Three people write everything on this site. No ghostwriters, no rotating freelancers, no byline that doesn’t belong to someone who did the work.
Earl Burton
Earl Burton has been a journalist for more than forty years, with the last twenty focused specifically on poker: tournaments, players, and the industry politics behind both. Before poker, Earl served four years in the United States Marine Corps, then spent sixteen years in radio across formats from album-oriented rock to news/talk. He’s still on the air with a rock and roll program most Sundays, and he’s the author of “For Those About to Rock: My Journey Through Rock Journalism.”
Earl doesn’t just cover the game from the outside. He plays it, hitting casinos and card rooms in his home state of Florida to report and to sit down at the tables himself.
Dan Katz
Dan Katz has been writing about the gambling industry, with a focus on poker, since 2005. He holds a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Emory University, degrees he’ll be the first to tell you have little to do with what he actually spends his time on. Before poker writing, he worked in IT and management consulting. Dan lives in Atlanta with his wife and two kids, and outside of writing, he’s usually deep into a PC game or hunting down a retro console for a collection that keeps outgrowing its space.
Dan is also PokerNewsDaily’s link to its own history. He wrote for the original PokerNewsDaily, stepped away for other things, and came back years later to do it again.
Jake Mitchell
Jake Mitchell is based in Henderson, Nevada, close enough to Las Vegas that the poker and gambling industry isn’t something he covers from a distance. He got into poker first as a player, drawn to the strategy side: odds, decision-making, reading a situation with incomplete information. Writing was something he already wanted to do professionally, and eventually the two interests found each other. PokerNewsDaily is where that turned into reporting, and where he’s been building his voice as a journalist from the ground up.
Baseball is his sport, but he pays just as much attention to the numbers side of things: odds, betting markets, and why lines move the way they do. He also follows the regulatory and business side of the gambling industry closely. If there’s a tournament, a game, or a regulatory story breaking, he’s probably already reading about it.
Outside of work: a dog that gets most of his free time, a habit of traveling whenever a story gives him a reason to, and (fitting for someone who ended up writing about poker) a weakness for strategy games.