The PPA is Pathetic
The PPA just sent me this email: I don't know what universe the PPA lives in but the DOJ's decision had nothing to do with any grassroots pressure generated from PPA members. Sixty-five…
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The European Offensive
It looks like everyone is taking a crack at Stars and Tilt right now. Everyone is attempting to kick them while they're down and take advantage of the fact that their marketing staff is…
Read the articleThe New Standard in Online Poker
If you haven't noticed a trend by now, I'm sort of disappointed that the online poker industry has failed to really embrace the social media world. Much like AOL in the late 1990's many…
Read the articleOnline Poker Needs an Attitude Adjustment
Again, just like yesterday's post, The Value of Free , today's post is partially inspired by Kim Lund's great post Why PokerRoom.com was five years ahead of its time. And it's also…
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I was just reading Kim Lund's excellent post Why PokerRoom.com was five years ahead of its time and I couldn't help pick up on one of the points he made about social media (which…
Read the articleWhy Social Media is a Fail for Most Online Poker Sites
View the original embedded media sme_bw2010_jay_baer_v1 from Michael A. Stelzner on Vimeo . I was watching this video and couldn't help but think about all of the mistakes online poker…
Read the articleCake Poker Network Being Bought By PokerListings.com?
PokerNewsDaily is reporting that Cake Poker Network is to be purchased by PokerListings . That combined with the negotiations between 888 and Ladbrokes and the bwin / Party Gaming merger…
Read the articleThe BLUFF Power 20
Bluff Magazine has recently released their Power 20 of 2011. Like my amigo, F-Train , I and 100 other voters were asked to submit votes for who we thought were, as of this moment, the…
Read the articleThe Online Poker Arms Race Revisited
I wanted to revisit a post I wrote not too long ago called The Online Poker Arms Race . Since that post Greg Raymer and PokerStars have announced that the two have decided to part ways.…
Read the articleWPT Staging a Comeback?
I was wanting to write about this but haven't gotten around to it until now. According to Variety the World Poker Tour has re-upped with Fox Sports Net for another 3 seasons and in the…
Read the articleBoycott Daniel Negreanu?
Earlier this month Gambling 911 ran a story titled, "Negreanu Poker Website Needs to be Boycotted." The reason for the author, Jagajeet Chiba, to call for a boycott was because Daniel…
Read the articleMake Matusow Wins Florida State Poker Championship
Looks like Mike "The Mouth" Matusow has earned a little money to help pay off his $2 million weight loss prop bet with Ted Forrest . Now he's just $1,900,000 short. Not according to Mike…
Read the articleMatusow Can't Pay Prop Bet?
One of the things that I've really begun to dislike about the WSOP is the constant barrage of silly prop bets. To me it seems as if people are saying, "Hey, I haven't done anything…
Read the articleThe Tiffany Michelle Transcript
When I originally watched the video of Michelle Tiffany and Neil Cavuto I was having a lot of problems with the video. I don't know if that was my internet or something at Fox but I…
Read the articleTiffany Michelle on Fox . . . Ouch, That Was Painful
I started to write a very similar post to this when Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho were on the Amazing Race. During that same week they were running episodes of Celebrity Apprentice and…
Read the articleOnline Poker and Data Mining
Paul Nobles from Bluff takes a rather interesting look at the whole data mining brouhaha that's been going on of late . I started to leave a comment on the Pokerati site but my response…
Read the articleAre Online Gaming Companies Better Than Brick and Mortar Casinos?
Lou Krieger recently posted something he didn't link to the original source for so I can't vouch for the fact that it was a full and complete representation of the opinions voiced but…
Read the articleA Swing and a Miss AKA Bodog Network's Rakeback Solution
So, tell me if this sounds like a good business model: The more money you spend with us the less we value your business. If that sounds counterintuitive it's because it is. It's also the…
Read the articleHarrah's Goes with 888 for Poker Platform
I know a lot of people assumed that with former Party Gaming CEO Mitch Garber taking the helm at Harrah's WSOP Online division that Party was as good as owned by Harrah's now that Party…
Read the articleParty Poker Takes Huge Gamble on World Poker Tour
By this point everyone and his or her mother has heard that Party Gaming came in and stole WPT from Gamynia Limited. I actually heard rumors about Party being the mysterious "other…
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