I came home from work this a.m. to be faced with an absolute that I find to be quite vexing. I’ve read Tony G.’s blog post and you should too. A year ago I attended my first WSOP sessions with a media pass. It was pretty sweet to be able to move around and through the roped off areas and view the tournaments up close instead of standing behind the ropes and craning to try and see the action. Our access was judged by the color of our media pass. CardPlayer had the nuts on the scene. They had complete control overlive blogging and total access to the tournaments even down to the last few tables. When a tournament dropped to 15 tables, those of us that didn’t have a CardPlayer media pass were not allowed inside the tournament area.

I had a major run in with a CardPlayer representative simply because I didn’t move out her way when she thought I should. You can read that here.

CardPlayer was King of the Hill, top dog, the bees’ knees, and the cat’s meow.

This year CardPlayer lost their position and slipped off the hill, replaced by Bluff Magazine and PokerNews. We ran an article recently when the news was announced.

So how is that CardPlayer has instant chip counts up on their site when they are not allowed to live blog and do not have that kind of access? Is there a Chip Count Fairy that flits over the tables and then instantly sends a mental message to someone at CardPlayer?Is there any other way that this could be happening? Yes, it’s one that we don’t want tothrow out in the bright light of day but ifsomeone is stealing content, should we just ignore it and look the other way?

Are there no longer any standards or moral ethics considered in business? Or to go one step further, in poker? We all despise collusion and cheating. We all hate liars and thieves. What category should stealing media releases be placed under? You be the judge.