Author: John Mehaffey

Seals With Clubs Chairman to Fight Nevada Charges The Nevada Attorney General announced charges against Bryan Micon, Chairman of Seals With Clubs, earlier this year.  Micon was charged with operating an unlicensed online poker site in Nevada after a raid of his Las Vegas home.  Micon vowed to fight the charges, going so far as […]

Negative Ad Campaign Against PokerStars Stars in California The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians started a negative ad campaign against PokerStars in California this week.  The commercials are currently airing on radio stations in the state.  The advertisements take shots at the involvement of PokerStars in Black Friday and an insider trading probe.  It also […]

WSOP.com Reload Bonus WSOP.com is offering a 100% up to $1,000 reload bonus to players in Nevada and New Jersey. The bonus releases at a rate of $10 for every $10 in rake and tournament fees paid. This equals 20% rakeback. The offer is available between now and July 14. Players have 60 days to […]

Sportsbook.com End Poker Affiliate Program A site ending its affiliate program may not normally be news to players, but the situation at Commission Account is different.  The affiliate program that includes PlayersOnly, Sportsbook.com, and SuperBook, ended its affiliate program for poker players. Affiliate programs are typically scaled back when a site has financial difficulties.  These […]

Carbon Poker Payouts Improve Slightly Carbon Poker has improved payouts to players. U.S. players are reporting cashouts processed during mid February during the past week. Withdrawals are running about 10 weeks to U.S. players. Bank wires are processed to players outside the U.S. These are available in about three weeks. Carbon Poker Drops Affiliate Program […]

Merge Gaming Cashout Speeds Improve More players are reporting withdrawals from Carbon Poker and other Merge Gaming sites.  Withdrawal speeds appear to be in the 8-10 week range, down from 10-12 weeks.  Affiliates are also reporting processed payments.  While this is great news, we still feel that more payments need to be made before we […]

Merge Gaming Drops Skrill Merge Gaming stopped processing withdrawals via Skrill.  This was the most popular and often only option for players outside North America.  Some players had been waiting up to one month for a withdrawal, only to receive an email notifying them that the withdrawal was canceled.  Players expecting Skrill withdrawals were only […]

Lock Poker Finally Closes After more than one year of accepting deposits from players and not paying anyone, Lock Poker finally closed its scam poker site. The poker and casino servers have been down for more than one week. The site stopped paying most players late in 2012.  For the next two and a half […]

Americas Cardroom CEO: Daily Fantasy Sites Unregulated Like Poker Sites Americas Cardroom CEO Phil Nagy published a post on the company blog comparing his business to the exploding daily fantasy sports industry.  According to Nagy, daily fantasy sites face the same problem that offshore poker rooms so.  They are not properly licensed and regulated. Pokerfuse […]

Lock Poker’s Last Payout More Than One Year Ago Lock Poker has not paid any player since April 2, 2014, as first reported by USPoker.com.  Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the Lock Poker scam’s last payout.  Remarkably, the deposit-only site continues to operate with the blessing of its regulator, Curacao eGaming.  The site […]