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Old Timey Road Gamblers

Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2008

Sweet. I'm buried right now but Johnny Hughes came through with another fine poker memoir, never before published. Enjoy: ---- POKER HISTORY: THE REVEREND PRUITT, STINKY DAVIS, AND MOODY YOUNG. by Johnny Hughes. The old gamblers I write about are very dear in my memory because they all helped me go to college. Now young Dudes like Iggy drag down thirty dimes in a few days and it is no big

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Poker Blogs Still Rule

Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2008

"I’m not sure if reading Iggy’s blog will make you a better poker player but you sure as hell will have a good time reading it. Iggy spends his days swilling beer and surfing the web in search of obscure and often humorous poker material and then he somehow finds a common thread between multiple stories and voila you have an uber post. Your boss will hate Iggy but once you start on an uber post

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Bonus Code IGGY on Party Poker, damnit!

Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008

"When I returned to the Amazon Room Iggy was skillfully guiding his stack through troubled waters as me and Otis and Pauly and F-Train watched like nervous fathers at their kid’s first Little League game. Here we were, a bunch of goofballs who started writing about poker four years ago for the hell of it, and now a bunch of us are covering the WSOP while watching the Blogfather cash in the Main

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Five Years Of -- Bonus Code IGGY on Party Poker

Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008

Wow, I just realized that today is the 5th year anniversary of this here humble poker blog. Five. Fucking. Years. And so I'm gonna ram out a quick post. Be back in a few.

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Party Poker Blog - 2008-09-28

Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008

Here's the latest per the Kentucky gambling insanity. From the AP: -- Negotiations begin in online casinos suit Some operators shut down week after state sued them FRANKFORT - Gamblers in Kentucky will no longer be able to access some online casinos because of a legal fight being led by the state's governor. Some online casino operators have begun blocking access to state residents a week

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Party Poker Blog - 2008-09-27

Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2008

Missing my friends in Philly right now. Wish I was there. But someone just sent me this interesting link: McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry

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Party Poker Blog - 2008-09-24

Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008

This is easily the greatest retraction ever. Per the Absolute Poker and UB cheating scandal, Fiji offered this superb post at 2/2: My retraction of certain statements made about UltimateBet and Joe Norton

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Party Poker Blog - 2008-09-24

Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008

I think someone twittered this link and it's pretty damn interesting per presidential election wagering. Intrade Betting is Suspicious There's something funny going on over at Intrade with respect to the pricing of the Obama and McCain contracts.

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Bonus Code IGGY on Party Poker

Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008

Well, I'll be dipped. I was gonna get on here and link up all sorts of random poker nonsense but I'm on an call and trying to pay attention to the shenanigans by the State of Kentucky. To wit: [Querying whois.enom.com] [whois.enom.com] =-=-=-= Visit AboutUs.org for more information about luckypyramidcasino.com a href="http://www.aboutus.org/luckypyramidcasino.com"AboutUs: luckypyramidcasino.com

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Party Poker Blog - 2008-09-23

Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008

Just an update from some of the poker -- gambling firms targeted. Nick Wood, managing director of London-based Com Laude, which holds the domain name for PokerStars, said: "We anticipated this could happen and we've developed an action plan which largely consists of us not responding." Milton Keynes-based Safenames, the registrar for Full Tilt, declined to comment. From the Guardian: Kentucky

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Kentucky commandeering 141 domain names of Internet gambling sites

Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008

Insane. Just announced: State cracks down on Net gambling Commandeers 141 playing site domain names Lord, and Beshear is a PRO-gambling advocate there in Kentucky. Weeee.

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I miss Party Poker

Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008

Wow, this is crazy. Right across the river from Guinness & Poker world headquarters, the Governor wants to take control of gambling web sites. What on earth? I'm sure Full Tilt is shaking in their boots . . . --- Beshear seeks control of online gambling sites Pro-casino governor calls betting sites 'leeches,' seeks to block FRANKFORT - Kentucky's pro- gambling governor is looking to make

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Bonus Code IGGY on Party Poker

Date: Sun, Sep 21, 2008

"You got a lot of bricks, but I don't know what the building looks like." Don Draper Funny how watching the WSOP on ESPN has gotten my poker itch up and running. And I can't help but scratch it. Watching the Main Event coverage has pretty much transported me back to the event itself. I can't even imagine how it affects my intrepid reporter friends who essentially lived there for six weeks.

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Some UIGEA fallout

Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008

I still have no power. Good times. But I just read this article pertaining to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. --- Bush Administration Moving to Block Second Life and Other Online "Games of Skill" In 2006, Congress passed the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act." The bill was vaguely written and voted on months before the '06 election. The bill's political purpose

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