After seizure of one of their domains and a raid on their Costa Rican headquarters, the company that owns Absolute Poker and UB.com has denied rumors that it will be declaring bankruptcy, but has confirmed liquidating its staff. Among the casualties of Black Friday are the staff of UB.com and Absolute Poker, their parent company […]

Absolute Poker obviously takes the World Series of Poker very seriously, as evidenced by the massive promotion, or multi-promotion really, that it’s holding in honor of the rapidly approaching Series 2011. Head to Absolute Poker starting March 6, 2011 and you can get a head start on the coming World Series of Poker 2011 excitement. […]

The US government has finally put some bite behind its bark, shutting down three of the biggest poker sites online: Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker. We don’t usually dedicate much space in these pages to bad news, but sometimes in order to report the most relevant events in online gambling to its […]

SmartLive Gaming has just announced that it is about to roll out a brand new VIP scheme for its poker site, SmartLive Poker, with increased rewards for all its participants. The VIP rewards at SmartLive Poker are about to get a whole lot bigger and better. SmartLive is still being light on details in describing […]

Brent Beckley, the 31- year-old co-founder of the now-defunct Absolute Poker has plead guilty to charges of criminal bank fraud. Last Tuesday, December 20, 2011, one of the online poker execs charged in the year’s earlier federal seizure dubbed Black Friday, Brent Beckley of Absolute Poker, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of U.S. bank fraud. […]

Recent updates on the dread day in poker history now known as Black Friday, include Poker Stars beginning to pay out US players, Full Tilt’s US player funds still in limbo, indictments, and 5 sites expressing that they still serve US players. To catch you up if you haven’t heard, the US Federal government, specifically […]