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From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Google’s NoFollow Tag is a Joke

July 28, 2008 General Ramblings

Over this weekend I noticed that my Page Rank on Google shot up to PR8 from PR3 for about an hour. I thought perhaps Google had decided to retract their penalty for not no-following some of my links but I’m back at PR3 so perhaps they haven’t.
Nat Arem first picked up on the fact [...]

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KGC Needs to do the Right Thing

July 26, 2008 Is Online Poker Rigged?

The PPA has recently come out with a statement which indicates their dissatisfaction with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission’s (KGC) handling of the Absolute and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals. In a nutshell the PPA thinks the investigations need more transparency.
The KGC has been in CYA mode and issued the following press release.
Kahnawá:ke Gaming Commission (the [...]

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Sometimes You Can’t Explain Why They Do It

July 26, 2008 General Ramblings

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Online Poker Industry Report July 23, 2008

July 23, 2008 Online Poker

Sorry for the late post this week. My hard drive fried and I lost an entire day getting that replaced.
The online poker industry had a slow but positive week.
Everest must be doing something screwy (I’ll have to do more investigation on that) as their numbers have been whipsawing all over the place. They’ve been [...]

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Becoming a Winning Poker Player

July 16, 2008 Poker

Yesterday I talked about the importance of not spewing chips and today I wanted to explore the opposite side of that equation in terms of how to make your opponents put more chips into the pot when they’re behind.
It’s the hallmark of winning players at the higher levels that they know how to eek out [...]

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Online Poker Industry Report July 15, 2008

July 15, 2008 Poker

After a nice little bounce last week the overall market market slid 4.11% WOW.  I can’t say I was too surprised with that as I thought last week’s numbers were a little high.  Not much in the way of sporting events to take the European customers offline but beautiful weather throughout Europe probably didn’t help [...]

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More About Why PokerNews is Mad

July 15, 2008 Poker

This comes from the Poker Network site where rmh123 has the following to say:
The facts!
I have just spoken to Tony G who is currently in Russia and not happy! Tony told me that he paid entries for 35 people into the main event, with the aim of helping some people, but also to gain maimum [...]

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Tiffany Michelle Interview

July 15, 2008 Poker

Looks like Tiffany had her sights set on a massively huge career after she gave PokerNews the brush off. Here she is in a PokerNews interview telling her employer “Sorry PokerNews” after pondering the final table, the deals, and other things coming her way.

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PokerNews Gets Their Panties All in a Bunch

July 15, 2008 Poker

The other day I posted about how the WSOP is beginning to bore me and today I would like to take a look at something I consider to be a black mark on the both the industry and the event.
PokerNews is considering legal action against Tiffany Michelle because her agent found a loophole in her [...]

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