The Vultures Are Circling
I just got this email from Chili Poker today: MALTA, 17/04/2011 – Beat the Black Friday with the Chilipoker.com Purple Day In response to the Black Friday of the online poker,…
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Happy Songkran
If people had been wondering where I was all last week, I was up in Phetchabun for the Songkran festival. Songkran is a religious holiday but over the years it has sort of developed into…
Read the articleThe Fallout From The Full Tilt / PokerStars Pullout
I said I was going to cover what this all means on a few topics when I got home and as I start to write this it's 6:07am and I've just spent a sleepless night on the bus from Phetchabun…
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I have to apologize for being quiet lately. I've been in the backwaters of Thailand and the best I can get up here is GPRS which is about as slow as dialup so I've only been checking…
Read the articleFanelli 'Found to be Sane'
Just a quick update on Ron "The Mad Yank" Fanelli. After five months of psychiatric review in Surat Thani Fanelli is back in Phuket prison deemed to be sane. Fanelli requested the…
Read the articleThe New Standard in Online Poker
If you haven't noticed a trend by now, I'm sort of disappointed that the online poker industry has failed to really embrace the social media world. Much like AOL in the late 1990's many…
Read the articleOnline Poker Needs an Attitude Adjustment
Again, just like yesterday's post, The Value of Free , today's post is partially inspired by Kim Lund's great post Why PokerRoom.com was five years ahead of its time. And it's also…
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I was just reading Kim Lund's excellent post Why PokerRoom.com was five years ahead of its time and I couldn't help pick up on one of the points he made about social media (which…
Read the articleWhy Social Media is a Fail for Most Online Poker Sites
View the original embedded media sme_bw2010_jay_baer_v1 from Michael A. Stelzner on Vimeo . I was watching this video and couldn't help but think about all of the mistakes online poker…
Read the articleCake Poker Network Being Bought By PokerListings.com?
PokerNewsDaily is reporting that Cake Poker Network is to be purchased by PokerListings . That combined with the negotiations between 888 and Ladbrokes and the bwin / Party Gaming merger…
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