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Archive for November, 2006

Poker Jokes And Captions from Bill’s Blog

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

When you’re not playing, check out Bill Rini’s Poker Blog for poker-related jokes and caption contests.
From Nov. 14th: 

My Caption: If this guy check-raises me one more time, I’m going to rifle butt him in the head.

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How To Pick A Table

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Mike of I’m Just Here For The Beer explains how to pick a no-limit hold-em table for fairly experienced players.
“To me, “that guy” is one of those players who are all but begging to give me their money. They’re the people who can somehow manage to play AA, KK, AK to negative numbers and don’t [...]

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What Makes A Poker Game Go Well?

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Mike at I’m Just Here For The Beer explains what makesa live tournament go well or go slowly. He does say he’s “not a math major” a few too many times… yeah, right. What kind of cardcounter who makes decimal mistakes? Anyway, it’s an interesting peep at what goes on behind the scenes.

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Absolute Poker Hand

Monday, November 20th, 2006

 Mike at I’m Just Here For The Beer has a detailed rant about a game at Absolute Poker room. He explains each hand, and goes into the difference between “rigged” and “really really bad luck”.

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Blogger Poker Game

Monday, November 20th, 2006

If you’re a blogger as well as a gambler, you can join the Blogger Poker Tour! It’s here at the Blogosphere to the Aussie Millions/ blogger poker tour from Poker.com!.

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PokerSavvy

Friday, November 17th, 2006

 PokerSavvy.com is offering Free Poker, stategy articles and free credits in various online poker accounts. This is a PSA to my boss, Will, who spends as much time playing internet Hold ‘Em as I do blogging. (How great is our job?)

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Smoking Ban Hurts Casinos Along Canadian, American Border

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Casino owners have been feeling the heat as they have lost millions due to a smoking ban that instated by Canadian province of Ontario back in May 2006. While the casinos have lost roughly 10 percent of their revenue, critics say that all they have to do is have better marketing and come up with [...]

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Sands Casino Closes

Friday, November 10th, 2006

The Sands casino in Atlantic City has been open for 26 years but now the newest owners of the aging building wants to rip it down and build a bigger casino and hotel, although some feel that there is nothing wrong with The Sands as it stands now. The old casino will be closing on [...]

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Slot Machines Draws in Children

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Adults in the UK become addicted every day from gambling but kids are especially susceptible to slot machines. Officials believe that slot machines is the first step to addiction for kids. After that they usually get into the bigger games like blackjack and poker.

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Gambling: Hidden Epidemic

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Alejandro Barajas started gambling as a teenager and that road took him to a man without a family living on the streets. His story is one that is not mentioned often enough in connection with gambling.

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