What I Did On My Christmas Vacation
After being in Gib for three months I was becoming a little stir crazy. Gib is nice and all but other than a few trips over the boarder to La Linea and some business travel I hadn't been…
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Sometimes Life Sucks: DuggleBogey and Full Tilt - Part II
I wanted to do a follow up post because in my haste to get a post out before heading out for the evening I may have not fully articulated my points. My bad and this is an attempt to…
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For those of you who may have missed it, fellow blogger and WBPT'er DuggleBogey got Fristed recently. Someone logged into Full Tilt Poker as him and dumped DB's bankroll (or at least the…
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WARNING NO POKER CONTENT This is a long overdue follow up to my post London and India . Over the next several days I would come to hate the Marriott. Not the entire chain, just this…
Read the articlePPA Needs State and Regional Directors
Here's an email being sent out by the Poker Players Alliance Dear PPA Member: In 2007, the Poker Players Alliance will be undertaking a nationwide campaign to raise awareness and recruit…
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As you may have noted from my previous emails about the UIGEA, I've been looking for the Poker Player's Alliance to move things to the next level with this new Congress. Michael…
Read the articleIggy Folds
Iggy the dwarf sized blogger with Paul Bunyan sized heart has decided to kill off Guiness and Poker . This finally brings to an end years of Iggy's threats to hang it all up and close…
Read the articleThe F-Bomb Rule and Misguided Pokerblog.com Writers
On the surface this would seem like a reasonable argument but let's look at it a little closer. The F-Bomb Rule still does not work. I wrote a two part article about this last year but…
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WARNING NO POKER CONTENT Via the marvels of the Internet it may not be obvious but I've been traveling quite a bit recently. I've got writer's cramp from filling out so many landing…
Read the articlePass The Bill Lose The Hill
When the UIGEA originally passed the House of Representatives - then known as HR4411 - most press carried the little soundbite from John Kindt , a business professor at the University of…
Read the articleOnline Poker is Doomed
In news that is sure to rock the online poker world, Pamela Anderson has decided to call it quits on her online poker room PamelaPoker.com. Anderson (shown here with Kid Rock), who is…
Read the articleDemocrats Take Control - UIGEA Still in Force
Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet. - The Wolf, Pulp Fiction Yes, it was a solid day for the good guys on Tuesday (assuming you think the Democrats are the good…
Read the articleHow Did Poker Players Make Out in This Election?
I recently posted a list compiled by Let the People Play of poker player's worst enemies in Congress. Let's see how we did so far. Enemies of poker are on the left with their opponents…
Read the articleHastert's Role in the UIGEA
The Daily Kos has a fairly good writeup on the entire struggle over the last 10 years to get some sort of gambling ban through Congress. While many have been blaming Bill Frist over…
Read the articleEnemies of Poker
I haven't completely vetted this list but this is the Enemies of Poker list put together by Let the People Play. Ted "The Internet is a Series of Tubes" Stevens (R - AK) Richard Shelby…
Read the articleUIGEA Update: Financial Processing
One of the things that I speculated about when I first analyzed the impact of the UIGEA was that the real force of this law was in drying up the money supply. Cut off the money and you…
Read the articleAn Interview With Poker Coach Tommy Angelo
Somewhere in between all of the craziness of the UIGEA I spent some time on the phone with Tommy Angelo. Those of you who've spent some time on 2+2 probably know Tommy from his brilliant…
Read the articleHacking Video Poker
Really interesting story about some kids who decided to buy a video poker machine, decompile the code, and figure out a way to beat the system. Everything went according to plan until…
Read the articleFull Contact Poker Statement to US Players
Attention U.S. players: As you probably know by now, the Ongame Network (provider of FCP's poker software) was forced to make the difficult decision of restricting U.S. residents from…
Read the articleBob "The Coach" Ciaffone Weighs In On The UIGEA
Bob Ciaffone has an interesting take on the UIGEA. His view is that this is all a precursor to legalized gambling in the US. Though he doesn't think we'll see it before 2009, what gives…
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