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!
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- When Bad Things Happen to Bad People
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Looks like Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has been charged with seven counts of perjury to a grand jury. This is the jackhole that has become infamous for describing the Internet as a series of tubes.
Senator Steven’s description has also [...]
- Tokwiro Releases UB Cheating Scandal Statement
It looks as if Tokwiro, parent company of UB and Absolute, has issued a statement regarding their investigation into the cheating happening over at UB. I’ve included the statement below.
TOKWIRO CONCLUDES ITS INVESTIGATION INTO UNFAIR PLAY ON ULTIMATEBET SITE
Findings Turned Over to KGC
Refunds to Affected Players Continue
Company Will Pursue All Legal Remedies
MONTREAL, CANADA - [...]
- Online Poker Is Not A Crime
Hat tip to Nat for this one.
- Kanhawake Gaming Commission Reads Bill’s Poker Blog
Either that or I have good timing.
No sooner had I fired off my post expressing disappointment regarding KGC, UB, and Absolute’s failure to offer something of substance in regards to the cheating scandals KGC issued the following press release.KAHNAWA:KE GAMING COMMISSION APPOINTS INDEPENDENT MONITORING-INVESTIGATION TEAM
Effective immediately, the Kahnawa:ke Gaming Commission (KGC) has [...]
- Be Careful What You Wish For
I was playing devil’s advocate the other day and I was wondering what if we were close to getting legalized and regulated online gaming in the US. If I was anti-gaming and realized that I can’t fight the trend anymore, how might I throw in a curveball to muck things up?
Then it occurred to [...]
- KGC Needs to do the Right Thing
The PPA has recently come out with a statement which indicates their dissatisfaction with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission’s (KGC) handling of the Absolute and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals. In a nutshell the PPA thinks the investigations need more transparency.
The KGC has been in CYA mode and issued the following press release.
Kahnawá:ke Gaming [...]
- Online Poker Industry Report July 23, 2008
Sorry for the late post this week. My hard drive fried and I lost an entire day getting that replaced.
The online poker industry had a slow but positive week.
Everest must be doing something screwy (I’ll have to do more investigation on that) as their numbers have been whipsawing all over the place. They’ve been [...]
- Becoming a Winning Poker Player
Yesterday I talked about the importance of not spewing chips and today I wanted to explore the opposite side of that equation in terms of how to make your opponents put more chips into the pot when they’re behind.
It’s the hallmark of winning players at the higher levels that they know how to [...]
- Online Poker Industry Report July 15, 2008
After a nice little bounce last week the overall market market slid 4.11% WOW. I can’t say I was too surprised with that as I thought last week’s numbers were a little high. Not much in the way of sporting events to take the European customers offline but beautiful weather throughout Europe probably didn’t help [...]
- More About Why PokerNews is Mad
This comes from the Poker Network site where rmh123 has the following to say:
The facts!
I have just spoken to Tony G who is currently in Russia and not happy! Tony told me that he paid entries for 35 people into the main event, with the aim of helping some people, but also to gain maimum [...]
