Black Friday and the ramifications from that time still have repercussions today. Several major players in the online poker industry have served jail time and/or paid massive fines for their involvement and the industry in the United States has never recovered. But what happened to the man who “blew the whistle” and essentially brought down […]

According to a Reuters article, Australia’s Daniel Tzvetkoff (pictured), who “cooperated with a broader investigation into online poker sites that led to criminal charges against the owners of Full Tilt, Absolute Poker, and PokerStars,” received no additional jail time in a sentence handed down on Wednesday. He was hit with a $13 million forfeiture for […]

According to an article that appeared in the Courier Mailout of Australia, Black Friday informant Daniel Tzvetkoff (pictured) is likely to avoid any more jail time than the four months he originally served. According to the news site, “Tzvetkoff faced a 75-year sentence in a Federal jail when he was arrested in Las Vegas in […]

According to Chad Holloway at PokerNews, author James Leighton has announced that he is in discussions to sell the movie rights to his book “Alligator Blood.” That book, released in 2013, told the story of Australian Daniel Tzvetkoff (pictured), who rose from middling circumstances to become one of the top payment processors for such online […]