A great debate among players wages on about whether training sites are good or bad for the game of poker. Winning Poker Network has apparently weighed in on this debate by doing something that no other network has done.

Winning Poker Network Purchases Drag the Bar

Winning Poker Network, with leading skins America’s Cardroom, Black Chip Poker, PokerHost, True Poker and Ya Poker,, has purchased Drag the Bar, a well-regarded training site, in a move that hasn’t really been explained to much to customers yet. The news of the purchase leaked out during the week and Drag the Bar is the only side that has made an official statement about the acquisition. This also explains why Merge Network stopped using a Drag the Bar membership as one of it’s promotions available to all players.





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The statement made by the now former CEO of Drag the Bar is as follows:

“Hey guys, we apologize for the frequent downtime over the last 6 weeks. Its been a little bit hectic as we've been completing the sale of DTB to the Winning Poker Network. The good news is that the stabilization work has been 95% completed and things should be much better going forward.



WPN is going to make DragTheBar 100% free to everyone, while keeping all the same coaches on board and existing content on the site. It was always a goal of ours at DTB to make poker training accessible to everyone, and we're very happy that WPN is finally making that possible.



While myself and my team will be stepping aside, we hope you guys continue to enjoy and benefit from DTB going forward.”

This statement is interesting for a myriad of reasons, most notably being the announcement that Drag the Bar is now going to be completely free to all users. This has apparently already happened as many users, including the writers here at ProfressionalRakeback.com, have been able to log into their accounts, or create new ones, and have access to all of the content no matter how basic or advanced the concepts covered are. While this has yet to be announced by Winning Poker Network itself, their representative has indicated that an announcement email is forthcoming, which should hopefully shed some light on future plans for the training site.

Previously free poker training content had been fairly scarce, or at least good content had been fairly scarce. Newer players, who many times where the ones looking for this kind of content, could be easily tricked to think that something was good, or worthwhile when it was not. With Drag the Bar now being free it provides all players somewhere to go that they can access free, high level content. All of the same coaches will continue to make content as well, so there will not be a drop off in the quality of training material produced, which could have been a fear from a site no longer charging a membership fee to its members.

While it’s still not known how Winning Poker Network is going to leverage this to their advantage it’s undeniable that it is going to be good for players. Free, high level content is always a welcome sign for players. Also, this addition to the Winning Poker Network completes a circle of certain kinds, as the current CEO was actually the founder of Drag that Bar as he said during one of his first Twitch.tv streams. This also might explain a little bit of why this happened.

It is going to be interesting to see how Winning Poker Network is going to use Drag the Bar in the near and distant future. Tell us what you think of the acquisition and the announcement that all content is going to be free! Leave a comment for us on Twitter or Facebook!