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The Fallout From The Full Tilt / PokerStars Pullout

April 16, 2011 Is Online Poker Legal?

I said I was going to cover what this all means on a few topics when I got home and as I start to write this it’s 6:07am and I’ve just spent a sleepless night on the bus from Phetchabun so I’ll probably just do a quick draft and finish up after I get a [...]

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Ron Fanelli – Should We Feel Sorry For Him?

July 27, 2010 Poker

There’s been a story that’s been flying under the radar recently that Dr. Pauly wrote about and while I respect his views I think there is a different angle to this that many people in the poker world are ignoring. Former poker pro, Ron Fanelli (aka MadYank), stabbed and murdered a Thai bar girl, Wanphen [...]

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Is Online Poker Really Doing Well?

September 16, 2009 Online Poker

Nearly every week I read Poker Scout’s industry analysis and they triumph more and more growth. This month was better than last month and year over year the industry is growing at an amazing pace . . . but is it? One of the big disadvantages we have in viewing the overall poker market is [...]

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Why Affiliates Will Always Trump Online Poker Rooms

May 5, 2009 Bonus Whoring

Before I got into the online poker industry I was always amazed at how much money poker rooms threw at affiliates. I thought they were stupid because most of the sites that were promoting them would have been happy to take a flat CPM deal if some site hadn’t been dumb enough to offer to [...]

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The Online Poker Industry’s Love Hate Relationship With Rakeback

April 20, 2009 Bonus Whoring

Exclusive Report Learn how you could make a living playing poker. There’s probably no single topic that divides the online poker industry more than rakeback [what is rakeback?].  Seriously, in many companies rakeback is a dirty word.  At one company I know it’s jokingly referred to as “The Unmentionable” by the poker staff because to [...]

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Five Ways to Improve Your Poker and Crush the Competition

March 23, 2009 Online Poker

A lot of people ask me what the best way to improve their poker game is and for many of them it would be if they quit playing poker.  But there’s another group of people who may be decent poker players but they feel like they’re stagnating.  They don’t feel like they’re improving. This list [...]

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Crazy Rigtards

March 14, 2009 Is Online Poker Rigged?

Because of my Online Poker is Rigged parody post as well as the many posts I’ve done on why online poker is not rigged I get a lot of heat from rigtards.  Rigtard is a name I ran across on 2+2 that is used to describe the constant stream of ZOMG ONLINE POKER IZ SO [...]

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Online Poker Rooms Getting Stupid About Sponsorships

January 25, 2009 Online Poker

I was reading the other day about how PokerStars has banned its players from playing on Poker After Dark. I guess the argument goes that outside of the US Full Tilt Poker is all over this program and even markets it in some countries as a Full Tilt Poker production. Well, good for them. Not [...]

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The Definitive Guide to Online Poker Cheating

April 16, 2008 Is Online Poker Rigged?

With all of the recent scandals involving cheating in online poker I thought I would take a few paragraphs to describe all of the various ways people can cheat at online poker. First off, “cheating” is a pretty broad term as some may consider abusing the disconnect protect feature on a site as cheating while [...]

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