Just a few weeks after Ongame launched their proprietary "Ongame Essence" formula Bodog changed their formula as well. The new Bodog formula would appear to be based on the same concept as Ongame Essence.

Bodog has been very public this year about their opinion of rakeback. Jonas Odman, Vice President of the Bodog Network, wrote this article earlier this year. It took until June for Bodog to make their first anti rakeback strike. On June 15th Bodog stopped allowing new players ...

It was discovered today that the Ultimatebet.com domain now redirects to Depositbonus.com. Ultimate Bet decided to rebrand themselves as UB.com earlier this year. Recently affiliates were told to change their links from Ultimatebet.com to UB.com. While the understanding was affiliates had 90 days to make this change it appears now that wasn't the case. Any link that points to Ultimatebet.com now redirects to this Depositbonus.com site regardless of whether it is an affiliate link or not. If ...

Editor's Note: This is part II of III in my introduction story. Check out part I here.

What other sites offer bonuses? All of them? Oh wow! Over the next few months, I would sign up for accounts at sites such as Empire Poker, PokerRoom, Ultimate Bet, Absolute Poker, PokerStars, Interpoker, Poker Plex and Pacific Poker – basically any site that was on BonusWhores or that I saw advertised on Twoplustwo or Cardplayer. By the middle of 2004, my quickly expanding poker room portfolio was ...

Yesterday Blanca Games announced that they acquired the Cereus Network. It would seem most would embrace a shakeup at Cereus to give players familiar with their cheating scandals a chance to trust them again. It certainly seems like a good strategy to me. I decided to do some more digging into who exactly Blanca Games is.

Their CEO Stuart Gordon is involved with Bingo Mania. According to their website they have been in business since 1996. I was unable to find anything bad about ...

I started playing poker when I was 16. Since then poker has either supplemented my income or it has been my sole income. In 2002 I discovered online poker and by 2003 I was playing full time as my only source of income. By then I had gotten married and started a family. While I had always had dreams of moving to Las Vegas to play poker full time my wife always thought that was a ridiculous idea. No matter how successful I was at online poker and home games she stuck by her stereotype "Las Vegas ...