Right after Florida’s 80-58 win over Toledo, Nick Calathes decided to play some online poker for money. Calathes said he did lose very little amount of money and told reporters that he did nothing wrong. Coach Billy Donovan backed his sophomore guard up and was shocked because of how people write these kind of stories when there is nothing bad that has happened or nothing went wrong. There are stories out their that stats that Calathes lost about 600$ playing poker, but we doubt it was that much.

Calathes added 16 points and 7 assists in the win over Toledo. This is a situation that does not deserve any kind of distractions towards the Gators. They sure do not need any right now. Donovan stated that Nick did nothing wrong and he can play poker on his free time if he wishes to. So why is everybody making a big deal about it? He is not underage or anything. What makes a difference in Calathes playing poker and losing money then you playing and losing money? Nothing. Parsons told reporters that none of it is true and they all put it behind them anyways. It sounds like Coach Donovan and the rest of the Gator squad handled the situation very well and continue to move on and look forward to their game Sunday against Bradley.