Weekend Recap – and Why I will never be Really Good at Poker
November 26, 2007
I hope everyone got their fair share of grub this weekend. I know I did! Saturday we went out looking for a Christmas tree. We were hoping to stop by a tree farm and cut one down ourselves, mostly because the kids would enjoy it, but it didn’t work out. Oh well, they still had fun picking out a tree from the greenhouse. The complimentary frosted cookies didn’t hurt either. Yesterday we
Ship the Turkey!
November 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
PokerNews Continues Absolute Poker Scandal Coverage
November 18, 2007
I’ve been critical of the so-called poker news outlets for their failure to cover the Absolute Poker cheating scandal. Pokernews, Cardplayer, 2+2, PocketFives, etc. were blinding by the advertising dollar and failed to cover the most important online poker story in history until the evidence completely forced their hand. We play a game governed by statistics and probability and the evidence
Chop it Up Nine Ways?
November 16, 2007
During the Vegas trip I played poker just once. It was the Saturday 7PM $105 NLHE at the Orleans. The $105 included $5 for dealers and $10 rake. There was also a $5 bounty on everyone. You started with 5,000 chips, 25 / 50 blinds, 20 minutes levels. After the 1st hour the levels increased to 30 minutes. The 30 minutes levels made for a decent hour 2 and 3 and not a complete shove fest. The
Back From Vegas
November 6, 2007
Mrs. Royal and I got back into town early Monday morning following an excellent weekend in Vegas. Since this trip was just us two the gambling / debauchery was a little less than normal, which was just fine. I only had one opportunity to play poker and made the most of it.
Here are a few of the highlights from out trip.
Visiting the Pinball Hall of Fame was pretty sweet. It’s a little out of
Vegas Time!
October 30, 2007
T-minus 2 days until the Mrs. and I head back to the promised land. Most of the extra Absolute Poker related traffic has died down so it will (hopefully) be back to normal posts for awhile.
Another Absolute Poker Response: Nothing New
October 24, 2007
Absolute Poker (AP) today issued the following statement concerning the recent security breach in its system: “Recently, AP was the victim of a breach of security in which a high-ranking consultant to the site devised a sophisticated scheme to manipulate internal systems and access third-party computers and accounts to view the hole cards of other customers during play