New Year's Eve in Bangkok
New Year's Eve in Bangkok is always fun. Many people come down to Central Chit Lom which is up the street from my place but I'm not really into massive crowds. Really, it gets like Times…
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A running collection of ideas, detours, and things worth remembering.
Setting Poker Goals in 2010
Ah, tis the season when we make resolutions and we buy one-year gym memberships that will never be used after Feb. I've seen many people writing about their poker goals for the next year…
Read the articleBan Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius from Online Poker? REVISITED
For whatever reason a lot of other poker sites seemed to pick up on the post I wrote about iPoker kicking Blonde Poker off their network for having too many good players. If I remember…
Read the articleTaste of Thailand
I just got back from having coffee and cake at the Four Seasons Hotel with my landlord. He dropped me an email the other day asking if we could get together because he had a gift he…
Read the articleBoxing Day
Every year for the past several years a friend of mine, Aom, has been organizing a "Fancy Dress" party in Bangkok. The idea is simple: Bangkok is all decorated up for the holidays so why…
Read the articleData Mining – Does Isildur1 Have a Case Against Brian Hastings?
Unless you've been living under a rock, the big news in the nosebleed stakes poker circles these days has been Hastings cleaning Isildur1 for over $4 million in one session. It's since…
Read the articleOnline Poker and Data Mining
Paul Nobles from Bluff takes a rather interesting look at the whole data mining brouhaha that's been going on of late . I started to leave a comment on the Pokerati site but my response…
Read the articleShould Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius Be Banned From Online Poker?
If you follow the reasoning of a couple of poker network operators these two should never be allowed to play poker again. Phil Ivey is up $15,661,019.27 and Patrik Antonius has clocked a…
Read the articlePartyGaming / Bwin Merger – Good or Bad for Poker?
Ever since news leaked out about a possible PartyGaming / Bwin I've seen the story covered on several poker websites and have gotten the usual round of "So what do you think this means?"…
Read the articleParadise Poker . . . What Happened?
Way, way, way back in the day I used to get off work at the Bedrock Rock and Gravel Company and come home and play poker at Paradise Poker. As far as I was concerned it was the only…
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