WTO Poker

A fellow poker fiend and former co-worker of mine, Mark, sent me this link about the World Trade Organization ruling that the US’ online-gambling ban violates international trade laws. Of course, the US plans to appeal the ruling because they have to protect the state lotteries and the political contributions from the Indian casinos but …

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Sir, What’s That In Your Trunk?

I had to go to LAX today to pick up a ticket and I may have almost given one of the security guys a heart attack. First off, I haven’t flown recently but I have flown several times over the last couple of years and I don’t remember security being this tight. There’s the checkpoint …

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Monsters

Wow, what a night. I set out to play just 100 hands because I had some other things I had to do and I walked away 100 hands later up 40BB. Believe me, it wasn’t all me. The poker gods were smiling on me tonight. I was playing two tables and almost simultaneously on both …

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Playing Poker From Behind the Curtain?

Yes, I’m starting to believe my drought has really ended. Last night I tried playing two .50/$1 tables but Paradise couldn’t seem to keep a second table full and the number of players kept fluctuating from four to six. Luckily I had jumped on one that stayed pretty solid at ten players so I kept …

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Chat Like A Pro

I caught one of Grubby’s posts and the following jumped out at me: I’m usually quiet in chat, not even saying “nh” but throwing in a “ty” if someone says it to me. I think there’s a danger in talking about how bad you’re running, as it affects your image. People will begin taking shots …

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