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Bannergate 2012

by admin on March 31, 2012

Recently a thread went up on 2+2 in regards to what should be made of Chris Ferguson’s WSOP banner this year.  That one question got me thinking about a few things, mainly the question of – Is it right to erase a part of history because of what has become of the present?  Or should [...]

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Remembering Thuy

by admin on September 8, 2011

Where to begin… On September 4th at around 5am Thuy Doan lost her battle with cancer and the poker world lost one of its best people.  Forget about Thuy as a player, we all know she was great at that. The real tragedy is the loss of Thuy as a person.  Sometime ago I wrote [...]

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Girah and online cheating…

August 9, 2011
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Cheating.  What a touchy subject when it comes to online poker.  Given the state of online poker in the US there has been pretty much no point to write about anything related to the subject up until this point.  This post might be all over the place as there are a bunch of different bullet [...]

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Phil Ivey vs. Full Tilt Poker

June 1, 2011
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The shit hit the fan late last night when Phil Ivey, the best poker player in the world, dropped a bomb on the poker industry by announcing that he would be skipping the 2011 World Series of Poker and filing a suit against Tiltware, LLC.  The statement made by Ivey reads as follows; “For many [...]

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“Black Friday”

April 16, 2011
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So it happened yesterday.  Online poker took the hit we all knew was possible but that none of us were prepared for.  The US Attorney’s office out of the Southern District of New York released details of an indictment that all but ripped online poker out of the heart of America.  Famous for taking down [...]

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Poker’s Repeat Champions

April 15, 2011
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So the NAPT stop at the Mohegan Sun just wrapped up and if you recall the results from last year than there’s no need for me to tell you who won.  In a pretty remarkable outcome, both Vanessa Selbst and Jason Mercier repeated as champions for the NAPT main event and the NAPT bounty shootout [...]

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Chad Brown

April 2, 2011
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With so much being made in poker of the negativity going around lately we tend to lose focus on the more important and sometimes positive things.  The Prahlad Friedman-Justin Bonomo/Isaac Haxton issue, the Joe Sebok-Jon Aguiar beef, Victory Poker moving to a hated network, and the constant power struggle by Full Tilt and Poker Stars [...]

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Random Musings

April 1, 2011
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There are a number of newsworthy things that have gone down in poker recently so let’s rundown some of the bigger stories that are making waves amongst the players and media. Onyx Cup Many people have been wondering for a while now if Full Tilt Poker would have an answer for PokerStars’ NAPT.  They have [...]

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Whose game is it?

March 24, 2011
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As I was in the middle of writing this entry I came across a blog post that this one will be very similar to.  It was a very well written and very well said piece by well known blogger F-Train in a post titled, “The You in Community”, which can be found here. A lot [...]

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Sebok vs. Aguiar

March 16, 2011
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For those of you that prefer to read things that are sugar coated and tend to beat around the bush, this post isn’t for you.  I’m going to tell it like it is in this one and I’m going to get bashed for it; and honestly I don’t care.  What I’m going to do is [...]

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