Virginia Heffernan, a tech writer for the New York Times, has an article about online poker appearing in this Sunday\’s The Times Magazine. Heffernan seems to have been hanging around some poker forums and found the self-pity of the \”bad beat\” […]
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Everyone\’s hustlin\’ gigs these days … and beyond status updates to my Facebook page, I\’ve found two welcome homes for some non-Pokerati writing — at Bluff, and most recently What\’s On … where I let the not-so-poker-geeky Vegas tourists know
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Stumbled across a funny site the other day … F*** My Life. It\’s basically a Twitter-inspired collective of Murphy\’s Law-ish incidents, embarrassing screw-ups, and unfortunate arse poundage in areas of love, money, kids, work, etc. … and sure enough, poker
A handful of us know a little secret … and are preparing morning posts revealing the details of and changes to the WSOP schedule for 2009. There\’s plenty of exciting stuff to discuss, but for the most part, I think
First, my apologies to any loyal Pokeratizens who may or may not be run out of business in a fully legal poker environ. You know I respect (most of) your game(s) … the Morning News called asking for my informed
A look at the non-poker media\’s take on the Kentucky case as it moves through The System: From the subscription newsletter blog Daily Online Examiner … By Wendy Davis, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Kentucky\’s Move To Kill Online Gambling Squashed
Here\’s a good post from a non-poker blog, written by a dude named Tony H, which is sorta like Tony G but different: Everything I Know about Business I Learned from Poker It\’s a pretty comprehensive analogy … though he
As we\’ve talked about before … success for poker in Congress will require more than just being on the right side of the law … it means convincing senators and representatives that we even belong on their radar … and
Squeaky Capitol Wheels PPA launches ad campaign to target Congress for 2009
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Our last poll was kinda complex — seeking speculation on what the recent national media exposure would mean for poker. We gave you six options (nobody added any others), three of which were \”positive\” and three \”negative\”. The \”bad for
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Nice statement from the Poker Players Alliance just came across the transom. We\’ll see if it leads to more coverage of our issue in the non-poker political press. Regardless, I think historically November \’08 will be seen as a period
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