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Online Poker

Tiffany Michelle on Fox . . . Ouch, That Was Painful

January 27, 2010 Online Poker

I started to write a very similar post to this when Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho were on the Amazing Race. During that same week they were running episodes of Celebrity Apprentice and had just watched several episodes of Annie Duke trying to relate even the most routine points into a poker analogy. [...]

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Weekly Wrap Up for Jan 25th 2010

January 26, 2010 Is Online Poker Legal?

This last week has been a little tough. I had a bit of a cold this week. Lots of coughing up disgusting stuff and feeling generally like crap. Things hit the peak on Friday night. My new project, Thailand Friends, had a team in the Asian/European Pool Championships. I went [...]

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Scathing Review of Senator Jon Kyl

January 24, 2010 Is Online Poker Legal?

It’s not often that you see a conservative website rip apart a Republican but Big Government does exactly that. They focus on Kyl’s childish attempt to block Treasury nominees in order to get back at the Obama administration for agreeing to delay the UIGEA. Here are some of the more choice parts of [...]

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SEGA Poker Room Launches

January 23, 2010 Online Poker

Dan over at Pokerati.com posted a news bit about SEGA’s new poker room. Unfortunately, since it’s closed to US and Japanese players you can’t even view the site if you’re coming from one of those countries. Fortunately, being in Thailand I can access the site (yeah Thailand!) so I thought I would post [...]

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The Second Worst Play Ever by Tommy Angelo

January 22, 2010 Online Poker

In 2003, I intentionally folded pocket aces before the flop in a live, $20/40 limit hold’em game. It was, according to my meticulous calculations, the worst play ever. But that wasn’t the only reason I did it. I wrote an article at the time in which all is revealed:
http://tommyangelo.com/articles/the_worst_play_ever.htm
Today I am here [...]

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Did We Learn Nothing From The Dotcom Boom?

January 21, 2010 Online Poker

I just ran across this article on Bluff about Tell Gaming offering stakes in their poker room for loyal players.
Online poker site and casino www.tellgaming.com is giving players the chance to earn a stake in the company by simply playing on the site. Players can earn ‘ownership units’ in the company as they actively participate [...]

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Will the Economic Recovery Boost Online Poker?

January 19, 2010 Online Poker

During the downturn that followed the banking collapse in the US and Europe many CEOs of publically traded companies were quick to cite the global economic crisis as the reason for underperforming. Well, at least they cited it as a reason. They usually included an increasingly competitive market as a co-contributor.
But [...]

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What a Week it Was

January 18, 2010 General Ramblings

Obviously, the big story of late has been the earthquake that hit Haiti. My thoughts and prayers go out to those impacted by the tragedy and to their families and loved ones who are coping with their losses.
As usual, many of the poker sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have come [...]

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Good Catches by Pokerati

January 14, 2010 Online Poker

Just wanted to give a quick linkout to Pokerati for catching a series of articles on playing poker. Well, that in and of itself wouldn’t be much of a story would it? There are stories all over the place about playing poker. I’ve even been known to write one or two. [...]

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