I don’t have a wide range of international contacts in the poker world, but I started playing just before the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) came into effect and most sites pulled out of the US market, dropping Party Poker in size and giving PokerStars and Full Tilt the opportunity to move to the [...]
The other day I was reading an article in the New Yorker about the kid who started Chatroulette. He’s quite young, and apparently part of the source for the idea for Chatroulette came from a job he had working in his uncle’s store selling to tourists. He didn’t sell much, but he liked practicing his [...]
A very recent thread on 2+2 is started by a player who claims to just live in the same city as a number of other players from China. Many, if not all, of these players seem to have had their accounts frozen. Some players who played against them seem to have received refunds from the [...]
Great Plains (aka Microsoft Dynamics GP) just drives me up the wall sometimes. Some software is just annoying. Fortunately if we don’t like a piece of software we can often avoid it. If you don’t like Internet Explorer, use Mozilla (I do). If you don’t like Windows in general, use a Mac or Linux. But [...]
According to reports around the poker world, the International Mind Sports Association has accepted poker along with its existing games; chess, bridge, draughts, and go. A big step in being recognized as a game of skill rather than a game of chance? Interesting thing about these reports; they come only from poker websites at this [...]
Occasionally in my blogs I refer to trying to get into a “groove” with my play. What I define as a groove is something that is a longer term / less intense version of being “in the zone”. In the zone In the first game of the 1991 finals against the Portland Trail Blazers, Michael [...]
Named for Monty Hall, host of “Let’s Make a Deal” game show, the situation is: You have a choice between the prize behind one of 3 doors, “Door number one, door number two, or door number three”, in his words. Behind one of these doors is a shiny new car. Behind the other two are [...]
A shout-out, and a warning note. I’ve opted to change the permalink structure of the blog, meaning that previously posts were in folders broken separated by year and month. Now they’re separated by category. But in doing so, all the previous file locations will have disappeared. To deal with that issue I’ve installed a WordPress [...]