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Joe Sebok Gets Canned

May 10, 2011 Is Online Poker Legal?

First off, I want to say that as far as I know I’ve only met Joe Sebok once a few years back at the WPBT event at Imperial Palace. He came with Barry Greenstein who was speaking before the tournament and we said “Hi, nice to meet you” or some other rather impersonal exchange. I [...]

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Thinking About VPN’ing Poker? Think Again

April 23, 2011 Is Online Poker Legal?

My friend Michael who lives in Japan asked me to write this post because he keeps getting asked about this topic and he’s getting tired of answering the same question over and over. Michael is an American who relocated overseas pre-UIGEA for school and work and much like myself he knows all too well how [...]

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If Online Poker Players Were a Bunch of Chicks

April 1, 2011 Online Poker

I think I’ve mentioned that one of my Thai friends here in Bangkok, May, is a poker player. It sort of surprised me when she told me and at the time she had no idea that I was involved in the industry. She’s always busy and I’m always busy so we don’t spent anywhere near [...]

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The BLUFF Power 20

February 24, 2011 Online Poker

Bluff Magazine has recently released their Power 20 of 2011. Like my amigo, F-Train, I and 100 other voters were asked to submit votes for who we thought were, as of this moment, the most influential people in poker. I’m going down the list right now and it looks like 18 out of my 20 [...]

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Getting (A)Buzzed

February 14, 2011 Online Poker

In the comments on my post The Online Poker Arms Race Revisited Kim Lund referenced a post he wrote about Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth leaving UB titled, Annie Duke leaving UB. So?. In that post he makes an excellent, excellent point that I want to expand on. Kim writes: There’s no doubt that poker [...]

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The Online Poker Arms Race Revisited

February 10, 2011 Online Poker

I wanted to revisit a post I wrote not too long ago called The Online Poker Arms Race. Since that post Greg Raymer and PokerStars have announced that the two have decided to part ways. I’m not going to repeat all of the stuff people have said about Raymer being a great ambassador for the [...]

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The Online Poker Arms Race

January 23, 2011 Online Poker

Before I get started I wanted to take a second and thank Michael Jones over at Part Time Poker for bringing together three seemingly unrelated topics which I had been stewing on for awhile. Him mentioning all three in the same article sort of forced me to sit down and put digital pen to digital [...]

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Why Do I Do This to Myself?

January 4, 2011 Online Poker

You know when you have a mosquito bite and you know you’re not supposed to scratch it but you do it anyway? Or when you know you’re not supposed to take those hot irons from the fire and seer your eyeballs out and you do it anyway? Yeah, for me reading Gambling911 is a lot [...]

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Tommy Angelo, Gratefulness, Buddhism, and Becoming a Better Poker Player

December 28, 2010 Online Poker

Guest poster on Bill’s Poker Blog, Tommy Angelo, read my post Holidays Overseas and sent me a link to something he had recently written that he thought was relevant. In his blog post, In Gratitude of Gratefulness, Tommy discusses how the attitudes of gratitude and gratefulness can play a role not just in your poker [...]

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