Poker has rarely received as much glaring attention as it has in 2011, and with the unveiling of online poker’s latest cheating scandal involving Jose “Girah” Macedo, Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates and Haseeb “DogIsHead” Qureshi, it’s never been quite so opaque.With some of the most successful and influential names being associated in this reproach, the news  Read more »

Playing in the storied World Series of Poker Main Event is a dream of nearly any beginning poker player. Winning the event is characteristically the dream of seasoned professionals. However, the biggest event in the history of tournament poker carries a hefty buy-in of $10,000, which is often a price tag that many aspiring players  Read more »

NOTE: If you are a US player, you might want to play against the poker pros at Carbon Poker now!Dan “jungleman12″ Cates often spends most of his time sitting and waiting for opponents to play him at a variety of stakes at heads-up No-Limit Hold’em. While both he and most of his competitors are aware  Read more »

Although “The Great Dane” Gus Hansen has been nearly unstoppable thus far in 2011, he’s encountered a major downswing as of late. The player who finished 2010 near the top of the leaderboard in the wrong category, has recently shown glimpses of his former self by donating nearly $1 million of his profits in 2011  Read more »

This past Monday, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates put in their first session of the New Year for their ongoing online challenge. Jungleman12 managed to extend his lead substantially in the “Durrrr Challenge”, by taking $319,000 from the Team Full Tilt pro early into Tuesday morning.An extended session which managed to make up  Read more »

Although there were several big stories concerning the top professionals in the game in 2010, the hidden gem was definitely Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates.  The online superstar not only finished 2010 with the biggest earnings for online play, but he’s also gained a tremendous amount of notoriety for taking on the world’s best players in the  Read more »

As play continued on early Wednesday morning, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates decided to put in more hours of their continuing online challenge.While the pair has currently completed nearly one-fourth of the match, they managed to put in another 1,400 hands over two and a half hours, which ended in Dwan cutting into  Read more »

This past week, both Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates spent a significant amount of time taking part in their online challenge. While the pair has been busy, they managed to log two consecutive day sessions. While Cates has certainly been in control throughout the early stages of the contest, the two players have  Read more »

Despite the online poker tables being regularly filled with professional players at nearly every level, almost anyone who takes the game seriously recognizes that much of their earnings as a player doesn’t come from world-class opponents. It makes logical sense, that in order to profit from playing a game you need to play against opponents  Read more »

Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates has had a very successful year in many respects. The newly-turned 21 year-old spent the latter part of his year traveling across the United States, spending time with both friends and family while enjoying the liberties of his new-found legality. While the month of December is certainly the time of year where  Read more »