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July 2009

The Week That Was July 6 – July 13

July 13, 2009 Online Poker

A very interesting week. WSOP well into the grind now. William Hill Online COO Peter Marcus shouts into the wind about rakeback, then backpedals when affiliates become critical of his comments, and finally Rake The Rake co-founder Karim Wilkins blasts Marcus and tells him the problem is with the skins not the rakeback affiliates. Also [...]

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Ongame’s New P5 Engine Not Well Received

July 13, 2009 Online Poker

I didn’t want to be unfair and just single out Full Tilt for problems with their last update so it should be noted that Ongame which is launching their new P5 Engine hasn’t had things going its way either. Between June 9th and the 16th they rolled out the P5 update to each of their [...]

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Pain for Full Tilt Players Caused by Software Update

July 13, 2009 Online Poker

I haven’t been playing much recently but I went to login to the Full Tilt software on my Mac and I received the normal “Yo, we need to upgrade your software, dude” (I might be paraphrasing there) message. Nothing too much of note there since I had read that Tilt had made some major upgrades. [...]

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Drawing to a Pair

July 12, 2009 Travel

Well, I haven’t had much time for writing but I thought I would give a small update before I had back to Bangkok. Thursday evening I did my first Thai class. Pretty basic stuff. Introducing yourself and saying where you’re from. I have three other people in my class. One guy is German and is [...]

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Poker Affiliate University

July 12, 2009 Online Poker

I just wanted to give a quick shout-out to Jeremy Enke and give people a heads-up about his new site Poker Affiliate University. It’s a really great resource that tries to educate affiliates on how to get in the business or improve their results if they’re already in the game. I haven’t made it through [...]

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Learning Thai and Doing What I Was Hoping Never to Do

July 9, 2009 General Ramblings

Later on today I start my first actual Thai lessons. I get the informal lessons from Thais who introduce certain words to me or try to explain to me why Ratchadamri spelled in Thai has a mystery “M” (ราชดำร = R-ah-cha-d-ah-ri as far as I can tell). And I’ve listened to tapes and have a [...]

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eGaming Review Aug Edition

July 9, 2009 Online Poker

If you’ve gone over to the eGaming Review site to check out the stories I’ve linked to concerning William Hill’s stance on rakeback and affiliates you might have noticed the following footer on the articles: Marcus’ comments will be published in full in the eGaming Review August edition’s special rakeback feature, which also includes views [...]

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888 and Party Gaming Agree With Me on Legalized Gaming in the US

July 8, 2009 Is Online Poker Legal?

Last month I posted an article about what would really happen if online gaming was legalized in the US. I’ll spare you reading the entire boring post and just pluck out the most important part: Any legalization of online gaming will come with a regulatory body who will determine who can and cannot offer gaming [...]

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Karim Wilkins Speaks Out on Mr. Marcus’ Comments

July 8, 2009 Online Poker

Kudos to Karim for calling it like it is. Wilkins said: “These days networks like iPoker, Entraction, Boss and Microgaming will seemingly give an online skin to anyone with a few hundred dollars and a small database of players. And it’s a majority of these skins that are cannibalising existing network traffic, by contacting players [...]

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