The Shark Tank

I’m not a lawyer, but I’m married to one and surrounded by a number of them, so I’ve picked up some of thier ways.  I’ve taken the time to download the case documents in their case and look them over and have prepared a little summary of the status of the case thus far.
1.  Leyser [...]

I got a nice message from one of my poker buds asking me to elaborate on how I “bully” the table as a big stack. He mentioned that he often loses a lot of money using this approach, which suggests that he does it wrong. I thought it might have enough general interest [...]

My wife has been playing more tourneys and I’ve been railbirding her and giving bad advice.  She sat down at $20 180 person SnG last night, so I decided to play it with her.  4 hours later I won the whole thing for $1,000.  It was fun.
I knew it was likely to go well when [...]

It looks like I’ve lost Crypto and Party, but Stars is hanging tough.

PokerStars.com - Our business continues as before

Dear PokerStars Player -
As you are probably aware, the United States Congress recently enacted the Safe Port Act which contains provisions relating to Internet gambling.
PokerStars has received extensive expert advice from within and outside the U.S. which [...]

I have been relatively uninspired by poker of late, so I haven’t joined in the chorus of swirling resentment at this new effort to “protect” me from the twin evils of gambling and the internet.  Although, to be honest, I think a more important factor for me is that I have been disgusted by the [...]

I wrote a long post ranting about the recent action in the US Congress to try to stop online gambling.  It included lots of links to the full text of the bill, press releases from various poker sites that are bailing out of the US market and commentary from my internet friends.  In what was [...]