In the final days of their administration the Republican Party is planning to try and sneak through even tougher restrictions on online gambling in the United States. To all Americans, please unite against this attack on personal freedom and capitalism. Online poker is unfairly under scrutiny because it is a game of skill and the way that these laws have tried to be rushed through before Bush leaves office is a disgrace. Even if poker [...]

One of the most important and least talked about concepts in poker is table and game selection. I take pride in my choice of games to play in, I may not be the greatest poker player going around, but I feel like table selection is a real strength of mine. With practical and rational decision making before you sit in a poker game you can increase your win rate by so much. A break-even player [...]

Yesterday, I had the pleasure and privilege of being able to sweat my good friend WCG|Rider as he played some $10/$20nl full ring and 6-max. It was an interesting insight into higher stakes and the thought processes Doug goes through when he plays a hand. Recently, he has been experimenting with open min-raising in all positions at full-ring so it was good to see that in action. We played against some very well known professionals [...]

This blog has absolutely nothing to do with anything and I just wanted to post some pictures of my dog Smudge. Haven’t really had much poker content of late, I’ll try harder I promise!

As a bit of retail therapy for the recent downswing I’ve been on I went out and bought myself an itouch. I’ve been finding myself getting pretty bored at the gym and figured it could be a way to motivate me to go more and stay there longer. I got the 32gb version and so far I love it. I’ve only loaded on about 10gb worth of songs, but the rest of the space is [...]