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If everyone who has ever asked me how to go about learning to play winning poker just read, and more importantly, mastered, everything Ed Miller has published they would already be…
Read the articleSomeone has created a rock, paper, scissors (Roshambo) bot that wins every time. View the original embedded media
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Read the articleI'm not going to pretend I saw Black Friday coming but PokerStars and FullTilt were on a path where I'm not entirely surprised at the outcome. Going back to the passage of the UIGEA I've…
Read the articleThis tales starts on a bright Sunday morning. A day that the wife and I had planned on visiting our local cardroom and enjoying the great game of poker. My first indication that our…
Read the articleI'm not sure how I missed this in the Thai press but it appears that Ron "Mad Yank" Fanelli has received a 10 year, 3 month sentence for the murder of Wanphen Pienjai. PHUKET: Ronald…
Read the articleI was caught a little by surprise by this but Daniel Negreanu mentioned my recent blog post, What Full Tilt Should Have Said , in his recent weekly rant. Fortunately, he wasn't ranting…
Read the articleThe last couple of weeks have brought us a very angry Daniel Negraneau blasting FTP owners and execs as well as an almost apologetic point of view from the Godfather of Poker himself,…
Read the articleI swung by Commerce last weekend to get in a little Omaha and, as is my habit, I picked up copies of CardPlayer and PokerPlayer magazines which are always available in the casino. It's a…
Read the articleDon't offer poker!!! Really. It's that simple. Most sports books offer poker to their customers as a way to keep players from discovering other poker sites. They understand the tendency…
Read the articleI just got done reading Inside Poker Business' interview with Bodog VP, Jonas Odman and I really thought it was very interesting. Mostly because Bodog reveals their true motives for…
Read the articlePhil Galfond recently wrote an excellent blog post that I both wanted to draw some attention to as well as respond to as Phil invited other people to share their thoughts. In a nutshell,…
Read the articleI just got done reading Nathan BlackRain79 Williams ' new eBook, "Crushing the Microstakes" and thought I would do a quick post to let people know about it. Coming in at a whopping 251…
Read the articleI was reading a post on SpartanFox by Mark Gahagan which was pretty good but it had one big item that I disagree with. Gahagan discusses the war against better players that some sites…
Read the articleThe other day, myself, Kim Lund, and Taylor Caby on Twitter talking about Bodog's Patrick Selin's remarks in a recent interview where he referred to winning players as "sharp players."…
Read the articleI just got done reading a pre-release copy of Tri "Slowhabit" Nguyen's "How I Made My First Million from Poker." It's definitely not your typical poker book and if you've read some of…
Read the articleI've been doing a lot of light reading lately and nearly every poker magazine article is written by "a professional poker player." Likewise, watching many of the televised poker events…
Read the articleI guess this is a follow up to my previous post on bad behaviour in California card rooms. So Sunday I was out and about running errands trying to get ready to fly out of here on hey to…
Read the articleFunny enough Hard Boiled Poker covered a topic I was pondering a blog post about. I've written in the past about the poker media and how the fact that they derived a large percentage of…
Read the articleIt's been quite a long time since I've been at a bad beat jackpot table so I needed this to remind me of what one looks like. Looks like the BBJ was $100K. Not bad. View the original…
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