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February 2005

A Couple of Nights At Commerce

February 27, 2005 Poker

What a crazy poker weekend so far. After swapping a few phone calls with HDouble we decided to hit Commerce Friday night. Seems all the poker pros haven’t left Commerce just yet. While waiting for Henry I spot two of my favorite players (for what should be obvious reasons), Clonie Gowen and Cindy Violette working [...]

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Party Affiliate Problems?

February 25, 2005 Poker

I wrote about a recent incident that I had with Party not properly crediting me with a sign-up. I haven’t thought much about it since then but I ran across a post on RGP that pointed to this thread where someone is suggesting that Party may be offering affiliate signups a better deposit bonus and [...]

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How to Outplay Waitresses the World Champions Way

February 25, 2005 Poker

A waitress had asked Phil what he wanted to drink about 2 hours into the first day, and Phil had giving a remarkable display of composure and table talk. He never revealed what he wanted whilst simultaneously trying to put the waitress off track. Sure enough, when she returned with a rum and coke, Phil [...]

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US Gaming Giant Harrah’s Joins Singapore Casino Race

February 24, 2005 Poker News

According to the Singapore Business Times: “US gaming giant Harrah’s on Wednesday became the latest international gaming firm to enter the race to build Singapore’s first casino.” Being the globetrotting scuba diver that I am, I would love to see some casinos open up in the south-east Asian (SEA) part of the world. Pop down [...]

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The World Poker Bloggers Tour Aladdin Classic

February 23, 2005 Poker

CJ over at Up For Anything has posted an announcement with details on the next WPBT Classic event. June 4th at the Aladdin Casino in LV during the WSOP events. Hopefully with such a big game in town we’ll be able to draw some poker pros to come and hang with us again at this [...]

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Sign O’ The Times

February 20, 2005 Poker

While waiting for my flight out of LAX, I cruised into one of the various sundry shops and there’s Daniel Negreanu’s pug staring at me. Yes, the LAX wall o’ magazines had Card Player Magazine (the Daniel “Player of the Year” edition). Even more telling, in regards to the popularity of the sport, hard-core financial [...]

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Well, I’m Off

February 18, 2005 Poker

Tomorrow I’m off to NY and NJ on business until next Friday so I probably won’t have much poker stuff to post unless I can make it down to AC. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who volunteered to help on the RSS/XML aggregator idea. I’ll try to whip together a rough spec while I’m [...]

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LA Poker Bloggers List

February 18, 2005 Poker

Sign up for the LA Poker Bloggers List at lapoker at goodtimeslist.com. [UPDATE:] This is a mailing list for Los Angeles area poker bloggers looking to hook up with other poker bloggers to hit the casinos. The idea is that someone can throw out a post to the mailing list saying “Hey, I’m thinking about [...]

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Follow Up: Feedback Needed

February 15, 2005 Poker

Thanks for the feedback both on the board and via email. Great stuff. Part 1: I’ve created a mailing list called lapoker at goodtimeslist.com. You can send a subscribe request to lapoker-subscribe. It’s a subscription moderated list which means that I’ll have to approve you before you’re added to the list but once on the [...]

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