RE hand packs - We'll probably get something going to replace these soon. Perhaps small interest articles (5 questions with 5 players type things). If you have a format you would like, post here or PM me please, we'd love to hear ideas.
Hands are currently too expensive to get for the amount of people that read the hand packs. We don't get enough observer hands submitted to us, so we end up having to pay people to send us interesting hands and the price unfortunately went up a lot recently for us. If this changes, we'll certainly bring back the hand packs.