The big news from our ‘Latest News’ section is that Bodog is shutting down its UK operation, and consequently their European market is going to be close to poker! They are then going to re-open and cater to the Asian expat market, whatever that means. This is a big news story in the sense that […]
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Online Poker And The POTUS 2012 Election
It looks like that any meaningful legislation, legalising online poker in the US is going to have to wait until the elections on November 6th are over. The bi-partisan committee led by the softly spoken, but, deadly Harry Reid is having trouble getting the Republicans to support a joint effort to move ahead with legal […]
The Graphic History Of Online Poker and Gambling
A guy called Steve Cole thought you might be interested in his interpretation of a history lesson in the form of a graphic. Enjoy! Click picture to see full size
Ban Bots From Rake Races
Rake races seem like a good thing but I am getting more suspicious of them as a fair enterprise for the ordinary online poker player. Clearly those who use bots will have a big advantage, so what will be the point of a non bot using player have in going for these promotion? Therefore, if […]
Poker Is A Game Of Skill – Official!
Well nearly official, according to a triumvirate of scholars from that great institution of Erasmus University in Holland and a judge from New York. Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon, Martijn J. Van den Assem Dennie Van Dolder from Erasmus University Rotterdam – Erasmus School of Economics, have done a rather exhaustive study on the game […]
Some Bots Are Shameless
Some bot users are shameless I should say as they are the masters to run these things. Quite literally the other day I was in a online poker game and this bot took exactly 4.5 seconds to make a decision. Even a decision that should have been instantaneous. it was so determined to follw the […]
An Olympic Style Tournament For Poker Bots
With the disappointment of not getting a Olympic style freeroll going, one’s thought turns to the idea of why online poker freerolls are such a bad idea. The main one is that players tend to be silly and go all in on rubbish hands and create bad vibes, arguments and rage. Although they are free […]
Olympic Fever Legacy
First of all you cannot win them all and The Magical Tipster went for it big time and got stuffed! He made the call that Usain Bolt would be beaten in the showcase race, the 100 meters. When Usain Bolt crossed the line many people broke into cheers and laughter after the ‘wizard of betting […]
Online Poker Olympic Stylee
The Swagman And The Olympic Online Poker Yo, Yo, Yo my bro as the man said we need to sort out a free online poker tournament to celebrate being a couch potato during these brilliant and fabulous London Olympic Games 2012. Watching super fit humans running, jumping and doing all sorts of stuff that require […]
Do Suck Outs Come In Cycles?
Those of you who are familiar with my obsession to get the best out of starting hands will probably have come across my formula to deal with having pocket jacks which finally ended up with me creating an equation (for those who have never come across this here it is P =( 1/3S – C)/R, where P […]