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March 2006

How To Play The Hammer

March 31, 2006 Online Poker

Next time you want to regale the blogger community with your tales of playing the hammer, stop and ask yourself if your story is better than the photo above. This is a cash game, folks. A $10,000 pot with The Hammer!!!! Mike “The Mouth” Matusow represents.

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I Screwed Up – A Response To ZeeJustin

March 29, 2006 Online Poker

ZeeJustin has broken his silence to address what he did. While I give the man a golf clap for finally owning up to many of the things he attempted to dismiss in his initial post on 2+2, I did find a few things worthy of comment. I screwed up, on a practical, maturity and most [...]

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Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions on 2+2

March 29, 2006 Online Poker

Should I go pro? No. If you have to ask a bunch of strangers on a message board, you don’t have the self reliance needed to be a professional player. I’m 12 years old and going to Vegas with my parents next month. Are there any poker rooms that won’t card me? None of them [...]

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Unintentional Comedy

March 29, 2006 Online Poker

You might want to hurry because there’s a good chance they might take it down but this has to be the worst product ad I’ve ever seen. The product; Poker Genius. The comedy; An eight minute webcast. The video starts off with a massive overbet with pocket aces to pick up the blinds. Then you [...]

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New Allegations of Prisoner Abuse

March 28, 2006 Poker

WASHINGTON D.C. The White House today was hit today with another blow in the global war on terror as more allegations of prisoner abuse surfaced. Leaked transcripts of a recent interrogation of a suspected Al Qaeda member in Guantanamo Bay have shed even more doubt on the White House’s claim that the US does not [...]

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Poker Has Jumped The Shark (again)

March 27, 2006 Poker

During my little posting hiatus, Wil Wheaton popped me an email regarding a post he did on poker jumping the shark. I sent him a response and he told me I should run with it but, as I said in a previous post, I’ve been a little pre-occupied lately and never got around to it. [...]

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Lack of recent posts . . .

March 27, 2006 General Ramblings

I wanted to apologize for not posting much in the last week or so. There’s been some pretty major changes going on in my world recently – which I’ll announce at some point – that have kept me a little pre-occupied. I promise to be a good little blogger and start posting again but I [...]

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How To Make 18,000BB/100 Hands

March 21, 2006 Online Poker

According to securident, they’ve discovered a flaw in the PokerRoom.com web-based client that allows you to drain other player’s accounts. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!!! Remember kids, when you combine poker clients, sloppy programming, and HTTP, bad things can happen. Here’s to hoping they get this fixed quickly before someone actually decides to use it. Image lifted from Flickr [...]

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