UFC 83

Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2008 Internet Tournament

Well, as I said, I’ve been getting in MMA lately, so it’s only fitting that I make a post about UFC 83, which is this Saturday (April 19th). You can see the schedule here: UFC 83 fightcard. As I’ve said, I’m still new to this, so I haven’t seen many of these fighters more than [...]

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Bankers having trouble figuring out the UIGEA

Date: Sun, Apr 13, 2008 Internet Tournament

I know this is a few weeks old, but I didn’t see it until today. I’m sure some blog readers haven’t seen it either. Apparently there was a House hearing on Wed April 2nd about the enforcement of the UIGEA. Feds say Internet gambling law ambiguous I think it’s kind of predictable that this stuff would happen. [...]

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Torrents and MMA

Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 Internet Tournament

I did end up getting a torrent invite from a very kind blog reader. I am now a member of a TV torrent site. I know that it’s illegal piracy, but I’m in Costa Rica most of the time now. It’s hard to get American TV shows when you live out of [...]

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New PocketFives Design

Date: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 Internet Tournament

As I’m sure many of you are aware, there has been a new PocketFives.com design up for a week or so. It has had its fair share of trouble (slow page loads, etc), but I’m pretty sure it’s a good thing for the site in the long-run once the major kinks are worked out. However, [...]

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paypal cartoon

Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 Internet Tournament

I’ve actually had my account frozen, seemingly randomly, by PayPal before. The company is, for lack of a better word, retarded. I mean, it’s great and all that the company revolutionized online payments and whatnot, but they really do get in the way of a great business model. I normally wouldn’t post boring stuff [...]

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break videos

Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 Internet Tournament

I am not sure why I found these to be so funny, but I was laughing so hard I was basically crying after watching a few of these. I probably need to rapidly increase in maturity one of these days.

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Private Torrent Trackers

Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 Internet Tournament

I don’t really know how to break into one of these.  It seems like there are all sorts of rules to get involved and stay involved, most of which surround your upload ratio.  But how can I get a good upload ratio when I’m not allowed onto the private tracker nor do I even know [...]

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thepokerfilm update

Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 Internet Tournament

So it’s been months since thepokerfilm was released… what, might you ask, would I write about it now for? Well, a few reasons… First, we were asked to take down the videos with CardRunners logos on them. It was for legal reasons, blah blah blah. That meant basically all of them had to [...]

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xkcd is great

Date: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 Internet Tournament

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Whew, been awhile

Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 Internet Tournament

I normally don’t go 13 days without a blog, but I guess it happens to everyone sometimes. Everyday I either didn’t have anything to blog about or I was just really busy and I didn’t have time to type anything out. Anyway… Two milestones/anniversaries just passed. First, thepokerdb. We launched it on the BLUFF [...]

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Entertaining show on blip.tv

Date: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 Internet Tournament

http://douchebagbeach.blip.tv had me laughing out loud multiple times an episode.  Granted I’m from Philadelphia and I know the “Jersey douchebag”-type all too well, but still, I’m sure a lot of non-Philadelphians would laugh at the show too. Watch from the bottom episode up.

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60 Minutes considering Absolute Poker story

Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 Internet Tournament

I’ve been holding off on telling people about this because the 60 Minutes producer prefers that it be kept under wraps for the time being, but it appears that some other poker news sources are jumping at the opportunity to break this story. I don’t think I can reasonably sit on this any longer. [...]

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thepokerdb site improvement

Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2008 Internet Tournament

I wrote about this back in the November/December timeframe when we started the project.  See: (Post #1) (Post #2). Just to update you, I think things have leveled off since we made some changes to thepokerdb and the BLUFF Magazine site in general.  We’re retaining all of our gains, but our traffic has pretty much settled [...]

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Website Success: Part Four

Date: Fri, Mar 7, 2008 Internet Tournament

This is a followup to Website Success: Part One, Website Success: Part Two and Website Success: Part Three. I ended the last post by saying that Firefox had penetrated the browser market, overcoming the inertia present in millions of Internet Explorer users. Let’s examine how and why that happened. I believe that Firefox has taken such [...]

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