The Week That Was

In Europe us Americans are seen as a joke when it comes to soccer. In fact, I can’t even begin to count the number of times someone has said “Football, oh, sorry mate, I mean soccer,” and then burst out into hilarious laughter. I guess on the flip side it goes to show that most …

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The Perfect Storm

I was reading a piece on Bluff’s website* about the “World Series Effect” on online poker sites. Generally, during the WSOP many sites temporarily lose some of their best players who opt for live games. It’s not a huge drop off as the online poker market tends to follow the cycle below (the numbers are …

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Compounding Bad Decisions

Back in April I shared my thoughts on Betsson’s strategy of opening a separate room on Entraction and offering rakeback. Now they have Betsson and Betsson Euro Tables. The Betsson Euro tables are Euro denominated (surprise) and on the Entraction network which apparently is allowing skins to offer rakeback to their players. In my previous …

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Racist Joke

“A Mexican, a Jew and a colored fellow walk into a bar… The bartender looks up and says… Get the f*** out of here.” Some of you might recognize that as one of the many racist comments made by Clint Eastwood’s character in the film Grand Torino. It is also what Victory Poker pro player …

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What the World Series of Poker Means to Me

I want to start off by saying that I am not bitter that I’m not in Las Vegas right now. Okay, a little disappointed that the Rini Inc. private jet doesn’t have enough fuel to get to Sin City but not bitter. That being said, this time of year seems so contrived to me. You …

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