Well, to my surprise, the US did not lose to England this weekend. I guess I should have been smoking vulture brains.
It looks like the WSOP is starting to get into full swing. Some bloggers/journalists are already running out of things to write about. :-)
It should be interesting how the WSOP and the World Cup come together. Although attendance at the WSOP seems to be pretty decent so far, the World Cup is such a huge sporting event that one has to imagine that many players skipped the WSOP (or at least parts of it) for a chance to cheer their teams in South Africa.
I think an interesting stat will be how player numbers fare at the online poker rooms during this period. Sure, we always get a bit of a dropoff for the WSOP but will be amplified by fans who may be out at their local pubs supporting their favorite teams?
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
