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As many folks know, Montel Williams is a poker player and he's even been trying to organize a poker tour. I had the pleasure of meeting him out in London during an affiliate conference…
Read the articleTamas Nador sent me a little write-up about the poker scene in South Africa for anybody who is down that way for the World Cup and gets the poker bug. The legal situation is similar to…
Read the articleIn the past I've written about the future of online poker but a rather well-known affiliate sent me an email recently and in my response I threw out a scenario that would not be very…
Read the articleI swear I've never played this game because gambling is illegal in Thailand. :-) Bpauk Daeng is a Thai gambling game that is very popular here in Thailand. It's somewhat like Baccarat…
Read the articleI was reading an interesting article about a two year old study that shows that poor people spend approximately 9% of their wages buying lottery tickets. I've always felt that this was…
Read the articleSomeone just posted a comment on my 2005 post about why online poker is not rigged and I think it brings up some interesting points I haven't necessarily covered before. So instead of…
Read the articleOkay, so where we left off was that I was going to bail down to Hua Hin with my friends. That we did. No pics to post at the moment though because my laptop got completely hosed (more on…
Read the articleI kind of get a kick out of how all so many blogs and poker news sites get so excited whenever some relatively minor development happens in regards to the legalization of online poker in…
Read the articleJust the other week UltimateBet and Absolute seemed to crack down on players having an account on each skin on the CEREUS network . This week they seemed to have done a complete 180 and…
Read the articleWhile most of my posts typically defend rakeback and rakeback affiliates (since I am a rakeback affiliate myself) I'm also quick to point out when rakeback is a bad idea. I recently…
Read the articlePokerati posted recently regarding rumors that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will introduce a bill to legalizing online poker. DanM speculated: Hmm, interesting. Now the purpose of…
Read the articleI can't find the official announcement from PokerStars but I see the following story posted word for word on several different websites. I'll link to one of them just in case anyone…
Read the articleDominik Kofert recently emailed me to make me aware of an analysis document they had produced over at PokerStrategy.com . Dominik is someone I've had the pleasure of working with on a…
Read the articleThere has been a lot of talk recently about Full Tilt's new Rush Poker. If you're not familiar with it, basically the idea is that instead of waiting for hands, the moment you are out of…
Read the articleI mentioned not too long ago that things were starting to heat up around Bangkok. Fugitive former PM Thaksin was about to find out from the Thai supreme court whether or not the…
Read the articleI had the pleasure of meeting a local musician here in Bangkok the other night. Actually I had seen him playing over at Moonshine's once or twice but he stopped in to say hello to my…
Read the articleIt was recently announced that Full Tilt Poker is placing a 3% cap on margins rakeback affiliates can offer. What that means is that Full Tilt was once telling affiliates that you can…
Read the articleIt's not often that you see a conservative website rip apart a Republican but Big Government does exactly that. They focus on Kyl's childish attempt to block Treasury nominees in order…
Read the articleDan over at Pokerati.com posted a news bit about SEGA's new poker room. Unfortunately, since it's closed to US and Japanese players you can't even view the site if you're coming from one…
Read the articleI just ran across this article on Bluff about Tell Gaming offering stakes in their poker room for loyal players. Online poker site and casino www.tellgaming.com is giving players the…
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