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June 27, 2009 General Ramblings

Like what you see? How about getting Bill’s Poker Blog delivered to your inbox?Enter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurnerElse, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I was up in Amsterdam my Nokia N95 suddenly quit working. I bought it awhile back in Bangkok at MBK relatively cheap. [...]

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Help Me Help Me

June 26, 2009 Online Poker

Despite the massive amounts of money made by the online poker industry it remains fairly insular in terms of employment. Once you get your foot in the door all sorts of opportunities open up to you but until you get that first shot it can be very difficult to get anyone to even look [...]

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Kicking it Old School

June 21, 2009 General Ramblings

Last night I went out with a bunch of friends to a club called 808 on Royal City Avenue (RCA). The one and only Grandmaster Flash was the featured DJ. For those of you too young to remember Grandmaster Flash he was one of the original pioneers of hip-hop and DJ’ing [...]

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My Friend John James

June 19, 2009 General Ramblings

Several weeks ago an old friend from high school pinged me on Facebook and told me that one of our mutual friends, John James, was in the hospital receiving chemo-therapy.
During junior high, high school and for a while afterward John and I were like brothers. We lived right across the [...]

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Will Leonardo DiCaprio Save Online Poker?

June 16, 2009 Online Poker

According to the Hollywood Reporter Leonardo DiCaprio has been attached to an as of yet unnamed film being put together by Brian Koppelman and David Levien who wrote Rounders. Paramount Studios, Koppelman, Levien, and DiCaprio are all being tight-lipped about exactly what the film is about but have said that the film is set [...]

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8 Unique Ways To Lose Money In Texas Hold’em by Greg Walker

June 15, 2009 Online Poker

We’ve all been thrashed with the ever popular “10 tips for winning something” and “5 tricks for becoming a better something else” at some point or another by now. These articles and guides are all well and good, but at the end of the day it’s a case of seeing the same Poker information in [...]

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Diversify My Ass

June 13, 2009 Is Online Poker Legal?

I read an article the other day on Casino Gambling Web that quoted online gaming legal expert I. Nelson Rose as saying:
I. Nelson Rose, a gambling law expert at Whittier Law School, has told Matt Richtel of The New York Times, that poker players should not give up their efforts to play online. They should [...]

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US Gov Seizes Funds - What Does it Mean?

June 13, 2009 Is Online Poker Legal?

Way back in 2006 when the UIGEA first passed I made some posts detailing how easy it would be for the US government to shut down online gaming in the US. I took a lot of heat for those posts. Sadly, many people decided to attack me personally and even sadder is the [...]

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Content Thief Complains When Content He Was Stealing Is Removed

June 13, 2009 General Ramblings

Not poker related but I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this. Especially the part where he threatens to get get his lawyer involved to force a website to put back content that he was stealing.

From ritubpant’s Flickr steam.

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