How to Become a Rakback Affiliate

At the meta level there are really two major ways to get into the rakeback game: 1. Develop your own accounting system and go negotiate deals with all the major poker rooms 2. Use a pre-packaged backend solution like Poker Affiliate Solutions (PAS) and set up your own rakeback site. Even though I have a …

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The Week That Was June 21 – 28

It hasn’t been an especially good time to be a celebrity recently. Wacko Jacko and Farrah Fawcett almost back to back and then Billy Mays. Fortunately none of them had to suffer the indignity that David Carradine did though I’m not sure anybody would have been surprised if they had found Jackson tied up. Last …

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Why Sponsored Players Cost You Money

Over the last few years a very disturbing trend has emerged in the online poker world. It’s disturbing because it costs a lot of money and there is no way to measure its success. The trend is player sponsorships; when an online poker site contracts with a player to wear their gear in exchange for …

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iPhone Pic Dump

When I was up in Amsterdam my Nokia N95 suddenly quit working. I bought it awhile back in Bangkok at MBK relatively cheap. At the time I was really wavering back and forth whether to get the N95 or plunk down the cash and get an iPhone. I was happy at the time because most …

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Kicking it Old School

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 way back in the …

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