reputation in and away [...]

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the early days of multi-accounting, where poker players were exploiting loopholes that existed in the online Poker Room’s software, allowing them to create multiple accounts and enter the same tournament with these accounts. Despite poker sites closing this loophole, players are still multi-accounting to gain an edge [...]

Multi-accounting is when a player opens a second -sometime 3rd, 4th, 5th and more-account on the same online poker site. Multi-accounting is one of the most widespread forms of cheating in online poker for the simple reason that it’s incredibly easy to do, and 90% of people who open multiple accounts do so for reasons [...]

The first hand of online poker was dealt by Planet Poker in January of 1998, and since that fateful hand millions of poker players around the globe, and hundreds of online poker sites have become part of the early history of online poker. Unfortunately, online poker’s history is riddled with individual cheaters, angle-shooters, and collusion [...]

Since there are many different reasons for a person to be hated -anything from being dull to being a cheat-I’ll give a quick explanation about my list and the criteria that I used to determine who the lucky 10 poker players would be:
First off, pretty much any type of behavior can land you on this [...]

You would think it would be a two horse race between PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker when it comes to which online poker site has the best stable of sponsored poker players, but there is a third and fourth site that are doing a good job of staying competitive with the two online poker giants. [...]

It’s been an interesting year for online poker in regards to cheating and scandals. On the one hand there have been a number of incidents including several incidents at major online poker rooms.
First there was a large group -rumored to be several dozen players-of online poker players in China were caught colluding at PokerStars in [...]

Not too long ago -in a time before the terms Hole-Card Cam, Online Qualifier, and Moneymaker were part of the poker vernacular-poker players yearned for sponsorships, and the idea of businesses sponsoring players and tournaments was considered a way to save the game. Well, we are now in the era of sponsorship, but it just [...]