The Changing Business Model in Poker Media

experiment

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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Oh Behave

grumpy old poker player

“You have to write something on your blog about live players.”  A friend said that to me the other day and while I normally don’t do requests I thought it was a timely subject as many online players transition to live poker. In the course of maybe four sessions I’ve either seen or have had …

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What Online Poker Can Learn From The Dotcoms

The other night I was invited to get-together with some of my comrades from the old dotcom days.  It was good to catch up and see people I haven’t seen since HTML programmers with no formal education in software engineering thought nothing about asking for (and getting) $75K+ starting salary and a BMW signing bonus. …

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Thinking of Relocating to Thailand to Play Poker?

I’ve probably received a dozen emails since Black Friday from people interested in relocating to Thailand to play poker.  I figure it’s easier for me to just write a post for everyone rather than try to answer these emails one-off. First off, I DO NOT recommend moving to Thailand to play online poker.  Online poker …

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