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So I haven't been around lately. I put a few posts up on the site late in the summer and haven't been writing anything since. I'll be honest, I was completely burned out after the summer. I never played that much online poker ever in my life. I was regularly playing in all the daily tourney's on one site from 5 in the afternoon until 2 or 3 in the morning. That's in addition to ...<< MORE >>

I almost gave up on 60 Minutes ever airing this story about the Absolute Poker cheating scandal. But, I just heard this being discussed during today's NFL game and the story is going to air this Sunday at 7 PM EST on CBS. ...<< MORE >>

In spirit of the Big Edge Poker Freeroll I thought that I would share some of my thoughts on the game of Omaha.  For those of you that don't know, Omaha is a game where each player is dealt 4 hole cards faced down and you have 5 community cards.  To have a winning hand you must play 2 of your cards with 3 of the 5 community cards.  You cannot play the board and you ...<< MORE >>

While I was speaking with some of the support staff at Cake Poker to set up our freeroll, they mentioned a few of the different payout structures that they offer for private tournaments...one of these really stuck out to me.

They call this the "Crazy" Payout structure. This basically randomizes the $ amount that is paid out to each finishing position. This means that the winner doesn't necessarily win the largest amount. The 3rd place finisher can win more than the 2nd place finisher. The 4th place finisher can win more than 3rd place and so on. Below is an example of what the payout structure looks like for one of these tournaments...<< MORE >>

Hey guys, as we all know Rake is the method that online poker rooms use for to earn money. Rather than have you play poker against the House, which would by no means guarantee the House a profit, online poker rooms let players fight it out amongst each other. The House simply takes out a percentage of the pot, no matter what happens. The amount is usually five or 10 percent, never more than three or four dollars...<< MORE >>

I don't usually spend much time at the online casinos. Some of the online poker rooms I play at also offer casino games, but I usually stick to the poker tables. I used to play craps sometimes when American players were still allowed to play on the Ongame Network, but it has been years since that was possible. A few nights ago I decided to take a shot at some of the casino games because I was sure that I was due to get lucky soon.

I'm not even familiar with the rules to most of the casino games. For some reason I thought that I knew how to play Pai Gow Poker, but I have no clue where I came up with that Idea...<< MORE >>

Recently I have noticed a trend among poker rooms around the country. The starting chip stacks STINK!!! Will this ever change? I highly doubt it, so I have developed a new approach. 

The card room where I play generally has 2 multi-table tourneys, and SNGs. The multi-table tournaments are usually $200 buy-ins and $300 buy-ins, both are 4000 or 8000 starting chips respectively. The latter blind levels are 50-100 start and double from there. The ...<< MORE >>

Registration has opened for our freeroll on Cake Poker - November 29th at 7PM EST.  This is a freeroll, so there is no cost to get in. You just need to make sure to enter soon and reserve your spot before the tournament fills up.

You will find our tournament in the private tournament lobby on Cake Poker. Here are the final tournament details...<< MORE >>

I'm gonna seize this opportunity to take another cheap shot at Norman Chad, Lon Mcheron and the folks at ESPN. Congrats guys, you earned the #1 spot on top of my zeroes list for November.

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