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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Can Bots Be The Path To Legalized Online Poker?
Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008
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 [...]
Send In Your Player Notes
Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2008
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 [...]
Online Poker Industry Report July 7, 2008
Date: Mon, Jul 7, 2008
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 [...]
Are Poker Blogs Futile?
Date: Sat, Jul 5, 2008
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 [...]
Who Ate My Page Rank?
Date: Fri, Jul 4, 2008
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 [...]
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