Can Bots Be The Path To Legalized Online Poker?

Many major news outlets missed this as I’m sure they’re busy reporting on the WSOP at the moment but the University of Alberta AI program Polaris beat a group of live poker players for the first time. The team of pros put together to match Polaris were Nick “stoxtrader” Grudzien, Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko, and IJay …

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Send In Your Player Notes

One of the guys I work with started reading off some of the notes he had taken on other players and he had all of us rolling.  I asked him to send over some of his less offensive player notes and I’ve included them below. Stalk this player… he is the worst player… loads of …

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Online Poker Industry Report July 7, 2008

A surprising bounce back this week with the market being up over 15% this week. I say surprising because the Wimbledon Finals were on Sunday and the Federer / Nadal match was absolutely fantastic. The game both of these guys brought with them to the court was one of the most inspiring moments I’ve seen …

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Are Poker Blogs Futile?

Someone recently posted a comment on a post I did back in 2005 regarding the futility of being an online poker affiliate. My main point of the post is that poker blogs don’t really convert well because by the time someone finds your blog they usually have an online poker account already. The comment asked …

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Who Ate My Page Rank?

My site usually ranks pretty highly with Google.  I normally enjoy a PR5 though sometimes I slip down to PR4.  Well imagine my surprise when I noticed that I had slipped down to PR3.  I haven’t really made any major changes so I was a bit baffled.  Doing some sleuthing I was able to discover …

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