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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-19

by Bill Rini January 19, 2012 Online Poker

My Tweets from this week. Today in Poker History: Neteller founders, John Lefebvre and Steve Lawrence, arrested today. Jan 15, 2007 # The (Not So) Great PokerStars Sit-Out of 2012 http://t.co/cGVYiDu1 # Congrats to @Freddy_Deeb. Freddy Deeb Wins World Series of Poker Circuit Bicycle Casino Main Event: http://t.co/ItWqysHS # The Secret Value Of Winning Players [...]

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“Crushing the Microstakes” by Nathan BlackRain79 Williams

by Bill Rini January 13, 2012 Online Poker

I just got done reading Nathan BlackRain79 Williams’ new eBook, “Crushing the Microstakes” and thought I would do a quick post to let people know about it. Coming in at a whopping 251 pages, Crushing the Microstakes is a fairly impressive eBook. Williams, who claims to be the winningest player at the microstakes, walks beginning [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-13

by Bill Rini January 13, 2012 Poker

Alcohol proved to release endorphins; Scientist tests a “sober up pill” on drunken rats http://t.co/Q0IYvqrW # MGM CEO: “Internet Gaming Is Going To Pass in United States in 2012" http://t.co/RswiKa0s # Powered by Twitter Tools

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No Fight At All

by Bill Rini January 13, 2012 Online Poker

I was reading a post on SpartanFox by Mark Gahagan which was pretty good but it had one big item that I disagree with. Gahagan discusses the war against better players that some sites are waging but I think he’s making a mistake including PokerStars into the bunch. First off, the other two rooms that [...]

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Poker Chip Cuff Links from Cuffitt

by Bill Rini January 11, 2012 Poker

Seeing as how away from the office I normally just wear t-shirts or polo shirts, it might come as a surprise that I do have a decent collection of dress shirts. Most I had custom tailored in Thailand and just a little less than half I had made with French cuffs. So when Noah, from [...]

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Getting a Fair Game in Online Poker

by Bill Rini December 22, 2011 Online Poker

The other day, myself, Kim Lund, and Taylor Caby on Twitter talking about Bodog’s Patrick Selin’s remarks in a recent interview where he referred to winning players as “sharp players.” Slowly the conversation started to devolve a bit and we all decided that it was best handled via a medium other than Twitter so I [...]

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Stax Poker Lounge at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek

by Bill Rini December 20, 2011 Poker

If you’re in the Coconut Creek area you might want to check out the new Stax Poker Lounge opening up on December 27th. The new poker room will have 30 tables of NL and high-stakes action in a newly-constructed area of the Seminole Casino. They’ll be kicking off the grand opening with a “limited capacity” [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2011-12-16

by Bill Rini December 16, 2011 Poker News

Great article by SSS on Bodog: The Bravado of Bovada http://t.co/3HQaHm4Z # Interview with Patrik Selin: http://t.co/I9ZEcWPr What is a "sharp player"? Is he trying to revive a dead term? # RT @pokerfuse: Want a VIP invite to the beta release of @PokerTracker 4? To qualify just @pokerfuse with #PT4 and be a current PT3 [...]

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Reviewing Tri “Slowhabit” Nguyen’s “How I Made My First Million from Poker”

by Bill Rini December 1, 2011 Online Poker

I just got done reading a pre-release copy of Tri “Slowhabit” Nguyen’s “How I Made My First Million from Poker.”  It’s definitely not your typical poker book and if you’ve read some of Nguyen’s previous books on poker strategy this is an entirely new look at the game. In many ways it will remind you [...]

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What is a Professional Poker Player?

by Bill Rini November 22, 2011 Online Poker

I’ve been doing a lot of light reading lately and nearly every poker magazine article is written by “a professional poker player.”  Likewise, watching many of the televised poker events the commentators will often identify a player as a “professional poker player.” But just what the heck is a professional poker player? Is it someone [...]

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Bomb Threat at Hawaiian Gardens

by Bill Rini November 21, 2011 Poker

I guess this is a follow up to my previous post on bad behaviour in California card rooms. So Sunday I was out and about running errands trying to get ready to fly out of here on hey  to sneak in a little poker since I was near Hawaiian Gardens and I didn’t feel like [...]

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The Changing Business Model in Poker Media

by Bill Rini November 16, 2011 Online Poker

Funny enough Hard Boiled Poker covered a topic I was pondering a blog post about.  I’ve written in the past about the poker media and how the fact that they derived a large percentage of their revenue from the very poker sites that they were covering tainted their motivation to dig too deep or ask [...]

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That’s What A Bad Beat Jackpot Looks Like

by Bill Rini November 15, 2011 Poker

It’s been quite a long time since I’ve been at a bad beat jackpot table so I needed this to remind me of what one looks like. Looks like the BBJ was $100K. Not bad.

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Stingrays in Grand Cayman and Skydiving in Cali

by Bill Rini November 14, 2011 General Ramblings

Some more non-poker related videos. Here’s a video shot in Grand Cayman of a stingray feeding dive we did. The funny part is that for all of the danger people think is involved with diving with sharks I actually received my worst animal related bite from a stingray. While trying to feed one of the [...]

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Shark Diving

by Bill Rini November 10, 2011 General Ramblings

Last night I did an interview for the Poker Affiliate Listings radio/podcast show and Jeremy mentioned my list of travels. Well, coincidentally I’ve been going through a bunch of old videos and such and ran across some stuff that I thought I would share for those of you who enjoy some of the non-poker content [...]

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