Bill Rini

90 Days in Thailand - The Journey So Far

We've been back in Thailand a little over three months now and I thought it would be a good time to recap the experience. Getting here was somewhere on my list of the top ten most…

New Beginnings

Just to get it out of the way, yes, I have retired from my position as the Head of Online Poker at Caesars and the World Series of Poker. If that is all you wanted to know, I tried to…

Future Home of the Raiders, Las Vegas Stadium, Under Construction

Decided to stop off on my way to work and grab some shots of the Las Vegas Stadium under construction. I never see much activity going on but it keeps progressing little by little.

One Year Without Facebook?

I started a Facebook-fast around the the new year (Dec 23, 2017 is the last item I found that I posted). I wrote a blog post about it on March 24, 2018 and now that roughly a year has…

WSOP 2018 Photos Part III

WSOP 2018 Photos Part II

Morro Bay - May 2018

Took a trip out to Morro Bay before the WSOP kicked into full gear, to spend a little time with my brother and sister-in-law.

2018 WSOP Photos

Just some random pics from the 2018 WSOP.

Black Friday Anniversary

I can’t help but think how Black Friday was, in a way, a new beginning, a time when you wash away the old to begin anew.

The Blockchain Is Not a Product

People need to quit thinking of blockchain as the product and start thinking of blockchain as a tool. Ultimately, that is all it really is and in a few years the only people that will…

I Quit Facebook Before It Was Cool to Quit Facebook

The recent backlash against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal has made me all the more confident that one of my New Year's resolutions to give up Facebook for 2018,…

Color Run Las Vegas 2018

The wife and I have been doing the Color Run here in Las Vegas for the last several years. Always a fun event with thousands of people.

WSOP 2017 Pics Part II

Now that the final table for the 2017 WSOP Main Event has been set, here are some additional photos I took over the summer. Daniel Negreanu making a deep run. Hustle and bustle in the…

WSOP 2017 Pics

Here's a collection of random photos I've taken since the start of the WSOP. I'll probably have another post at some point with more pics. An empty parking lot days before the open of…

Photos From the WSOP 2015 Part II

Photos From the WSOP 2015 Part I

Just some photos I took at the WSOP this year. Didn't really get to sling the camera as much as I would have liked but tried to take a day here and there and just shoot whatever.

Global Entry Program - The Only Way to Fly

If you travel outside of the US more than once or twice a year, I highly recommend applying for the Global Entry program.

The Poker World Finds Twitter

Twitter recently announced a tool that lets you go back in time and find your very first tweet . So I decided to play around with it a bit and dig up the first tweets from the poker…

Would PokerStars in NJ Have Been a Slam Dunk?

A lot of people have been speculating about how the New Jersey market would have been shaped if PokerStars would have received a license to operate in the state. Most of the speculation…

WSOP Launches in New Jersey

Today marks the beginning of the soft launch period for online gaming in New Jersey. What that technically means is that only invited players can access real money gaming and only during…