[PoorSkillz]

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Of course these stories aren't mentioned on Cardplayer.com's home page, nor are they mentioned in the News page. CardPlayer is trying to bury this story to protect their advertiser. CardPlayer sucks and should be boycotted until they start refusing AP advertising and start featuring the AP cheating story .

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While Cardplayer reaches a lot of the poker-playing public, I believe ESPN.com reaches far more of the casual poker-playing demographic who have not yet heard this story. However, ESPN has also, so far, buried this story in their "ESPN Poker Club" section. This may be because of ESPN's business interests involving poker, but with enough pressure, they would probably feature this story on their homepage. And if ESPN still doesn’t bring greater coverage to this story, if enough people report that to ESPN’s ombudsman she may bring this issue up.

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i dont think there is any conspiracy involving ESPN not putting this on their homepage. In all honesty, it shouldn't be on their homepage. What does this have to do with sports? The world series is about to start, college football, so on

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I am not saying that there is a conspiracy, but I am wondering why ESPN does not feature this article on its front page. I agree that poker really isn't a sport, but ESPN has featured numerous poker articles on its home page in the past, and this is arguably the most newsworthy story, up there with the WSOP Main Event's, in poker history.

ESPN definitely does have an interest in the success of poker, both online and not, and this scandal being brought out to the mainstream would definitely hurt online poker's success, at least in the short term. Absolute Poker also advertises on their channels I believe. I was just wondering if it could be business reasons that this story hasn't been posted on the front page yet.

Regardless, it can’t be argued that if ESPN.com posts this story on its homepage it will bring this scandal to a lot of people's eyes for the first time.