The Shark Tank

It appears that the court dismissed the case in its entirety.  There are still a few last ditch attempts to salvage something, but it would appear that Gowan’s claims are toast.  Complete toast.  Everyone but Tiltware, Bitar and Lederer were dismissed with prejudice (meaning that Gowan can not refile against the individual poker players). There [...]

Gowan has filed a reply brief to the Tilt response to her motion for expedited discovery and it is a bombshell.  It appears to utterly destroy the Tilt response and demonstrates that Tilt’s attorneys appear to be doing some very shoddy work.  First, it attacks the challenge to the ex parte basis for the motion.  [...]

I’ve been slacking on the updates.  You will recall that Full Tilt moved to dismiss the charges on January 6th.   On January 22, Gowan amended her complaint, adding new charges and defendants.  I don’t think it will really have done a lot to address the specifics of the motion to dismiss, but we won’t know [...]

I was getting bored with the FPP sats, so I played an hour or so of 5/10.  The game was pretty good and I took $200 or so off the table.  I felt pretty much in control of my game and was playing good.  Later last night, I noticed that one of the fishier players [...]

As the deadline arrived for filing an answer to the complaint filed by Clonie Gowan, Tiltware has instead chosen to try to enlist the court’s support in whittling down some of the charges.  The pleading is not especially interesting to a non-legal audience, since it asserts few facts related to the poker world that we [...]

So, I’m playing yet another mindless 210 sat where no one has the slightest clue how to play the bubble.  We’re on the bubble and I’m a mortal lock to win a seat.  I have the third most chips left of the remaining 7 players and 6 places get paid.  This particular event has been [...]

I had high hopes for the Guiness World Record event.  After all, I had probably won 20 seats to the damn thing.  Unfortunately, I busted in 8,860th place where 8,750 got paid.  I was short and shoved KQs which got looked up by A9.  I didn’t hit any of the cards I needed and I [...]

The Guiness event seems to have made the FFP sats even softer than usual or I’ve just been lucky.  I have cashed in 2 of the set of 4 sats at least three or four times and I’ve even cashed in 3 of the 4 once.  In addition, Stars gave me some free money because [...]

I’ve now seen at least 100 2 outers and 3 outers in these things. You see silly all-ins in the early stages when people seem to think gambling it up is the most fun way to proceed and then you see them later once the blinds get crazy. As a result, I’ve seen more bad [...]

I played two cash tourneys with some of my accumulated T$ last night. I played a $4 limit tourney and a $5 NL tourney. The limit tourney was slightly softer than the WSOP limit event! I got bad beat like three times and busted out of the limit event early. The NL event had 909 [...]