Game Back On(Line) at WSOP
Back when I penned my first poker blog post nearly 10 years ago I had absolutely no idea where it would lead. At the time my only agenda was to document what I was learning playing…
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Online Poker Cheating in the US
Alan C. Lawhon posted a response on a thread over at 2+2 and emailed me asking if I might offer some insight from an operator's perspective on the topic of cheating in online poker and…
Read the articleBook Review: The Mental Game of Poker 2
I just got done reading Jared Tendler and Barry Carter's follow up to their ground-breaking book The Mental Game of Poker , The Mental Game of Poker 2: Proven Strategies for Improving…
Read the articleSongkran in Thailand
Songkran is a holiday in Thailand that I avoided for many years. For those not familiar with it, Songkran is a festival in Thailand that the Thais call their New Year (though they also…
Read the articleBook Review: Poker Hero
Poker Hero by Florian Roßner is one of the best poker training books I've read in a long, long, long time. In fact, one of my only complaints about the book is that it should be twice as…
Read the articleOnline Poker in 2013
Several years ago I wrote a couple of articles about the gap between online poker software and what players had come to expect from other, non-poker related, products. You can scan over…
Read the articleGreg Raymer's Prostitution Arrest
Unless you've been living under a rock the last couple of days, you've probably heard that 2004 WSOP Main Event winner, and all around good-guy, Greg Raymer was busted in a prostitution…
Read the articleShip It Holla Ballas!: How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker's Loudest, Craziest, and Richest Crew
There was a lot of buzz going around about the Ship It Holla Ballas book going around and I had actually added it to my Amazon Wish List planning on buying it. Fortunately the publisher…
Read the articleChris Ferguson Talks Business
Considering Ferguson's recent settlement with the DOJ and his claim to have no idea that Ray Bitar was running his multi-billion dollar business into the ground, you gotta appreciate his…
Read the articleMeeting in the Middle
I try to steer clear of non-gaming related politics on this blog mostly because I hate when people dabble in topics they are ill prepared to discuss intelligently. I remember after 9-11,…
Read the articleA Peek Behind PokerTracker 4 With Tarix
Back in a previous life I used to teach scuba diving as a hobby. That's where I met tarix. He was a video game software engineer and I was managing a software development team at eToys.…
Read the articleBlack Friday, Affiliates, and New Markets
While the impact on poker players and poker operators has been well documented not only in the poker community but also in the mainstream media, not a lot has been said about how…
Read the articleHoward Lederer 2p2 PokerCast
I finished up listening to the Howard Lederer 2p2 PokerCast with Mike and Adam last night. Another, somewhat painful, three hours of Howard rehashing the rise and fall of Full Tilt…
Read the articleThe Lederer Files: My Reactions
View the original embedded media I think this sums up my reactions to various Howard Lederer statements made in Part I of the Parvis interview.
Read the articleThe Lederer Files Parts 5, 6, and 7
Just got done watching parts 5, 6, and 7 and it's just more of Howard seeming a bit out of touch. Howard laments the fact that people didn't seem to be working towards resolution and…
Read the articleA Review of The Lederer Files (Parts I - IV) and Andy Bloch Interview
I've watched the first four episodes of the Howard Lederer interviews multiple times since they were released. I've read and re-read Andy Bloch's interview with Diamond Flush. I've begun…
Read the articleZynga Real Money Poker: Hype or Reality?
Anybody who has been reading this site for a while may remember that I've written about Zynga real money poker in the past. Originally, I wanted to dispel the idea that Zynga was…
Read the articleAll In: The Poker Movie - Product Review
View the original embedded media I recently had the opportunity to screen a copy of the Douglas Tirola documentary, All In: The Poker Movie . I'm not sure what I was expecting. I had…
Read the articleWho Wants to be a Millionaire?
Well, you better know something about Full Tilt Poker :-) Hat tip to Pokerati and Al Can't Hang for the pic.
Read the articleDo you miss Shana Hiatt on the WPT?
View the original embedded media Shana Hiatt returns to the WPT for an interview with Marianela Pereyra
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