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The online poker mess

Posted by Chuck on April 21st, 2011

I’m sure many people saw the headlines late last week. The U.S. Department of Justice charged close to a dozen representatives of Full Tile Poker and Poker Stars with bank fraud, money laundering, and other related crimes. The two sites’ domains were seized by the feds (since released) and they stopped allowing U.S.-based players to [...]

What makes a good dealer?

Posted by Chuck on October 4th, 2007

I know how many players, especially in the low-limit games, will answer this question: A good dealer is one who deals me a lot of winning hands. This is, of course, completely wrong. So, then, what does make a good dealer? I have some ideas. But before I begin, I should note that a dealer [...]

The $1000 table bully

Posted by Chuck on March 15th, 2006

So I sit down for a little $.50/$1.00 play on PartyPoker, where I’ve been playing more of my online games. I’m doing OK so far, starting with my usual buy in at than level, $25, or 50 times the big blind. I’m playing 2 tables at once, started slow, but have gotten back to about [...]

The $300 Headphones

Posted by Chuck on February 14th, 2006

I’ve been watching the FullTiltPoker.net Learn From the Pros series on FSN. A recent program dealt with the, uh, accouterments that players bring to the table, and the participants in the roundtable discussion segment were almost entirely against music and headphones. Now I have an iPod Nano that I carry pretty much everywhere. I’ve tried [...]