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June 2010

The Week That Was

June 30, 2010 Online Poker

First off, my apologies for not getting this post off yesterday. I sort of got caught up in coding mode on version 3.0 of Thailand Friends and couldn’t get into a writing mood. Ahh, where to start? Hmmm, how about some (more) complaining about Feedburner? Since I last got my panties in a bunch I’ve [...]

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Possibly The Greatest Invention Evar!

June 24, 2010 General Ramblings

Gentlemen, I introduce to you, the Teletransporter.

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Strange Spam

June 23, 2010 General Ramblings

I don’t know why but I’ve been getting a lot of spam both via email and in the comments that are odd in that they seem to have no purpose. Here’s one I received today. Oil hovers below $78 after US crude supplies jump Predicting an end to Roe v. Wade On the contrary, the [...]

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iPhone Goodness on Bill’s Poker Blog

June 22, 2010 General Ramblings

I just installed a WordPress plugin called WPtouch will should make viewing Bill’s Poker Blog on your iPhone a much better experience. If that previous sentence made no sense to you . . . allow me to explain. Bill’s Poker Blog uses WordPress to manage the website. This new plugin, WPtouch reformats Bill’s Poker Blog [...]

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Why Many Online Poker Rooms Are Failing

June 21, 2010 Online Poker

Awhile back I wrote an article titled, Why Affiliates Will Always Trump Online Poker Rooms, the received a lot emails from poker room employees and some side-discussions with affiliates. I guess it was a self-selecting group but most of the people who wrote me agreed with me but couldn’t do so in public. One of [...]

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The Week That Was

June 21, 2010 Online Poker

In Europe us Americans are seen as a joke when it comes to soccer. In fact, I can’t even begin to count the number of times someone has said “Football, oh, sorry mate, I mean soccer,” and then burst out into hilarious laughter. I guess on the flip side it goes to show that most [...]

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The Perfect Storm

June 18, 2010 Online Poker

I was reading a piece on Bluff’s website* about the “World Series Effect” on online poker sites. Generally, during the WSOP many sites temporarily lose some of their best players who opt for live games. It’s not a huge drop off as the online poker market tends to follow the cycle below (the numbers are [...]

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Compounding Bad Decisions

June 17, 2010 Online Poker

Back in April I shared my thoughts on Betsson’s strategy of opening a separate room on Entraction and offering rakeback. Now they have Betsson and Betsson Euro Tables. The Betsson Euro tables are Euro denominated (surprise) and on the Entraction network which apparently is allowing skins to offer rakeback to their players. In my previous [...]

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Image Dump – Bangkok Protests, Hua Hin, and Random Stuff

June 16, 2010 General Ramblings

Ever since I had to move because of the protests I’ve been somewhat internet challenged. I could hijack a wireless signal but the speed was close to nothing. Maybe some low-level web surfing and email but that’s about it. I tried to upload some photos one day and left the uploader going about 18 hours. [...]

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