I can’t say I’m very surprised to hear it, but today it became official. Neteller is rolling over to save itself from the headache and expense of a fight with the DOJ. Neteller issued a press release today. The lowlights are the following: The discussions between [Neteller's] legal advisers and the USAO are ongoing. [Neteller] [...]

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 [...]

Recently, a long-time member of the Las Vegas poker community posted a question in several public forums about cheating. He saw a Google ad on my site for an organization selling some “Cheating” software for poker. I saw those ads too, and I submitted them immediately to Google so that they wouldn’t display. Google selects [...]