Slotland Player Hits $168,947 Jackpot on “Booster”

in Gamblogger
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 Internet

It’s taken a little longer than usual but Slotland’s progressive jackpot has just been hit for $168,947. A player known as “MRSSMITHS” won the jackpot playing the Booster slot machine.

Historically, Slotland’s progressive jackpot is hit fairly regularly – about every six weeks – for just over $100,000. ...

Heads Up Michael Phelps

in PokerBlog.com - The Professional Poker Blog
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008

OK, I first must confess that I care absolutely nothing about the Olympics. Don't watch, don't follow, don't care. Zero, Zip, Nadda. However, poker and the olympics is a different story and the golden boy of the 2008 Sportsfest, Michael Phelps, has said he would like to play in the World Series of Poker. ...

Boss Going Offline or Hyped Up Story?

in Bill's Poker Blog
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008

Boss Media who runs IPN has been ordered by a Maltese court to cease commercial activity from their servers based in Malta ...

down with plo

in CardRunners - Andrew's Blog
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008

We had a video meeting yesterday discussing some upcoming video series. There are some really cool ssplo and msplo things in ...

High Variance Session

in Soultwister's Poker Den
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 Internet

Yesterday's session was absolutely nuts. There are no other words to describe it, and I definitely did not play optimal. It was a session which gave me a lot of food for thought. So much, I decided not to play today but go through the hands.

So first of all, let's skip towards the end of the session on one of my tables where someone tried to own me by using the ...

Steep price to pay for Henry

in Party Poker Blog
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008

I was as surprised as anyone to see the Cincinnati Bengals re-signed Chris Henry this morning. WTF doesn't even do this ...

More Random Crap

in Dead Money = Sir AlCantHang
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008

I had a sweet run at the tables this weekend that was bound to end sooner rather than later.

The moment I won the ticket to FTOPS #24 I should have pocketed the T$'s and shut it down. I won that seat, final tabled ...

PokerStars increases tourney guarantees...again

in PokerStars Poker Blog
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008

If it's Tuesday, it must be time for PokerStars to pump up its guaranteed tournament schedule again. To be fair, it's not every week PokerStars gives its guarantees a shot in the arm, but it does seem like it's happen...

Modern Technology

in Ramblings of a Mad Man (A.K.A Online Poker Thoughts)
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008

How soon will it be until beggars on the street play Guitar Hero on their free wireless connection for your quarters instead of ...

In Deep Blue

in Online poker jottings
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 Internet

Last night my mom and I were sitting in the living room talking about the many things of life... in-between... we talked about the idea of living or dying.

I said to her: ' Mom, never let me live in a vegetative state, totally dependent on machines and liquids from a bottle. If you ...