For the better part of 2013 –and for some people going back years—Lock Poker has been widely criticized on a number of issues, chief among them the extremely slow withdrawal speed the site has been plagued by. As wait times for checks have stretched from weeks to months the poker world has been asking questions, and questioning the financial solvency of one of the largest US-facing online poker sites.

For the most part these criticisms have been addressed by Lock Poker representative ...

Dear PFO,

I usually don't go complaining about the past, results oriented (haha, remember the OSS 2??). Let's discuss the full in's and out's of my version of what happened...

So who remembers the split between Todd and Bryan during the DonkDown era? I know I do since my first experience of degenerates was right after the inaugural WSOPC at Bossier City. I remember a user named Rollo bringing me in and I was exposed to "Jasep" my first time there.

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It has been a while since i have written a blog entry but i have a few things to talk about.



Since my last blog entry in November i feel like a lot has changed for me mentally. Now don't get me wrong i felt like i was playing well before this, but it feels like in the last 2-3 months my game has started to really come together and i feel like big things are only around the corner for me.


Me and Viktor(my sng coach) have studied and gone through a few ...

PFO,

It's been a while, but yet again... It's a chapter that needs to be covered, and in depth. That would be my two main theorems in poker. One being, "Dodge the hand grenade," the other being, "Suck, Re suck, 3-Sucked."

Let's start off on my favorite....

"Suck, Re suck, 3-Sucked"

In internet poker this is not the exception, it almost 103.5% of the time is the norm. Especially in Lower Limits ($1K and below). You ...

Online poker in the United States has been a sordid affair dating back to the passage of the UIGEA law in 2006. What started as a minor inconvenience –the loss of several online poker room and slower deposit and withdrawal times—gradually became worse and worse. In the aftermath of UIGEA poker players saw their options dry up, and the hoops they had to jump through places higher and higher. This process –which I will liken to Mitt Romney’s “self-deportation” idea, where people’s lives are made so ...