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I was reading a post on SpartanFox by Mark Gahagan which was pretty good but it had one big item that I disagree with. Gahagan discusses the war against better players that some sites are waging but I think he’s making a mistake including PokerStars into the bunch. First off, the other two rooms that [...]
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Seeing as how away from the office I normally just wear t-shirts or polo shirts, it might come as a surprise that I do have a decent collection of dress shirts. Most I had custom tailored in Thailand and just a little less than half I had made with French cuffs. So when Noah, from [...]
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The other day, myself, Kim Lund, and Taylor Caby on Twitter talking about Bodog’s Patrick Selin’s remarks in a recent interview where he referred to winning players as “sharp players.” Slowly the conversation started to devolve a bit and we all decided that it was best handled via a medium other than Twitter so I [...]
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If you’re in the Coconut Creek area you might want to check out the new Stax Poker Lounge opening up on December 27th. The new poker room will have 30 tables of NL and high-stakes action in a newly-constructed area of the Seminole Casino. They’ll be kicking off the grand opening with a “limited capacity” [...]
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I just got done reading a pre-release copy of Tri “Slowhabit” Nguyen’s “How I Made My First Million from Poker.” It’s definitely not your typical poker book and if you’ve read some of Nguyen’s previous books on poker strategy this is an entirely new look at the game. In many ways it will remind you [...]
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I’ve been doing a lot of light reading lately and nearly every poker magazine article is written by “a professional poker player.” Likewise, watching many of the televised poker events the commentators will often identify a player as a “professional poker player.” But just what the heck is a professional poker player? Is it someone [...]
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I guess this is a follow up to my previous post on bad behaviour in California card rooms. So Sunday I was out and about running errands trying to get ready to fly out of here on hey to sneak in a little poker since I was near Hawaiian Gardens and I didn’t feel like [...]
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Funny enough Hard Boiled Poker covered a topic I was pondering a blog post about. I’ve written in the past about the poker media and how the fact that they derived a large percentage of their revenue from the very poker sites that they were covering tainted their motivation to dig too deep or ask [...]
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It’s been quite a long time since I’ve been at a bad beat jackpot table so I needed this to remind me of what one looks like. Looks like the BBJ was $100K. Not bad.
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“You have to write something on your blog about live players.” A friend said that to me the other day and while I normally don’t do requests I thought it was a timely subject as many online players transition to live poker. In the course of maybe four sessions I’ve either seen or have had [...]
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I’m such a big fan of Ed Miller’s new book, “How to Read Hands at No Limit Hold’Em” I want to give you a copy for free (a $49.99 value). Here’s the deal: 1. Go read my review of Miller’s new book. 2. If you aren’t already following me on Twitter (shame on you) go [...]
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The other night I was invited to get-together with some of my comrades from the old dotcom days. It was good to catch up and see people I haven’t seen since HTML programmers with no formal education in software engineering thought nothing about asking for (and getting) $75K+ starting salary and a BMW signing bonus. [...]
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I had the great pleasure of reviewing a pre-release version of Ed Miller’s new book, How to Read Hands at No Limit Hold’Em. I call it a great pleasure because I’ve been a big fan of Ed’s writings over the years. I religiously read his 2+2 postings and was one of the first in line [...]
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I’ve probably received a dozen emails since Black Friday from people interested in relocating to Thailand to play poker. I figure it’s easier for me to just write a post for everyone rather than try to answer these emails one-off. First off, I DO NOT recommend moving to Thailand to play online poker. Online poker [...]
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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.
