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Getting All Juiced Up

Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2008

The always articulate Haley Hintze left a comment on a post I made the other day about online poker being rigged which I wanted to respond to. I felt that it would make a better post than a comment so here we go. Hiya, Bill! This an example where I think Ed is serving the greater [...]

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10 Questions With Rafe Furst

Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2008

I did this with Rafe a few weeks ago but just got way too caught up in some things in my personal life that I never got around to posting it.  My apologies to Rafe for not getting to it sooner.  Later on this month I can go into some additional detail about what it [...]

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How Easy Is It To Rig Online Poker?

Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008

I received the email below from a software engineer who has experience working in the online poker industry. He asked that I not include his name but I can attest for the fact that he’s a solid engineer who’s skills I respect. I found his take very interesting because unlike most people who [...]

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Online Poker Isn’t Rigged . . . Again!

Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008

After working so hard to make it on my top ten list Ed Miller seems to have posted something that I disagree with. It’s the dreaded “online poker is rigged” argument again. Granted, Ed doesn’t say that online poker is rigged but he does stir up the pot a bit. He goes [...]

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Top 10 Poker Blogs Worth Reading

Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2008

In my never-ending attempted to alienate and piss off people, I thought I would compile of a list of poker blogs that I regularly read.  As the universe of poker blogs has exploded over the last few years I typically find myself reading less and less blogs.  Some, like Hank’s Cards Speak which posts maybe [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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.  [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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) [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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