I Don’t Get the PPA

Here is the email that the PPA sent out to members late yesterday. I sort of mulled it over a bit to give it time to sink in but I still don’t get it. Now Is the Time We Fight Back! Dear William, April 15, 2011 will forever be a dark day for the online …

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And The Numbers Are In – A Look at the Carnage

Poker Scout has done their weekly report and there are no real surprises. I like the fact that Scout decided to compare the post Friday period so we can get an early look at how the market shakeup is hitting everyone. Overall, the market shrank 23% last week. That’s pretty huge. The numbers since Friday …

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Why Bodog Wasn’t Kicked Out of the US

I was listening to the QuadJacks stream earlier today and they kept bringing up this question and I have received a few emails asking the same thing. I don’t have any contacts at the DOJ but as far as I can tell it has to do with the fact that the indictment and banning from …

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The Vultures Are Circling

I just got this email from Chili Poker today: MALTA, 17/04/2011 – Beat the Black Friday with the Chilipoker.com Purple Day In response to the Black Friday of the online poker, Chilipoker.com decided to announce its ‘Purple Day’. More than ever, Chilipoker is a European safe and secure poker environment as the company never took …

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Happy Songkran

If people had been wondering where I was all last week, I was up in Phetchabun for the Songkran festival. Songkran is a religious holiday but over the years it has sort of developed into a three-day nationwide water fight. I prefer the Phetchabun type of Songkran because it’s civilized. In Bangkok, Pattaya, or any …

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