The ramblings of an often frustrated online player.
If you are considering a trip to Vegas, and would like to play in a few of the local tournaments, then you should definitely visit PokerTournamentFormula.com first. Specifically the Las Vegas Tournament page. Arnold Snyder has developed a formula to evaluate the skill involved in virtually all of the Las Vegas tournaments, and keeps it up to [...]
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In February, Absolute Poker’s acquisition of Vegas Poker 24/7 was announced. Vegas Poker has been a successful skin of Absolute for some time now. Both sites share the same player base, and with the exception of the color scheme the software is identical. The word is sometime in the near future the Vegas Poker software [...]
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For players, the question of whether to take rakeback is an easy one. Of course! If you have the opportunity to get a discount, you should take it. You’ll find links to Rakeback.org on this site, and I encourage you to check out their offers. For the serious player, this can amount to hundreds, if not [...]
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Holdem Dogs has been retooled. All of the cheesy articles about “strategy” are gone and they’ve been replaced by my blog. For awhile I allowed others to post articles, but most of these were just lame excuses to link back to their own site. As a result, Holdem Dogs started to look less like my site and more like [...]
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are the principals this country was founded on. However, once again, the Congress and the President alike have failed to preserve these “unalienable rights”, with the passage of a ban on internet gambling. Supporters of the bill have used protecting children and gambling addicts as their justification for [...]
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Is anyone frustrated yet? As payment processors are dropping like flies, we’re quickly running out of choices. I spent the last weekend looking at my options only to get more and more pissed off. This is a truly misguided piece of legislation, but that’s for another rant. What I’m really mad about is…I really wish [...]
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