When is a Met Guarantee Still an Overlay?
When we see these big guaranteed tournaments it's often easy to look at the number of people who registered and the amount contributed to the prize pool and make a determination about…
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Gibraltar Update
Since I get so many "How's life in Gibraltar?" emails I thought I would do a rambling, stream of consciousness, post about how things have been going. Twilight Zone Last night I checked…
Read the articleHow Big Is Online Poker?
Affiliate website Compatible Poker - which I always enjoy reading - ran a news piece that caught my eye: 3:41am - The US DOJ has confiscated $24 million from Bodog according to a Forbes…
Read the articleBodog Gets Nicked For $24 Million By The DOJ
Looks like the DOJ has taken up Calvin Ayre on the challenge he offered on the cover of Forbes "Catch me if you can." The DOJ has recently seized $24 million from bank accounts…
Read the articleTokwiro Releases UB Cheating Scandal Statement
It looks as if Tokwiro, parent company of UB and Absolute, has issued a statement regarding their investigation into the cheating happening over at UB. I've included the statement below.…
Read the articleKanhawake Gaming Commission Reads Bill's Poker Blog
Either that or I have good timing. :-) No sooner had I fired off my post expressing disappointment regarding KGC, UB, and Absolute's failure to offer something of substance in regards to…
Read the articleBe Careful What You Wish For
I was playing devil's advocate the other day and I was wondering what if we were close to getting legalized and regulated online gaming in the US. If I was anti-gaming and realized that…
Read the articleBecoming a Winning Poker Player
Yesterday I talked about the importance of not spewing chips and today I wanted to explore the opposite side of that equation in terms of how to make your opponents put more chips into…
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This comes from the Poker Network site where rmh123 has the following to say : The facts! I have just spoken to Tony G who is currently in Russia and not happy! Tony told me that he paid…
Read the articlePokerNews Gets Their Panties All in a Bunch
The other day I posted about how the WSOP is beginning to bore me and today I would like to take a look at something I consider to be a black mark on the both the industry and the event.…
Read the articleHow Small Poker Mistakes Add Up to Big Losses
One of the things that prevents many people from moving up limits in poker is a failure to realize how costly seemingly small mistakes are. I thought I would try to demonstrate what a…
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Tonight I was able to witness something you only can only appreciate as an expat living abroad. I watched Spain play Germany in the Euro 2008 football (Americans can read that as soccer)…
Read the articleUltimate Bet Comes Clean . . . . Sorta
Ultimate Bet issued a press release detailing the results of their investigation of the suspected NioNio superuser account. If you were not aware of the cheating scandal over at UB you…
Read the articleDo The Math
I ran across a funny little post that Miss Beth put together at College Poker Tips describing a very complex EV calculation in playing home poker games. Many people think that if they…
Read the articleEverybody's a Winner
I was riding the BTS to Siam station and when I got off the train I had a gaggle of Westerners in front of me. There were three girls and a guy and they sounded US to me. In fact, it's…
Read the articleThe Definitive Guide to Online Poker Cheating
With all of the recent scandals involving online poker cheating I thought I would take a few paragraphs to describe all of the various ways people can cheat at online poker. A definitive…
Read the articleAmsterdam, Affiliates, and Models
As some of you may have picked up from my Twitter updates I was off to Amsterdam this last weekend for the Casino Affiliate Conference. I wanted to get out and spend some time with…
Read the articleFold or Check?
I have been having a debate about a topic and thought I would throw it out to my readers to give me some additional data points. There are some players of online poker who feel that it…
Read the articleEyes Wide Shut
Some friends of mine had a party in Duquesa to celebrate dual birthdays. The theme for the evening was the film Eyes Wide Shut except without the sucky parts like Tom Cruise. I guess the…
Read the articleTwo Interesting Articles on Online Poker
For those of you craving some poker content; feast away: I ran across two interesting articles the other day I thought I would share. First comes from The Sentinel and profiles a young…
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