Comments on: Playing Poker From Behind the Curtain? http://www.billrini.com/2004/03/25/playing-poker-from-behind-the-curtain/ Bill Rini's Poker Weblog Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chris Halverson http://www.billrini.com/2004/03/25/playing-poker-from-behind-the-curtain/#comment-28 Chris Halverson Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.billrini.com/?p=33#comment-28 I think Jason at pokerodyssey.com used to have a skin, but I can't find it anymore. There was also some guy on RGP who's selling one that looks like an Excel spreadsheet. Good luck on your port forwarding thing. I think you're right about doing some sort of ssh port forwarding thing _should_ work, but it may be difficult to make it work reliably. I think Jason at pokerodyssey.com used to have a skin, but I can’t find it anymore. There was also some guy on RGP who’s selling one that looks like an Excel spreadsheet.

Good luck on your port forwarding thing. I think you’re right about doing some sort of ssh port forwarding thing _should_ work, but it may be difficult to make it work reliably.

]]> By: Jason http://www.billrini.com/2004/03/25/playing-poker-from-behind-the-curtain/#comment-29 Jason Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.billrini.com/?p=33#comment-29 Stumbled across your blog on accident a few days ago, didn't plan on reading it till I saw hold 'em... now I come back to see what your up to and have gotten some valuable info! (ie- the poker room NOT to visit in the Bay area) I'm also in So. Cal and I must agree, we're quite spoiled! A friend recently moved away and complains about the poker rooms he finds elsewhere in terms of size, limits, and atmosphere. Anyhow- I may have a suggestion for your poker playing while out of the country... It's a method I've used before... Remote control your home PC from where your vacationing. (note- if you don't have a highspeed connection at both places, throw this idea out the window now) BUT- if both do you are in luck. Assuming you don't have a static IP at home, just use a free service like dyndns.org As for how to remote control... If the home PC and the away PC are both Windows XP, I recommend using the built in Remote Desktop. If they are not XP you can use many of the other solutions out there. The only good free one I know of is WinVNC (www.realvnc.com) There are many excellent pay solutions too: PcAnywhere, RAdmin, Carbon Copy, the list goes on... oh, I've never used it but www.gotomypc.com is supposed to be easy to use and free for a home user- but I've never cared look into it, I'm happy with my other solutions. If you need any help, feel free to contact... replace the ='s with @ and . jason = discessio = com Stumbled across your blog on accident a few days ago, didn’t plan on reading it till I saw hold ‘em… now I come back to see what your up to and have gotten some valuable info! (ie- the poker room NOT to visit in the Bay area) I’m also in So. Cal and I must agree, we’re quite spoiled! A friend recently moved away and complains about the poker rooms he finds elsewhere in terms of size, limits, and atmosphere.

Anyhow- I may have a suggestion for your poker playing while out of the country… It’s a method I’ve used before… Remote control your home PC from where your vacationing. (note- if you don’t have a highspeed connection at both places, throw this idea out the window now)

BUT- if both do you are in luck. Assuming you don’t have a static IP at home, just use a free service like dyndns.org

As for how to remote control… If the home PC and the away PC are both Windows XP, I recommend using the built in Remote Desktop.

If they are not XP you can use many of the other solutions out there. The only good free one I know of is WinVNC (www.realvnc.com)

There are many excellent pay solutions too: PcAnywhere, RAdmin, Carbon Copy, the list goes on…

oh, I’ve never used it but http://www.gotomypc.com is supposed to be easy to use and free for a home user- but I’ve never cared look into it, I’m happy with my other solutions. If you need any help, feel free to contact… replace the =’s with @ and .

jason = discessio = com

]]> By: Bill Rini http://www.billrini.com/2004/03/25/playing-poker-from-behind-the-curtain/#comment-30 Bill Rini Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.billrini.com/?p=33#comment-30 Jason, I like the way you think. :-) Problem is that my server is Linux. I have a dual proc box/server at home with the latest MS software on it though (thank you, MSDN) and PC Anywhere so that just may work. I don't have a static IP but they haven't changed my IP in two years so it's pretty static without being static. Only problem is I leave on Sat. and I'll only be gone a week so I don't know how much effort I really want to put into this. I was sort of hoping for a more stable solutions (using Linux) since I would love to be able to open the gates to our friends who have somewhat oppressive governments. Anyway, I hope you keep coming back around. Can't promise I'll always talk about Hold 'Em but I may bitch and moan about So Cal from time to time so maybe that will keep your interest :-) Jason, I like the way you think. :-)
Problem is that my server is Linux. I have a dual proc box/server at home with the latest MS software on it though (thank you, MSDN) and PC Anywhere so that just may work. I don’t have a static IP but they haven’t changed my IP in two years so it’s pretty static without being static. Only problem is I leave on Sat. and I’ll only be gone a week so I don’t know how much effort I really want to put into this. I was sort of hoping for a more stable solutions (using Linux) since I would love to be able to open the gates to our friends who have somewhat oppressive governments.

Anyway, I hope you keep coming back around. Can’t promise I’ll always talk about Hold ‘Em but I may bitch and moan about So Cal from time to time so maybe that will keep your interest :-)

]]> By: Jason http://www.billrini.com/2004/03/25/playing-poker-from-behind-the-curtain/#comment-31 Jason Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.billrini.com/?p=33#comment-31 oh! Wish I had read this sooner! There is a VNC distro for just about every platform you can think of! oh! Wish I had read this sooner! There is a VNC distro for just about every platform you can think of!

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