Betting your life savings on roulette

MSNBC is running a story about Londoner, Ashley Revell, who claims to be a professional gambler, placing a $135,300 bet on “Red” resulting in a $270,600 payoff. Just in case you’re thinking that the $135,300 bet might have been chump change to this high roller, it wasn’t. It was everything he owned. He even sold …

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So far, so good

Couldn’t find any juicy games when I logged into Paradise so I played a $5 + $1 SNG. Took first place. My strategiology? I played almost no hands for the first 3 orbits. When I did take down my first hand it was pretty beefy and then I just sat back and only played the …

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Online Gambling DOJ Letters

The other day I wrote about Google and Yahoo pulling ads for online gambling sites. Well, TechDirt has a follow up on that where it seems the DOJ has been sending out some nastygrams to other sites as well. To steal a mantra of the youth today: Skateboarding Online poker is not a crime.

Back At The Tables

Finally was able to get in about 100 hands this evening after about a week and a half break from the virtual (and b&m) tables. Played two tables at Paradise and seemed to hit some big hands early on both tables and the remainder of the session was pretty much just drip, drip, dripping my …

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Quote of the Day 4/5/04

If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more times than you have the worst hand against them. – Bobby Baldwin (Theory of Poker, page …

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