- A recent dust-up between high stakes player Jason Mo and the folks over at PokerNews addresses a topic that both interests the community and has deeper implications to the industry as a whole.
- WSOP Vice President of Corporate Communications Seth Palansky takes some time out of his busy schedule to sit down with Aaron Todd to discuss the recent release of the 2016 WSOP schedule and some of the policy changes implement for this year.
Speaking Up About High-Stakes Thieves
A recent dust-up between high stakes player Jason Mo and the folks over at PokerNews addresses a topic that both interests the community and has deeper implications to the industry as a whole.
Mo raises some valid points about the publishing of an op/ed by PokerNews in which high-profile player Phil Galfond outs a person he alleges “scammed” him out of $250,000. However, he seems to have a fundamental lack of understanding of the media business as a whole, and in particular the poker media business.
Mo illustrates this disconnect by referring to PokerNews as a “public media source” and by defining “PokerNews’ job” as “a live hand history parser.”
Though there have been a few article written on the topic, the best coverage can be found on Joey Ingram’s Poker Life. Mo appears twice, once in a debate with well-known poker media member Remko Rinkema, and Ingram also has a separate episode where PokerNews Editor in Chief, Donnie Peters, addresses the issue.
