Earlier today, it was announced that Unibet purchased Bet24 for around €13. 5, making the company just another in a long line of acquisitions. This trend has been going on for a couple of years now and has been magnified by the events surrounding Black Friday. What has been interesting has been the reaction over certain acquisitions.

Federated Sports and Gaming announced today that they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the end of the day on Tuesday. Cue Daniel Negreanu's "I told you so" video blog. No, he hasn't made one.

According to an article posted on QuadJack. com earlier today, it looks like the matter surrounding Michael Divita's exclusion from the second Epic Poker League Main Event has been resolved. For those of you that don't remember or don't follow the EPL, Divita won a seat into the second EPL Main Event but was refused entry because of being a registered sex offender in California. He was refunded his original $1,500 and escorted out of the building.

This evening, I learned that Michael Divita was going to be a guest on QuadJacks Radio. In all honesty, I haven't listened to QuadJacks for a while.   The show went downhill and after an incident a while back where they used some information I provided them to ambush a friend, I quit listening. However, Marco can sometimes perform some brilliant interviews and I was mildly curious to hear what Divita had to say.

Poker, as in life, is all about change. Trends come and go. Games get popular, die out, and sometimes even get revived. Strategies change and evolve, as does the game's players.

Chino Rheem won the Epic Poker League's first Main Event. Great! How much did he win? $1 million. How much does he have right now? $0. Or at least that is what is reported.

Daniel Negreanu has been very vocal about not playing in the first Epic Poker League Main Event. He took to his blog earlier today and outlined his reasons why he did not play in the EPL. After his blog was posted, Mike Matusow made the following statement on Twitter: themouthmatusow[http://twitter. com/#%21/themouthmatusow] Real reason @RealKidPoker[http://twitter.