January 15th, 2008
Any speculation on whether or not there’s some amount of rigging and/or cheating going on in online gambling venues was wholly confirmed by the recent fines applied from the KGC, a Canadian gaming commission, filed against online casino Absolute Poker.
Absolute poker will have to pay $500,000 in fines for security breaches in their software back [...]
By Blake -- 1 comment
January 14th, 2008
Poker marketing is scary.
Those Full Tilt Poker ads are just a hoot.
Poker is poetry, you know?
If I have to see the one where Jennifer Harmon say, “Show me something, buddy. Just a little something?” I am going to light a small puppy on fire.
Oh, poker, you silly thing.
I want to make my own poker [...]
By Blake -- 2 comments
January 13th, 2008
I’d play a lot better if it weren’t my own money all the time. Not that I’m playing with money I can’t afford to lose, but still, I’m not overflowing.
I wonder where all those old school players found their benefactors. How you go about that.
Maybe they had poker blogs and asked nicely?
Some of them still [...]
By Blake -- 5 comments
January 12th, 2008
Dear Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi:
You are the Marky Mark of poker.
When you said you wouldn’t answer if people called you ‘Michael’ anymore, your mother threw up in her bed. She is moaning and hurting and you are hurting her.
Where do you go to tan?
Do you know the Funky Bunch?
Are you ALL-IN?
Please do us all a [...]
By Blake -- 6 comments
January 12th, 2008
As many already know, the World Poker Tour’s new season will be featured only on GSN. That kind of bums me out since I don’t have access to GSN except when I visit my parents, so I probably won’t be able to see it as much.
Going to see a taping of a WPT final table [...]
By Blake -- 3 comments
January 11th, 2008
Yeah, I’m blogging this one.
So, last night at my local home game, a $1/$1 blind NL game played with no rake and an average $60 buy-in, just for fun, I got into a rather strange situation.
The table had cleared down to 5 people. One player had acquired almost all of the chips at the table, [...]
By Blake -- 12 comments
January 10th, 2008
I think the most consistently strange trend I’ve noticed on Full Tilt Poker is how when two hands get all-in heads up, and one is dominating the other (ie: the hands share one similar card, and one dominates the other like AK vs AQ or KQ vs QJ), the dominated hand ALWAYS wins. I’ve been [...]
By Blake -- 9 comments
January 9th, 2008
Congrats to online tournament player Andrew ‘CreationKiller’ Durden, who a month or so ago I mentioned as beginning a sit-n-go and MTT tournament strategy online to begin with $60 and see how high he can take it.
He crossed the $1000 mark a couple days ago and is now at $1325, all from playing low entry [...]
By Blake -- 1 comment
January 8th, 2008
A remotely interesting, if not just apt, article by Chris Ferguson is up on the Full Tilt articles page. It’s about running bad, and how to deal, and etc.
Here’s an excerpt:
If you look at your game and believe that you’re actually playing well but are just getting unlucky, then maybe you are. Aces get cracked [...]
By Blake -- 1 comment
January 8th, 2008
This is a call to GSN or whoever owns the rights to High Stakes Poker: Please, put it out on DVD. It’s by far the best poker show on television and I’m tired of downloading it in huge files off the internet. I’d like to watch it more. I have seen many episodes more than [...]
By Blake -- 2 comments
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