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Be Careful What You Wish For

Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2008

I was playing devil’s advocate the other day and I was wondering what if we were close to getting legalized and regulated online gaming in the US. If I was anti-gaming and realized that I can’t fight the trend anymore, how might I throw in a curveball to muck things up? Then it occurred to [...]

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Google’s NoFollow Tag is a Joke

Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2008

Over this weekend I noticed that my Page Rank on Google shot up to PR8 from PR3 for about an hour. I thought perhaps Google had decided to retract their penalty for not no-following some of my links but I’m back at PR3 so perhaps they haven’t. Nat Arem first picked up on [...]

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KGC Needs to do the Right Thing

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008

The PPA has recently come out with a statement which indicates their dissatisfaction with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission’s (KGC) handling of the Absolute and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals. In a nutshell the PPA thinks the investigations need more transparency. The KGC has been in CYA mode and issued the following press release. Kahnawá:ke Gaming [...]

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Sometimes You Can’t Explain Why They Do It

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008

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Online Poker Industry Report July 23, 2008

Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008

Sorry for the late post this week. My hard drive fried and I lost an entire day getting that replaced. The online poker industry had a slow but positive week. Everest must be doing something screwy (I’ll have to do more investigation on that) as their numbers have been whipsawing all over the place. They’ve been [...]

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Becoming a Winning Poker Player

Date: Wed, Jul 16, 2008

Yesterday I talked about the importance of not spewing chips and today I wanted to explore the opposite side of that equation in terms of how to make your opponents put more chips into the pot when they’re behind. It’s the hallmark of winning players at the higher levels that they know how to [...]

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Online Poker Industry Report July 15, 2008

Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2008

After a nice little bounce last week the overall market market slid 4.11% WOW.  I can’t say I was too surprised with that as I thought last week’s numbers were a little high.  Not much in the way of sporting events to take the European customers offline but beautiful weather throughout Europe probably didn’t help [...]

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More About Why PokerNews is Mad

Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2008

This comes from the Poker Network site where rmh123 has the following to say: The facts! I have just spoken to Tony G who is currently in Russia and not happy! Tony told me that he paid entries for 35 people into the main event, with the aim of helping some people, but also to gain maimum [...]

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Tiffany Michelle Interview

Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2008

Looks like Tiffany had her sights set on a massively huge career after she gave PokerNews the brush off. Here she is in a PokerNews interview telling her employer “Sorry PokerNews” after pondering the final table, the deals, and other things coming her way. Advertisement: All About Phil Ivey Everything there is [...]

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PokerNews Gets Their Panties All in a Bunch

Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2008

The other day I posted about how the WSOP is beginning to bore me and today I would like to take a look at something I consider to be a black mark on the both the industry and the event. PokerNews is considering legal action against Tiffany Michelle because her agent found a loophole [...]

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How Small Poker Mistakes Add Up to Big Losses

Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2008

One of the things that prevents many people from moving up limits in poker is a failure to realize how costly seemingly small mistakes are. I thought I would try to demonstrate what a bankroll killer small mistakes can be via a few examples. Let’s jump right in and start laying out some [...]

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Ultimate Bet Scandal Continues

Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2008

Looks like Nat Arem and the 2+2 guys are rabidly following up leads which seem to indicate that Russ Hamilton was associated with several of the superuser accounts involved in the recent Ultimate Bet cheating scandal. There’s also some evidence that the cheating goes back earlier than what UB has admitted to so far. [...]

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The World Series of Poker Bores Me

Date: Sat, Jul 12, 2008

I was reading this post from super poker affiliate Jeremy Enke about the fact that your average affiliate stands to gain more from his affiliate related activities than he does from playing poker. I’m not sure I completely agree with that but he said something that got my big old head nodding in agreement. I [...]

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Become the King of Bluff

Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2008

A funny poker related ad.

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