Seattle and Vancouver
Date: Tue, Jun 3, 2008 Internet Tournament
I’m currently in the middle of a week-long trip to Seattle and Vancouver. The trip has a business purpose behind it, but it’s been a ton of fun. A business partner of mine lives in Seattle and he took us around to a bunch of really fun things. From a bunch of [...]
Ultimate Bet Scandal Q&A
Date: Thu, May 29, 2008 Internet Tournament
In a short period of time, Ultimate Bet will release a statement regarding the rumored cheating scandal. The statement confirms that former employees had access to hole card data for a period of about 21 months. In addition, Ultimate Bet says they are going to be paying players back for their net losses [...]
Jailbait Gallery
Date: Wed, May 28, 2008 Internet Tournament
When doing SEO on a website, once of your jobs is to figure out where you rank for certain keywords, which ones are potentially valuable and figure out strategies to get those mediocre keywords to rank higher in Google. For instance, let’s say PocketFives ranked 13th for “poker forum” when you typed that into [...]
Victory is mine.
Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 Internet Tournament
I’m on a trip with some poker affiliates, one of them being Nick from CardsChat. He’s a 19 y/o SEO genius/baller, but he didn’t believe me when I said that UB.com was registered in 1986 according to the whois database. Despite my insistence that I had looked up the domain in the previous [...]
Eric visiting Costa Rica
Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 Internet Tournament
As I’ve mentioned previously, my friend Eric from thepokerfilm is visiting me in Costa Rica for 10 days. He got here a few days ago and we’ve been taking it pretty easy. Mostly just playing pool, hanging out and going out to eat. In a few days, we’re going on a three day trip to [...]
Start of thepokerdb
Date: Tue, May 13, 2008 Internet Tournament
I have never published this anywhere else, but I figured this is as good a place as any. There’s one person who no one in the poker world has heard of, but actually had a brief but pivotal role in the creation of thepokerdb. His name is Richard Reich and he registered in Feb of [...]
ActionJeff auditions for American Idol
Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 Internet Tournament
[YouTube video used to be here…] Possibly the best video in the history of YouTube? Adam Junglen took this video earlier today… I promptly ordered that he go to an electronics store and buy a card reader so he could unload it onto his computer and put it on YouTube. Well worth it, right? UPDATE: Jeff made Adam delete [...]
Return of the picture post
Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 Internet Tournament
I’ve been a little unhappy with the blog lately. Since the “Website Success” posts that I made, I feel like it’s been a little boring around here — for me and almost certainly for you. I don’t blog just to blog, I do it because I like it and I (think) some people [...]
Ways into the WSOP
Date: Wed, May 7, 2008 Internet Tournament
I’m always intrigued by the ways that sites find to get people in the WSOP. It’s probably the only live tournament where online poker sites want players to win seats as badly as the players want to win those seats. That year-round exposure on ESPN is worth millions to the sites, so obviously the more [...]
Poker Forum Traffic etc
Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 Internet Tournament
I have a couple of things to talk about… First, I put up a new site. It’s called Poker Forum Traffic. The site tracks and ranks the biggest poker forums online using the “posts per day” criteria. The site is literally brand new — 24 hours ago I was still doing testing and [...]
Do you smoke?
Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2008 Internet Tournament
I hate to use shock images, but this guy asked for people to see this picture of him. http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfotopage/2424624202/ There are very few things I tell people not to do. I don’t care if gays marry. I have my feelings on things like abortion, but I’d never tell someone what they should do in their [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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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