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- Boss Going Offline or Hyped Up Story?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Boss Media who runs IPN has been ordered by a Maltese court to cease commercial activity from their servers based in Malta before September 18th 2008. PokerTrillion.com who initiated the suit against Boss Media is hyping up this story to [...]
- Online Poker Industry Report Aug 18, 2008
Looks like the summer slowdown is kicking in. The overall market was off about 5.5%. A lot of that came from the 7.5% slide by Stars. Microgaming had the biggest loss at 10% which followed a slightly down week the prior and an off week two weeks ago. They’ve slipped below Pacific and seem to [...]
- When is a Met Guarantee Still an Overlay?
When we see these big guaranteed tournaments it’s often easy to look at the number of people who registered and the amount contributed to the prize pool and make a determination about whether the guarantee was met or not. While, technically, from a player’s perspective this is all that matters, from a business perspective there [...]
- Party Poker’s Biggest Bad Beat Jackpot in History
The Party Poker BBJP went north of $1 million this week and below is the hand that took it down. Full house beat by, quads, beat by a royal flush.
***** Hand History for Game 7299704817 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold’em Game Table (Limit) - Thu Aug 14 23:11:13 EDT 2008
Table Jackpot 1419013 (Real Money) [...]
- Is 2+2 Deleting Sticky Posts to Quality Content?
According to the rumor mill, Mason Malmuth has ordered 2+2 mods to pull links to quality strategy posts on the popular message board because they may be impacting book sales.
There was even a post on the News, Views, and Gossip forum but it says that it’s been moved.
But if you click [...]
- Being a Successful Poker Player by Fredrik Paulsson
Bad news first:
Unless you’re one of the very select few who have the smarts, the necessary love of the game, enough gamble in you and the almost super-human discipline required to make it to the very highest echelons of poker players, chances are pretty low you’re going to get rich off of this game. [...]
- Minimum Wager by Tommy Angelo
When I play no-limit hold’em, sometimes I’m a minimum wager wagerer. And I don’t mean minimum wager wagerer as in ‘one who tries to bet the smallest amount that will get them to fold if they have nothing,’ such as when the flop is A-A-6 rainbow and a bluffer bets half the pot or thereabouts. [...]
- Writers Wanted
If anyone is interested in submitting articles to appear on Bill’s Blog, please ping me and let’s chat.
I remember way back in the day some of us poker bloggers were having a discussion about how do new bloggers get any love. The common answer is that if you’re creating good content then people will [...]
- Gibraltar Update
Since I get so many "How’s life in Gibraltar?" emails I thought I would do a rambling, stream of consciousness, post about how things have been going.
Twilight Zone
Last night I checked my mail and was surprised to find something other than my phone bill. See, I have almost all of my mail delivered to [...]
- Today’s “Doh!” Moment Brought To You By Betfair
Betfair recently ran a promotion called Completely Nuts where Betfair would award $100K to the first person who won the Annette $20K Guarantee as well as either the $6k or $5k guaranteed tournament in the same month. Because you’re reading about it here you’ve probably already guessed that it took all of one day [...]
