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August 2008

You Smell Good by Tommy Angelo

August 24, 2008 Guest Writers

My friend Jack is from China. When he speaks English, he does so with a very heavy accent, and his word selection has on occasion caused me to reach for my pen to capture the moment. Like this one time… We were playing shorthanded $40-80 limit hold’em in the middle of the night. A hand [...]

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The Value of Content

August 23, 2008 Poker

I received an email tonight from Chris at Part Time Poker informing me that the submitted story I posted here titled History of Texas Hold’em was stolen from his site. Not wanting to jump to conclusions I emailed James Hatfield from The Absolute Nuts asking him to clarify. Before Chris James could answer in full [...]

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History of Texas Hold’em

August 21, 2008 Poker

Invented by nomadic Druidsin the 3rd Century, its name originally could only be pronounced by a well-squeezed wolf. However, after the “Treat Thy Wolves the Way Thee Would Like to be Treated Act” of early Druid law, the name of the game was changed to “Toth Hoth Thoth” and could be easily spoken by humans, [...]

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Boss Going Offline or Hyped Up Story?

August 19, 2008 Online Poker

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 make it seem like Boss Media and IPN will be completely offline on Sept 18.  [...]

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Online Poker Industry Report Aug 18, 2008

August 18, 2008 Poker

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 [...]

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When is a Met Guarantee Still an Overlay?

August 17, 2008 Online Poker

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 [...]

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Party Poker’s Biggest Bad Beat Jackpot in History

August 15, 2008 Online Poker

The PartyPoker 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) [...]

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Is 2+2 Deleting Sticky Posts to Quality Content?

August 13, 2008 Poker

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 [...]

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Being a Successful Poker Player by Fredrik Paulsson

August 12, 2008 Poker

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. [...]

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