We apologize for the continued delay getting Full Tilt Poker collection back up and running. We anticipate having a complete data set for the month of July once we implement our new collection system. All missing tournaments should be restored. We hope to have everything up and running this week but it is possible that the delay will stretch into early next week. We’ll post here with more updates once we have more information.

As we’ve already stated, we will adjust subscriptions to compensate for the downtime. Thank you for understanding.

We’ll have the Full Tilt feed re-established within the next couple days. Once we have this done, we’re going to go ahead and extend all db subscriptions by an extra 2 weeks to accomodate for the gap. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Hi all, we’ve temporarily suspended collection of Full Tilt Poker tournaments due to a software update. We are working to restore our data collection as soon as possible but there will be downtime due to the unfortunate timing of the update. At this point, we are unsure how many tournaments will be missed however we are going to try to keep it to a minimum. Unless Full Tilt is willing to cooperate with BLUFF on this issue, we will have permanently missing data from the db.

We’ll post here again as we know more.

PokerStars recently changed the results display of the 180-person and 90-person SNG’s. Players that did not participate in the tournament can no longer view the results. Instead of listing the players in the result box, they display the following message, “Additional tournament information is available to the tournament participants only.” This has altogether eliminated our ability to collect the data for these tournaments. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please forward your complaints to support@pokerstars.com.

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Bluff Magazine updated and released the 2009 Online Player of the Year numbers. Because the numbers lack relevance during the month of January, all links and promotion remained concentrated on the 2008 Online Player of the Year statistics. All of the Bluff Magazine’s Online Ranking numbers are updated on Wednesday of every week.

Online Poker Professional The Maven completely dominated the month of December, which lead to his being crowned the 2008 Online Poker Player of the Year. Read The Maven’s interview about how he was able to achive the goal of obtaining the OPOY honors.

With the launch of the new bluffmagazine.com, we are also launching a new blogging platform. With the new platform, it gives us the flexibility to easily add new blogs and let all sorts of new bloggers start using our system. One of those new blogs is going to be a blog devoted specifically to thepokerdb, Bluff’s online poker tournament tracking database.

In terms of history, thepokerdb was founded in May 2005 by Nat Arem and Paul Shamilov. It was developed initially as a beta but, upon proving popular, was relaunched as a production-level site in the fall of 2005. Over the following 12 months, thepokerdb’s traffic and popularity increased by leaps and bounds prompting an acquisition by Bluff Media in December 2006. For the following few months, Bluff developers worked to redevelop thepokerdb and integrate it into Bluff Magazine’s website. In late March 2007, thepokerdb was moved from thepokerdb.com to bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb and version 2.0 of the site was finally live. On January 29th, 2009, the latest version of thepokerdb (very similar to the previous one in terms of function, but taken to the next level in terms of design) was rolled out.

Going forward, we hope this blog will serve as a resource for us to communicate with thepokerdb’s valued users and subscribers. We will be posting regularly as bugs and problems arise, along with information about bug fixes and how we resolve any future issues. As this business is constantly evolving and technical issues are always coming up, we can’t promise that everything will always be correct — that’s where you can help. Report issues to us. Leave comments on this blog. Explain the problems that you’re seeing and what the data should look like. It’s nearly impossible for us to keep up with every bit of data from every site, so we rely on you to be our eyes and ears for many of the minute problems that can arise when collecting enormous amounts of data everyday.

Thank you very much for years of loyalty and we hope you like the new design,

Nat Arem
thepokerdb.com founder

UBOC Series All of the tournaments in the UBOC series were initially missed by thepokerdb’s scrapers. The problem has been solved and the results will be posted shortly. If you see that we have missed any of the events, please send the tournament ID to thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com and we’ll get it inserted right away. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The latest release of the PokerStars client caused some data gathering issues. They have since then been alleviated, but from the 5th of January through the 10th of January, we missed a few of the multi sng’s. If you feel that we’ve missed any of your results, please send the tournamentID to thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com and we’ll get it inserted right away. We apologize for the inconvenience.

On 11/25, UB changed their coding to match Absolute Poker, finalizing the Cereus Merger. With the change, all UB tourneys have been showing in thepokerdb as AP tourneys. We have been working on the problem and will have a solution to it shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank everyone for their patience.