Tonight I switched hosting for notedpokerauthority.com. This hosting should be more reliable and not experience the periods of slowness that the other host had some problems with. I also upgraded the blog software, so there might be a few bugs here and there. Let me know if something is screwy. In addition, it can take [...]

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I just wanted to share a little of my morning paranoia. So I know that despite my protestations, a number of online poker players still don’t plan to report their play on their taxes. I frankly think that it’s an enormous risk to take, and I fully [...]

Matt Maroon thinks we should all calm down a bit. I agree. Honestly, I think people are blowing a lot of the recent happenings enormously out of proportion. A few years ago, poker got really, really lucky, and a crazy idea called the World Poker Tour captured people’s imaginations and became the “new big thing.” [...]

Poker players are abuzz lately with the news that two Neteller execs were arrested on money laundering charges. The feds’ position: “Internet gambling is a multibillion-dollar industry,” Mark Mershon, assistant director-in-charge of the New York FBI office, said in a statement. “A significant portion of that is the illegal handling of Americans’ bets with offshore [...]

As some of you may know, I’m working on a book project with Matt Flynn and Sunny Mehta. It is presently (possibly subject to change) a two volume work titled Professional No Limit Hold ‘em. Matt and Sunny are the main authors, and I’m playing the role of the glue that holds the project together. [...]