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Bill's Poker Blog
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Looks like I’ll be back in Sin City for the July 4th weekend. My buddy Michael twisted my arm pretty hard so I broke down and booked a room at the Monte Carlo. Should be interesting to see how the scene has (or hasn’t) changed from the opening day of the WSOP.
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I’m not quite sure what I think of OddJack yet. At times it can be amusing but does the world really need a smarmy take on gaming? Perhaps Nick Denton’s other blogs like Gawker play to a different crowd of people who like to belittle the non-accomplishments of Manhattan’s elite but the entire tone seems [...]
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Now with Party as a public company, the mainstream press is starting to take a more serious look at the economics of the industry rather than focusing on college kids making $90,000. The latest mainstream press publication to get in on the act was The Economist which asks if online gaming is a blue-chip investment [...]
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This thread at PartyRiches.com is so rich. A guy goes on there complaining that some Google-Rank whore has stolen content from his website. Then someone reminds him that he had ripped off content from someone else on the message board just a few months ago and got caught. Here’s his well reasoned response: I just [...]
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Played in the weekly blogger tournament at HDouble‘s pad last night. It was HDouble, Mrs. HDouble, Franklin, Chris the Geek, Lance (of the infamous home game fame), Full Tilt Chris, Ryan and moi. We started off playing a little Stud Hi-Lo to mix things up a bit. Pretty normal. Nothing too good or bad to [...]
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I hereby announce The Hammer Photo Challenge! Between now and October 1st, 2005 all fans of The Hammer are invited to submit their most interesting photos of The Hammer. On October 2nd, I will confer with the voices in my head and we will pick a winner who will receive a 2+2 book of their [...]
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Well, that looks like what the voters want. I had a conversation with the Prof about possible locations but he’s a little tied up covering some other rinky-dink tournament going on in Vegas right now. I’ve also had some conversations with unnamed sources about some cool stuff we might be able to pull off for [...]
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I’ve had more than a few conversations about affiliate programs with my fellow bloggers and I’m becoming more and more convinced that any attempt to generate significant income via these programs is an exercise in futility. I know, I can already hear the gasps out there but let me explain. The typical affiliate program pays [...]
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Yes, it’s true that a raise might win the pot instantly often enough to make it worth doing. If so, go ahead and do it with seven-deuce, not ace-queen suited. Either way you will have to fold if reraised. But if you do it with ace-queen, you have in fact, made it no better than [...]
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Unfortunately Charlie Tuttle lost his battle with cancer Tuesday evening. Condolences go out to his family and to his go-the-extra-mile buddy, Spaceman. Pauly’s piece over at FoxSports tells the story pretty well.
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WPBT Tourney, Aladdin June 4, 2005 This is to certify that ______________________________________ had the dubious distinction of eliminating none other than Mr. Subliminal, one of the greatest poker players to ever grace the green felt. Even though it was the result of a tremendous suckout, this is not the time to harbor grudges toward the [...]
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While chatting with Grubby in Vegas he seemed unaware of how people were using Bloglines and other RSS feed readers. A few other folks seemed new to the subject as well so I thought I would rip out a quick post to serve as a mini-tutorial. First off, let’s quickly talk about RSS feeds and [...]
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A tech industry buddy of mine who isn’t really a poker player sent me this article on News.com about a company that is supposedly financing itself via poker playing. My response was: > > Yeah, I saw that. Sounds a little fishy to me. Others have expressed > > similar doubts. He’s making $100 – [...]
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Ok, by my count we’ve got Vegas leading the way 23 to 10 over New Orleans. I did have to double-count the people who made non-commital responses (i.e. New Orleans is cool but I like Vegas too) but unless there’s a sudden surge of voting for NO, it looks like Vegas is the clear winner. [...]
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Ok, since there was no real way to get an accurate count with so many people saying things like “X would be cool but Y would work too,” I tried just count every place that got a positive mention as a vote. As of 11:51pm PDT on 6.14.05, we have the following tallies: New Orleans: [...]
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About Bill’s Poker Blog Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
After Party Poker I spent two years living in Thailand and travelling around South East Asia. I'm currently working at the World Poker Tour in Irvine, Ca. working on exciting projects taking online poker to the next level. More about Bill Follow Me Around The WorldA semi-complete list of my travels |
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