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Mike Matusow and His Brother Have Major Falling Out

Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2007

I use Google Reader and I follow Mike’s brother’s site called the Matasow Truth Blog and was a little surprised to find this post on the site. I know longer work for Mike this site will be changed to the title of the site. “Matusow truth” in which the general public will have access to [...]

Rumors Put Absolute Scam at $7 Million

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2007

According to Point-Spreads.com, AJ Green the man behind the Absolute scandal took down more than the $700K that Absolute is reporting. A former employee (who may have a bone to pick) dishes the dirt on Green’s activities in Costa Rica. While at Nine.com, AJ had a portrait done of himself that hung on his [...]

Absolute Changes Story . . . . Again!

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007

Here is a recent communication that went out from AP to players: Dear AP Player: I am the former Grand Chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake and the owner of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which holds a 100% interest in Absolute Poker. As many of our players are aware, there has been a security breach in our system [...]

Man Up, Calvin!

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007

Calvin Ayre recently posted a challenge to Scott Lewis of 1st Technology LLC. Ayre is suggesting that Scott Lewis and he have a $1 million MMA (mixed martial arts) brawl to be filmed and distributed by Ayre’s own production company. Wow, that seems like such a great offer. If Ayre’s wins then [...]

Absolute BS

Date: Sun, Oct 21, 2007

From the “You Don’t Really Expect Me to Buy This BS, Do You?” dept comes Absolute’s explanation of what actually happened. According to MSNBC a source within Absolute who would only be quoted anonymously said: “This is literally a geek trying to prove to senior management that they were wrong and he took it too [...]

Absolute Poker and Online Poker

Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2007

I’ve been watching the Absolute cheating saga unfold over on 2+2 and P5’s and am shaking my head. I was trying to hold off judgement until a clear story came out (in case you want the whole story you can click here for a good summary) but now, according to P5’s, Absolute admits that [...]

Absolute Cheating

Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2007

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On The Road Again

Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2007

I’ll be in London this week so my irregular posting schedule may become even more irregular. Cheers Advertisement: All About Phil Ivey Everything there is to know about the best poker player in the world.

Site Outage Yesterday

Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2007

Sorry if anyone had trouble reaching the site yesterday. Seems the guys who hose my DNS were under a pretty heave DDOS attack which prevented people from being able to find the site. both ns0 and ns1 DNS servers are under DDoS attack since 10PM (gmt+2) yesterday, ns0 is unreachable since 6AM this [...]

The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!

Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2007

“. . . Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now. ” — Steve Martin, The Jerk Well [...]

UIGEA Rules Due Soon

Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2007

Word on the street is that the long awaited rules that will provide the “how” part of the UIGEA will be out as soon as tomorrow and within a week at the latest. There will be an expected 60 - 90 day commenting period and then re-examination period which could take up to 180 [...]

Welcome to India

Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2007

Warning: No Poker Content. Run for your lives!!! A friend sent this to me and I thought it would be good to share as a glimpse into what India can be like at times. Advertisement: PokerFilter.net combs the internet looking for the best poker related news and articles.

Surprise! Online Gaming Doesn’t Increase Addiction

Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2007

I’ve long said that the argument that compulsive gamblers will increase due to the availability of online gaming was highly questionable and now it appears the British government has produced the results to bolster my belief. According to a report published last week, 99.4 Britons were able to enjoy gambling responsibly. Only 0.6% [...]

India and Thailand

Date: Sun, Sep 23, 2007

Warning: No Poker Content Sorry the updates have been a little sparse lately but I’ve been on the road and haven’t had much time to do updates. I flew out of Gib last Wed afternoon. I arrived at Gatwick and checked into the Gatwick Hilton in the South Terminal. Not a bad [...]