As you have already found out from the usual sarcastic useless one-liner, you are in the wrong forum if you want an intelligent poker discussion. :(
Coles Notes: As JohnnieH may already know, most poker players are more likely to tip after a small cash game pot than after a much bigger tournament cash, ??? so it's pretty scummy of reporter Jay "Whojedi" Newnum to steal at least $700 from the tournament dealers - using chopsticks and tape! Many of his reporter colleagues auto-defended him or even attacked the two people who posted the truth, instead of them following up or publishing the credible story, resulting in a huge backlash from Allen Kessler, Mason Malmuth and many others in the poker community including me.
The best poker media site, Pokerfuse (one of the few independent sites that chronicled the horrible decline of bwin.party) did its investigative journalism duties, dug up the court evidence and
published the facts.
Newnum has since been fired from his upcoming gigs, and has tweeted that
he will "step away from the poker world indefinitely."
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I agree with jontm that it's not easy to be a writer/reporter in the poker industry which is a slave to affiliate and advertising revenue. As anybody can tell, I love writing, but rather than continue writing for
Canadian Poker Player magazine, I'm glad that I'm free to write whatever and whenever I want instead of having to self-censor about what the advertising and affiliate masters may not like.
Players need to keep in mind that these affiliate-driven sites should not be relied upon for unbiased and truthful reporting, which includes Bluff, Pokernews, Card Player, Canada Poker, etc. The following are some of my favourite sites as having the best chance of finding the poker "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth":
1)
Pokerfuse
2) Other affiliate-free, independent sites such as
Quadjacks and
Flushdraw.net
3) Poker forum sites such as 2+2: there are a lot of trolling and useless posts just like here, but there are also a lot of very knowledgeable poker posters, whom you can rely upon to stand up against the bad guys of poker such as UB, AP, FTP, bwin.party, etc. while most of the poker media ignores the problems.