The online poker world was dealt a losing hand this summer. Referred to as Black Friday, June 29th marked the day online Poker came to a screeching halt in the United States. The FBI arrested the top executives from three of the biggest online poker sites (PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker/UltimateBet) and seized the [...]

In what has come to be known to online poker players as Black Friday, on April 15 the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) Southern District of New York seized the websites of the three largest Internet poker sites, issued indictments for some eleven individuals and effectively shut down the online poker games in the [...]

Social Media Mixed with Chilli Poker With the advent of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, it was probably just a matter of time before a real money, online poker site would figure out a way to integrate the two products.  After all, Facebook’s Zynga Poker software is still the site’s most successful [...]