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Weeding Out The Weak

February 2, 2012 Online Poker

You would think that by this stage in the evolution in the online poker industry people like this would be unable to find jobs. Sadly, they’re still out there. And they’re still spamming poker websites with crap like this. Subject: business proposal Message Body: HI PARTNER, DO YOU KNOW XXXXXXX NETWORK? XXXXXX IS ONE OF [...]

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Trying to Unsubscribe From Zynga Email Alerts

February 1, 2012 Online Poker

I’m not sure why I’ve recently started to get a ton of Zynga emails telling me my friends are playing the latest and greatest Zynga game and want to invite me to play too. Regardless of the reason, I was tired of getting spammed so I clicked on the Unsubscribe option at the bottom of [...]

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The Death of Poker Media?

January 31, 2012 Is Online Poker Legal?

I swung by Commerce last weekend to get in a little Omaha and, as is my habit, I picked up copies of CardPlayer and PokerPlayer magazines which are always available in the casino. It’s a habit that goes back for nearly as long as I’ve played live poker in the local Los Angeles poker rooms. [...]

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Guaranteed Solution To Stop Sharks From Eating Sports Book Fish

January 30, 2012 Online Poker

Don’t offer poker!!! Really. It’s that simple. Most sports books offer poker to their customers as a way to keep players from discovering other poker sites. They understand the tendency for there to be cross-over players from sports betting to poker and they’ve attempted to keep their sports book players from wandering off to other [...]

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Looking for a Job in the Online Poker Industry?

January 29, 2012 Online Poker

I just wanted to highlight some of the new jobs listed over at PokerJobSearch that might be of interest to those of you considering working in online poker. Event Coordinator – World Poker Tour PR Director – Asia – Bodog Head of PR – PokerStars Marketing Manager – ClubWPT.com Webmaster / Interactive Web Producer – [...]

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Jonas Odman, VP of Bodog Network and Anonymous Tables

January 23, 2012 Online Poker

I just got done reading Inside Poker Business’ interview with Bodog VP, Jonas Odman and I really thought it was very interesting. Mostly because Bodog reveals their true motives for creating anonymous tables. IPB:To what extent is the industry, and Bodog in particular, now moving too far in favour of ‘handicapping’ the game in favour [...]

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Zynga Ready for Real Money Gaming or Trying to Hide Failures?

January 20, 2012 Is Online Poker Legal?

Last September I wrote about why I didn’t think Zynga would be a major player in real money poker. I cited several reasons and among them was that they weren’t serious about real money gaming. They had not hired a single name out of the online poker industry. I left the door open though and [...]

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Phil Galfond’s, Let’s Make Some Changes

January 20, 2012 Online Poker

Phil Galfond recently wrote an excellent blog post that I both wanted to draw some attention to as well as respond to as Phil invited other people to share their thoughts. In a nutshell, Phil covers several different annoyances and problems with the way online poker sites operate. At the meta-level he seems to be [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-19

January 19, 2012 Online Poker

My Tweets from this week. Today in Poker History: Neteller founders, John Lefebvre and Steve Lawrence, arrested today. Jan 15, 2007 # The (Not So) Great PokerStars Sit-Out of 2012 http://t.co/cGVYiDu1 # Congrats to @Freddy_Deeb. Freddy Deeb Wins World Series of Poker Circuit Bicycle Casino Main Event: http://t.co/ItWqysHS # The Secret Value Of Winning Players [...]

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