Poker
Obivously this blog is about poker and the Poker category is the spot where everything other than my odd General Ramblings or my Travel ends up. Enjoy!
Dive into the Poker archives.
- Man Up, Calvin!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Calvin Ayre recently posted a challenge to Scott Lewis of 1st Technology LLC. Ayre is suggesting that Scott Lewis and he have a $1 million MMA (mixed martial arts) brawl to be filmed and distributed by Ayre’s own production [...]
- Absolute BS
From the “You Don’t Really Expect Me to Buy This BS, Do You?†dept comes Absolute’s explanation of what actually happened. According to MSNBC a source within Absolute who would only be quoted anonymously said:
“This is literally a geek trying to prove to senior management that they were wrong and he took it too [...]
- Absolute Poker and Online Poker
I’ve been watching the Absolute cheating saga unfold over on 2+2 and P5’s and am shaking my head. I was trying to hold off judgement until a clear story came out (in case you want the whole story you can click here for a good summary) but now, according to P5’s, Absolute admits that [...]
- The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!
“. . . Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now. ” — Steve Martin, The Jerk
Well [...]
- UIGEA Rules Due Soon
Word on the street is that the long awaited rules that will provide the “how” part of the UIGEA will be out as soon as tomorrow and within a week at the latest. There will be an expected 60 - 90 day commenting period and then re-examination period which could take up to 180 [...]
- Surprise! Online Gaming Doesn’t Increase Addiction
I’ve long said that the argument that compulsive gamblers will increase due to the availability of online gaming was highly questionable and now it appears the British government has produced the results to bolster my belief. According to a report published last week, 99.4 Britons were able to enjoy gambling responsibly. Only 0.6% [...]
- So What Happened To Bodog?
When Bodog lost its domains and had to convert over to NewBodog.com there was much speculation over how this would impact the company. Well, now we have some answers. To be honest, I was a little surprised.
On Sept 1st, Bodog (or NewBodog . . . depending on how you look at [...]
- Bodog / NewBodog Is Just The Beginning
I may do a more in-depth post at some point in the future but I think the thing many people are missing in all this Bodog/NewBodog mess is that this is an interesting legal tactic that will likely be used again in the future. 1st Technology LLC sued to have Bodog’s domain names rendered [...]
