You know what pisses me off? Cardplayer?

For a number of reasons. They try and pass themselves off as the main source for poker news (since no news source publishes anything poker related unless its main stream news, like a WSOP ME winner) but all of their news "articles" are clearly biased, one would assume because of advertising dollars.

Things like the AP and UB scandals get little to no coverage, at most they post the straight from the source press release from AP/UB and leave it at that, forget actually doing any legitimate research or journalism on the topic. Half of their posts are clearly advertisements and spam for their affiliations with the sites they're reporting on, like a Cake article they posted yesterday:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news...equent-players

The article is basically advertisement for Cake, and then the link at the bottom has a Cardplayer affiliate URL, obviously Cardplayer is getting something out of this. I mean, its one thing to have a bonus section or something, but for a published magazine to try and pass that off as actual news is just annoying.

And pretty much all of their other articles are tournament recaps, tournament info, more tournament related interviews, tournament crap, etc etc etc. Not everyone in the world loves tournaments, even though yes its probably what the majority of half hearted poker fans follow. But they have little to no online poker content, cash game content.

It just bothers me. They have the resources and name brand to be a big news source but instead they just collect advertising dollars and dont publish anything with any real substance. 2+2 and other forums/affiliate sites are the only places with unbiased opinions these days it seems.

I guess there shouldnt have been another question mark after Cardplayer in the title, but you get the idea, haha.

Good post Donovan. I have not noticed this as clearly as you have. Although, I might be a bit more desensitized as a web marketer.

I went and looked at their current poker news page and I can definitely see where you are coming from.

Regarding the AP/UB scandals Cardplayer must be in an interesting position and obviously their main concern is $$. They do not want to lose any ad revenue in their magazine from UB/AP. Which shows the true integrity of the company.

I guess it depends on what you're expecting. Back in the day I used to love cardplayer magazine but it was mostly to keep me busy between playing live hands of poker. As far as their website was concerned I never used it for anything other than the hand calculator.

When online poker was new I read a lot of articles on PokerPages.com, I haven't done so in forever. Then when databases came out I initially used the Hendon Mobs DB, but now I also use bluff and pokerpages when researching for the purpose of writing an article. For online poker databases I used Sharkscope for SNGs and thepokerdb for MTTs.

I've always found the online version of Cardplayer to offer something I could get somewhere else, so never really would consider them a news source and therefor would not get pissed off over the content or w/e.

As far as AP/UB, its lonely being in the group that takes seriously their unethical business practices. Don't plan on many sites removing them anytime soon.

I mean look at the top 2 stories on Cardplayer right now:

Absolute Poker Offering Up to 100 Percent Reload Bonus

UltimateBet RAI$E Program Gives Money for Points

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What a load of crap, both are blatant advertisement instead of news, and for the two biggest sleaze ball sites in poker. If I had a cardplayer subscription right now I'd cancel it.

My subscription ran out about a year ago. I did not renew. Havent really missed it.

Originally Posted by juniormint11

My subscription ran out about a year ago. I did not renew. Havent really missed it.

Yeah magazine subscriptions get really old really fast. They start to repeat the same stories in different words after a while.