Many major news outlets missed this as I’m sure they’re busy reporting on the WSOP at the moment but the University of Alberta AI program Polaris beat a group of live poker players for the first time. The team of pros put together to match Polaris were Nick “stoxtrader” Grudzien, Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko, and [...]
One of the guys I work with started reading off some of the notes he had taken on other players and he had all of us rolling. I asked him to send over some of his less offensive player notes and I’ve included them below. Stalk this player… he is the worst player… loads of money [...]
A surprising bounce back this week with the market being up over 15% this week. I say surprising because the Wimbledon Finals were on Sunday and the Federer / Nadal match was absolutely fantastic. The game both of these guys brought with them to the court was one of the most inspiring moments I’ve seen [...]
Someone recently posted a comment on a post I did back in 2005 regarding the futility of being an online poker affiliate. My main point of the post is that poker blogs don’t really convert well because by the time someone finds your blog they usually have an online poker account already. The [...]
My site usually ranks pretty highly with Google. I normally enjoy a PR5 though sometimes I slip down to PR4. Well imagine my surprise when I noticed that I had slipped down to PR3. I haven’t really made any major changes so I was a bit baffled. Doing some sleuthing I was able to discover [...]
Warning: No poker content in this post. Cover your eyes and run for your lives. This is a seriously cool video Matt Harding put together. He travelled to 42 countries in 14 months and shot video of himself dancing all over the world. Tell me you can watch this and not smile. Where the Hell is [...]
I thought I would take a different angle as I always get a lot of feedback when I analyze the online poker industry. Some of that feedback is positive and some is negative (people hate bad news) but either way it does seem to be something I like looking at and want to share [...]
Tonight I was able to witness something you only can only appreciate as an expat living abroad. I watched Spain play Germany in the Euro 2008 football (Americans can read that as soccer) competition. On one side you had all of the English people who live here rooting for Spain because every proper Englishman still [...]
Okay, that’s not what the article said but I found this a little amusing. Besides, if this whole poker thing turns out to be a fad I wanted to keep my Enquirer-esque headline writing skills sharp. "A Native American woman gave me this eagle," Obama told the all-female audience, as he picked through the pile. [...]
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Ultimate Bet issued a press release detailing the results of their investigation of the suspected NioNio superuser account. If you were not aware of the cheating scandal over at UB you can either read this very detailed analysis on 2+2 or go with the more concise Bill’s Notes: Player realizes that a specific player is running [...]
Party Poker is running a $1 Million Guaranteed tournament this Saturday. Nice way to end out the month if you can money. Buy-in: $640 Starting Chips: 20,000 Levels: 20 min Start time: 12:45 ET Advertisement: PokerFilter.net combs the internet looking for the best poker related news and articles.
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