You Smell Good by Tommy Angelo
Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2008
My friend Jack is from China. When he speaks English, he does so with a very heavy accent, and his word selection has on occasion caused me to reach for my pen to capture the moment. Like this one time… We were playing shorthanded $40-80 limit hold’em in the middle of the night. A hand came [...]
The Value of Content
Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008
I received an email tonight from Chris at Part Time Poker informing me that the submitted story I posted here titled History of Texas Hold’em was stolen from his site. Not wanting to jump to conclusions I emailed James Hatfield from The Absolute Nuts asking him to clarify. Before Chris James could answer [...]
History of Texas Hold’em
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
Invented by nomadic Druidsin the 3rd Century, its name originally could only be pronounced by a well-squeezed wolf. However, after the “Treat Thy Wolves the Way Thee Would Like to be Treated Act” of early Druid law, the name of the game was changed to “Toth Hoth Thoth” and could be easily spoken by humans, [...]
Boss Going Offline or Hyped Up Story?
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 before September 18th 2008. PokerTrillion.com who initiated the suit against Boss Media is hyping up this story to make it seem like Boss Media and IPN will be completely offline on Sept 18. [...]
Online Poker Industry Report Aug 18, 2008
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008
Looks like the summer slowdown is kicking in. The overall market was off about 5.5%. A lot of that came from the 7.5% slide by Stars. Microgaming had the biggest loss at 10% which followed a slightly down week the prior and an off week two weeks ago. They’ve slipped below Pacific and seem to [...]
When is a Met Guarantee Still an Overlay?
Date: Sun, Aug 17, 2008
When we see these big guaranteed tournaments it’s often easy to look at the number of people who registered and the amount contributed to the prize pool and make a determination about whether the guarantee was met or not. While, technically, from a player’s perspective this is all that matters, from a business perspective there [...]
Party Poker’s Biggest Bad Beat Jackpot in History
Date: Fri, Aug 15, 2008
The Party Poker BBJP went north of $1 million this week and below is the hand that took it down. Full house beat by, quads, beat by a royal flush. ***** Hand History for Game 7299704817 ***** 0.50/1 Texas Hold’em Game Table (Limit) - Thu Aug 14 23:11:13 EDT 2008 Table Jackpot 1419013 (Real Money) [...]
Is 2+2 Deleting Sticky Posts to Quality Content?
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008
According to the rumor mill, Mason Malmuth has ordered 2+2 mods to pull links to quality strategy posts on the popular message board because they may be impacting book sales. There was even a post on the News, Views, and Gossip forum but it says that it’s been moved. But if you click [...]
Being a Successful Poker Player by Fredrik Paulsson
Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008
Bad news first: Unless you’re one of the very select few who have the smarts, the necessary love of the game, enough gamble in you and the almost super-human discipline required to make it to the very highest echelons of poker players, chances are pretty low you’re going to get rich off of this game. [...]
Minimum Wager by Tommy Angelo
Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008
When I play no-limit hold’em, sometimes I’m a minimum wager wagerer. And I don’t mean minimum wager wagerer as in ‘one who tries to bet the smallest amount that will get them to fold if they have nothing,’ such as when the flop is A-A-6 rainbow and a bluffer bets half the pot or thereabouts. [...]
Writers Wanted
Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008
If anyone is interested in submitting articles to appear on Bill’s Blog, please ping me and let’s chat. I remember way back in the day some of us poker bloggers were having a discussion about how do new bloggers get any love. The common answer is that if you’re creating good content then people will [...]
Gibraltar Update
Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2008
Since I get so many "How’s life in Gibraltar?" emails I thought I would do a rambling, stream of consciousness, post about how things have been going. Twilight Zone Last night I checked my mail and was surprised to find something other than my phone bill. See, I have almost all of my mail delivered to [...]
Today’s “Doh!” Moment Brought To You By Betfair
Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008
Betfair recently ran a promotion called Completely Nuts where Betfair would award $100K to the first person who won the Annette $20K Guarantee as well as either the $6k or $5k guaranteed tournament in the same month. Because you’re reading about it here you’ve probably already guessed that it took all of one day [...]
Online Poker Industry Report Aug 05, 2008
Date: Wed, Aug 6, 2008
A very slow and boring week in poker. More of the summer doldrums. Stars’ 2x promotion was still in effect last week. Ladbrokes started running qualifiers for their Poker Million VII. Party started qualifiers for their Birthday $1 Million guarantee. Overall the market was off about 2.5%. Through the end of August this should [...]
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