Boycott Online Poker

When I first read Full Shill Poker’s post suggesting a boycott of online poker rooms I thought it was the stupidest thing I read in the last week (sorry, no lifetime achievment award here). Then I started to think about it and it may make sense. In fact it may be brilliant. One of my …

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January Peak Player Numbers

Numbers are via PokerSiteScout The red line indicates the Neteller cutoff. Some interesting observations: * Stars was on a downward slope from the beginning of the year. The Neteller cutoff just steepened the curve. * Full Tilt was hanging pretty steady around that 8000 number until the cutoff. * The bill may be having a …

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Tax Bot Combs The Internet Looking For Cheats

It’s unknown if the US IRS has anything like this but more than a few companies like the idea of combing the interwebs looking to see if you’re reporting your income. Websites around the world are getting a new computerized visitor among the Googlebots and Yahoo web spiders: The taxman. A five-nation tax enforcement cartel …

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My Neteller Experience

My Neteller experience is a little unique because I live outside of the US. When I first got here I tried to use my US Neteller account and they promptly closed my account because they knew I was not in the US. I called them up and got things turned back on but I figured …

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