Planet Poker just threw in the towel

[Tom Bayes]

The cash games had been slowly dying for years. Over the past year, there were usually just a handful of LHE tables, several NLHE tables (mostly micro buyins), a table or two of low-stakes PLO/8, maybe a table of Stud8 and maybe a table of Draw. They just added Badugi a few months ago and it quickly died after the curiosity wore off with the regulars when they learned they sucked at it. It's even worse now, as I'm guessing a lot of people are just clearing out their bankroll (either the transfer to Bodog or check or ePassporte) once they learn the news.

I'm gonna donk off my final few bucks in some small buy-in MTTs and say bye to some of the people I've played on and off for years.

[Tom Bayes]

I withdrew all but $5.xx to ePassporte on Friday afternoon and my money was in ePassporte this morning (Monday).

I played a couple of cheapo tourneys and failed to cash (including the $1 Draw that I used to pwn when I was learning 5CD). I then took my last $2.xx to a micro NL table, got it all-in with QQ against AA, failed to suck out, and that was that for Planet Poker and me.