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Kudos to Karim for calling it like it is. Wilkins said: "These days networks like iPoker, Entraction, Boss and Microgaming will seemingly give an online skin to anyone with a few hundred…
Read the articleWell, no sooner had I finished posting about William Hill's stance on rakeback when I go back over to eGaming Review's site and see that Mr. Marcus got pwned by affiliates who pointed…
Read the articleThere was a recent article in eGaming Review quoting William Hill Online COO Peter Marcus making an appeal to the industry to reject rakeback [what is rakeback?]. He pleaded with the…
Read the articleThis has nothing to do with poker but I was just so blown away when I read it. Man uses nail clippers in DIY circumcision A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers…
Read the articleExclusive Report Learn how you could make a living playing poker. While some players will happily move site for a percentage point higher rakeback deal [what is rakeback?], there are…
Read the articleOver the last few years a very disturbing trend has emerged in the online poker world. It's disturbing because it costs a lot of money and there is no way to measure its success. The…
Read the articleLast night I went out with a bunch of friends to a club called 808 on Royal City Avenue (RCA). The one and only Grandmaster Flash was the featured DJ. For those of you too young to…
Read the articleSeveral weeks ago an old friend from high school pinged me on Facebook and told me that one of our mutual friends, John James, was in the hospital receiving chemo-therapy. During junior…
Read the articleI read an article the other day on Casino Gambling Web that quoted online gaming legal expert I. Nelson Rose as saying: I. Nelson Rose, a gambling law expert at Whittier Law School, has…
Read the articleWay back in 2006 when the UIGEA first passed I made some posts detailing how easy it would be for the US government to shut down online gaming in the US. I took a lot of heat for those…
Read the articleSeveral weeks ago in Amsterdam Jeremy Enke and I were having a discussion about what happens if they legalize poker in the US. Unfortunately we got cut off because his hotel was to the…
Read the articleIt's been awhile since my last post here so now that I'm a little more settled in I thought I would share a little about what I've been doing while I've been so very quiet. The big news…
Read the articleI just finished reading the book House Of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism by William D. Cohan. It's basically the a fairly good back story on how Bear Stearns went…
Read the articleBefore I got into the online poker industry I was always amazed at how much money poker rooms threw at affiliates. I thought they were stupid because most of the sites that were…
Read the articleAnd for a totally different angle on what playing poker is like in Phuket: It's a pretty funny video but it takes a little while to get to the punch line.
Read the articleExclusive Report Learn how you could make a living playing poker. There's probably no single topic that divides the online poker industry more than rakeback [what is rakeback?].…
Read the articleOver the last several years I've done several posts refuting the argument that online poker is rigged. In fact, I've gone as far as make fun of people who insist that online poker is…
Read the articleA lot of people ask me what the best way to improve their poker game is and for many of them it would be if they quit playing poker. But there's another group of people who may be decent…
Read the articleSorry to go all non-poker on you but I read this article in the Financial Times and beer came out of the beer coming out of my nose. Banker fury over tax 'witch-hunt' By FT reporters…
Read the articleOne of the benefits of only having something like four channels in English is you are forced to get to watch some pretty unusual programming you might not otherwise watch. Case in point…
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