Daily Poker News Review: Thursday, June 26, 2014 Daily Poker News Review: Thursday, June 26, 2014

Main Headlines

Nutblocker Silver VIP Content Now Available Using Bitcoin

Nutblocker.com, an online poker rakeback and forum website, has begun offering its Silver VIP content to individuals who wish to purchase it using Bitcoins. It is believed to be the first major online poker training site to offer Bitcoin as a payment option.

  • It is believed to be the first major online poker training site to offer Bitcoin as a payment option.
  • The content was previously available only to the website’s members who had generated a minimum of $800 in rakeback with the online poker site affiliate.
  • As an incentive to those who wish to gain access to the poker strategy article archive, Nutblocker has promised to add more content to its Silver VIP members in the future.

Jesse McEuen Wins WSOP Gold

Melissa Burr becomes the first woman to cash in the $50k Poker Players Championship event.

  • Highlights of the day’s action at the WSOP.

Picks from F5 Poker:

Phil Ivey’s Drive To Save The Poker World

Raymond Davis recalls the moments before Ivey faced Beal. Remko Rinkema from PokerNews is still #storyhunting for tales of Phil Ivey and this time he locked up Raymond David to tell the tale of what happened right before Ivey, legendarily, put it all on the line against businessman Andy Beal.


F5Poker Hard At Work

Maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. It’s a rough life back at the World Series of Poker.

Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:

H1 2014: Top Five Traffic Barometer

After six months PokerStars continues its dominance, but from a relative view partypoker has been the best performer of 2014. In a few days the year will be half over, and the top five global poker rooms will be looking forward to the end of declining revenues as the market begins to bottom out.


Bankrupt Thief Leads to Money Laundering Lesson for Bet365

UKGC reports on lessons learned for anti-money laundering compliance after an investigation of Bet365. The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has published a public statement, “Shortcomings in anti-money laundering and social responsibility controls, Hillside (New Media) Limited (bet365).”


The Deal

Promotional highlights of the week, including WSOP, Svenska Spel, Bovada, PokerStars, 888poker and Winamax. WSOP New Jersey Runs “Five Seat Scramble” to the WSOP Main Event

Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:


Training Video: Search and Destroy 2: John Part 4 – Checked to In Position Deuces Cracked

When calling a raise in position, we often expect the preflop raiser to bet and act accordingly. In this video, Josh and John take a look at a few hands where the preflop raiser elected to check. How does this effect our play?


Training Video: Mentor: threads13 – 4-tabling $25 Review – Part 1 Deuces Cracked

threads13 reviews the first of 3 videos from a 4-tabling $25NL session from a DeucesCracked subscriber. Featuring discussion about hand reading at the micros, building a solid gameplan and how to think about hand ranges in the moment.


Training Video: Mattraq1 & RyPac13: $10 Turbo On WSOP.com HUSNG


Reviewed in this new video from Mattraq1 and RyPac13 is a $10 turbo HUSNG played on WSOP.com, the real money legal Nevada site. Mattraq takes the helm while Ryan asks questions. In addition to the structure and software, the two also talk about Matt’s decisions in this game, including playing vs an aggressive unknown opponent, going over Mattraq’s early, somewhat conservative strategy vs this opponent, and then finding spots to open up and play back.