What is a Professional Poker Player?

I’ve been doing a lot of light reading lately and nearly every poker magazine article is written by “a professional poker player.”  Likewise, watching many of the televised poker events the commentators will often identify a player as a “professional poker player.” But just what the heck is a professional poker player? Is it someone …

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Bomb Threat at Hawaiian Gardens

I guess this is a follow up to my previous post on bad behaviour in California card rooms. So Sunday I was out and about running errands trying to get ready to fly out of here on hey  to sneak in a little poker since I was near Hawaiian Gardens and I didn’t feel like …

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The Changing Business Model in Poker Media

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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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