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Zynga Ready for Real Money Gaming or Trying to Hide Failures?Chilly posted a link to a blog that is “dedicated the puss that is Bill Rini.” I’m unsure of how to take that. Not because the site is derogatory but because I don’t quite understand which defintion of “puss” the writer is shooting for. Could the author mean a face or a mouth (I hit him in the puss)? Is the author implying that I’m some sort of feline? Perhaps in future posts the author will expand on his thoughts so as to clairfy.
Really though, I was literally laughing out loud when I saw that site. I can’t get this picture out of my mind of some guy reading my blog and becoming visibly angry. I see this scene with the guy steaming saying “Yeah? Ok, well I know how I’m going to get back at this Bill Rini guy. I’m going to go over to Blogger and create a blog and call him names! Yes! See how he likes that!” Then he spends a half hour setting up an account and putting together his first post. Afterward he sits back glowing with a combination of pride and anger, “Screw you, Bill Rini! How do you like that?” That’s just such an amusing image. To know that I angered someone so much that they went to all the trouble to set up a Blogger site so they could make themselves feel better is, well, flattering in a way.
I really don’t get why what I’ve been saying has caused such violent reactions in some people. First there was Dr. Phil who seemed to overuse the word “pussy” and then suddenly disappeared when I noted that I knew from his IP address he was posting from Dublin. Then someone posting as “Bill Rini’s Conscience” starts off his comment with “You disgusting fat fuck.” I noticed that “Bill Rini’s Conscience” was using an ISP in Amsterdam and then over the next few days someone started using my Contact link to send me a bunch of emails that had nothing but gibberish in them. I checked my logs and every one of those came from someone using the same Amsterdam ISP. Additionally, I started keep an eye on my logs and noticed that I was getting a fair bit of traffic to that particular post all from that very same Amsterdam ISP. In addition to that there have been been several anonymous emails with some pretty ugly messages.
I mean, I haven’t seen this much anger in my comment section since I wrote a series of pieces on bonus whoring. Where does anger like that come from? Hey, if I’m wrong about everything I said, well, time will prove me an idiot. To become so upset at an analysis of a bill that you feel compelled to set up websites and/or start sending me spam is really, really an unhealthy place to be at psychologically.
Anyway, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing and if you’re one of those people who find reading things you disagree with makes you unstable, perhaps it’s time you move on.
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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.
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You are such a wuss…
Of course I’m a wuss. It’s the puss part I’m talking about :-)
“The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde said that. Or was it Oscar the Grouch? I always get those two mixed up.
I’m pretty sure it was Oscar the Grouch.
People don’t like bad news and tend to try to kill the messenger.
Poor ballcap kids don’t know what to do with themselves now.
Wow. To the writer of this blog:
1. if you have beef with someone please be a man and I.D. yourself.
2. Bill Rini isn’t a hard guy to get a hold of. Email him and ask him for his phone number because you would like to talk on some issues…not hard at all.
3. Calling someone a Pu$$y is so weak and Jr. High…serious, come up with some big fancy work instead.
In any case, you are the man, Bill. I just wish people would man up and say it to peoples face…esp. an ex-soldier…it would be fun to watch the beating…heehee!
Bill Rini is Poker Puss. I always had my suspicions. But to see it in writing and smeared across the Internet on that highly trafficked and content-filled blog that Chilly found… Well, I must say, it’s just heartbreaking.
You forgot the part where the guy then googled Bill Rini Biatch. He set up the blog, etc. and then googled it too. Thats how I found it, I am like G#6 for “Bill Rini Biatch”.
And an on almost unrelated note, a Google search on Bill + Rini + poker + biatch produces only 24 hits. Not even a quorum’s worth.
Haley,
I will have you know that I am absolutely infuriated that in my X number of years of blogging that I haven’t been popular enough to be called a biatch by more people. I will have to try harder.
Bill