One of DonkDown's most pleasant surprises of 2010 has been user "cleatus", a local Vegas resident in his 50s who went from mostly lurking to becoming one of this site's biggest supporters.  Whether it's doing favors for members in need, railing deep runs in the WSOP, or posting HOF trip reports, cleatus has brought a lot to our forum community this year.  Unfortunately, cleatus is also a bit short on money, and some asshole ripped off his scooter.  It was his only form of transportation around Las Vegas.  Brandon "Drexel" has started a drive to raise money to buy cleatus a new scooter, and I feel this guy is definitely deserving of the community's helping hand.  Visit our official Buy-Cleatus-A-Scooter thread for info about donating to the cause!  I will be handling the money, so you can be assured that 100% of it will go toward the new scooter.

DonkDown Radio isn't all fun and games.  Sometimes it's serious business.  Thanks to our user "Lawn Cigar", who hooked Dan Druff up with a new USB sound card, the popular "Dan Druff +EV Show" is returning!  This show covers serious poker, gambling, and life topics, and the new season begins on August 5th at 3:30pm PDT.  Check out the official thread for the show, and post your questions in advance.  Can't make it for the show, or want to hear past episodes?  Check out our archives!

Yesterday we had Melanie Weisner, newly minted Full Tilt red pro on DonkDown Radio.  Be sure to listen to the Callisto5 episode, where we discuss her poker as well as a large range of topics, including manual or machine.  Just listen, Melanie was a great guest, and I feel we should have her read Maven's twitter once an episode.

Here at donkdown, we take pride in constantly keeping UB's feet to the fire, when it comes to the cheating scandal and their subsequent cover-up.  While Russ Hamilton was the ringleader of the cheating scheme, he didn't do it alone.  One of his accomplices was Rebecca Makar, a close associate.  She had superuser accounts in her name and apparently cashed out stolen money.  According to mookman5, a UB victim who has aggressively been pursuing the truth, Makar had the nerve to show her face at the 2010 WSOP Main Event!  Click the link to find out all about it.  Also, read some interesting anecdotes about someone with an in-person experience with this cheater.

I started DonkDown to guarantee that poker players would have a place to say something, even if it was unpopular or damaging to myself or other owners.  This is an important concept to me.  Obviously the is a concept lost on Mason Malmuth.  Mason is lucky he started his poker forum years before anyone else.  He enjoys the largest poker forum community by far.  It is such a shame, because he stifles discussion that users want to discuss.  2+2 has shown the tendancy to lock or delete threads that bring controversy or show poker players in a bad light.  Recently 2+2 user "NewTeaBag" was arrested in Thailand and accused of killing a Thai female.  Details are in the DonkDown thread of course, and like all of our content it won't be deleted.  Bonus for making it to the end of this article:  UB HOES!