I don’t know who the first person was who claimed online poker was rigged, but I’m pretty sure they’re older than the Baby Jesus. Unfortunately, the ubiquitous wolf-criers and Chicken Littles have turned any claim that online poker is “rigged” into a bad joke in the eyes of many people. While the vast majority of [...]

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 [...]

This morning I saw a post on pocketfives where someone claims they just received an audit notice from the IRS. They say they did everything they were supposed to do (filed quarterly estimates and reported the income) and they still got an audit notice from the IRS. A year ago I realized that a major [...]