I’m a big fan of both HDouble’s The Cards Speak posts as well as Chris Halverson’s blog. Good to see Hank was able to show Chris a good time while Chris was out visiting Los Angeles. A few of Hank’s comments made me want to comment: I left up $90 after only 15 minutes. Since …
I recently wrote about trying to bypass bans on gambling imposed by foreign governments. Well, I’ve been totally foiled. I thought I might be able to get around the government IP bans by doing some SSH port forwarding but I can’t even SSH into the box from the ISP that I’ve been attempting this from. …
A fellow poker fiend and former co-worker of mine, Mark, sent me this link about the World Trade Organization ruling that the US’ online-gambling ban violates international trade laws. Of course, the US plans to appeal the ruling because they have to protect the state lotteries and the political contributions from the Indian casinos but …
I had to go to LAX today to pick up a ticket and I may have almost given one of the security guys a heart attack. First off, I haven’t flown recently but I have flown several times over the last couple of years and I don’t remember security being this tight. There’s the checkpoint …