Online Poker
Black Friday Link Dump
For anyone who finds themselves in this space wishing they had more info regarding Black Friday™, aka Pokerpocalypse™, aka The World is Ending™, aka So Is It Safe to Play on Bodog?™, here are some links:
Game Over, an article written by myself and fellow operator of PokerTips.org briefly summarizing what happened and speculating on what [...]
Online Poker is Over in the U.S.
In an absolutely gigantic piece of news for the online poker world, the U.S. Department of Justice has gone after PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Absolute Poker on counts of bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses. This is all just happening right now so the dust is still far from settling, but fulltiltpoker.com and [...]
Twitter, Double Deuce, ATX Food Swap
I haven’t really posted much of an update in a while. I have Twitteritis™: plenty of things to say a few words about, but nothing to say several hundred words about. So rather than try to write more than what I feel like saying about a single topic in order to eek out a legitimate-ish [...]
A Million Man Poker Tournament
Online poker seems to have experienced some huge growth recently with regards to the size of tournament fields. Just this month we’ve seen:
A $215 on PokerStars attract 59,000 players.
A $75 on Full Tilt attract 45,000 players.
Those are staggeringly large fields for tournaments with a not-insignificant buy-in amount. It’s a snowball effect: the more people who [...]
