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Changes Afoot At Bill’s Poker Blog

October 12, 2011 General Ramblings

If you’ve stopped by Bill’s Poker Blog over the last couple of days you’ll notice that I’ve updated the design a bit. It’s still a work in progress that will probably last awhile but I’m rolling it out in little stages rather than save everything up for a huge re-launch sort of thing. One of [...]

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Installing GeoIP And Geo Target Your Affiliate Ads

April 18, 2011 General Ramblings

I just wanted to do a quick one for affiliates out there that might be looking at how to geo target their affiliate ads now that US players can’t play on many of the sites they promote. I’ve been using similar code on my Thailand Friends website to keep people from certain countries from registering [...]

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WordPress Contributor Role Vulnerability

March 21, 2011 Tech Ramblings

Since a lot of poker blogs out there are powered by WordPress I thought I would help get the word out about a vulnerability that exists if you allow users to register on your site. On another (not poker related) blog I run I’ve been getting occasional posts in Polish. Which is odd because when [...]

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Another Link Exchange Winner

February 1, 2011 General Ramblings

You would think that in a competitive market space that people would actually get better at what they do. Instead they just stay the same level of FAIL. Here’s an email I got earlier today. Hello there, Team/Owner of billrini.com! My name is Stanley and I deal with promotion for my casino-related website. I am [...]

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Strange Spam

June 23, 2010 General Ramblings

I don’t know why but I’ve been getting a lot of spam both via email and in the comments that are odd in that they seem to have no purpose. Here’s one I received today. Oil hovers below $78 after US crude supplies jump Predicting an end to Roe v. Wade On the contrary, the [...]

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iPhone Goodness on Bill’s Poker Blog

June 22, 2010 General Ramblings

I just installed a WordPress plugin called WPtouch will should make viewing Bill’s Poker Blog on your iPhone a much better experience. If that previous sentence made no sense to you . . . allow me to explain. Bill’s Poker Blog uses WordPress to manage the website. This new plugin, WPtouch reformats Bill’s Poker Blog [...]

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Online Poker and Data Mining

December 24, 2009 Is Online Poker Rigged?

Paul Nobles from Bluff takes a rather interesting look at the whole data mining brouhaha that’s been going on of late. I started to leave a comment on the Pokerati site but my response started to get a little unruly in terms of length so I thought I would just direct you there to read [...]

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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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Rake Races on Cake and Full Tilt Poker

April 17, 2009 General Ramblings

If you have some time on your hands next week you might want to check out these rake races on Cake Poker and Full Tilt: FullTilt Rake Race: Apr 21 – 30, $7000 Prize Pool 50 Places Paid! Cake Poker $21,000 in cash prizes: Apr 21 – 30, $6000 Prize Pool 50 Placed Paid! Only [...]

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