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Nov
16
2008

Clonie Gowen: All Lingerie and No Vest?

In my tenure as a consultant for commercial lawsuits, I read more than my fair share of initial complaints. Early on I realized these complaints often overbet the pot with farfetched claims, many of which can’t be supported by facts. So I wasn’t totally surprised by the far reaching claims of Clonie Gowen’s complaint against […]

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Nov
12
2008

How the NFL Grinch Stole Online Poker II

In the waning days of summer 2006, the recently appointed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and past commissioner Paul Tagliabue wrote Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-Va.) in an attempt to sway him to tag the UIGEA onto “must pass” defense spending legislation. Warner told them to go pound salt. But that didn’t slow […]

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Nov
02
2008

Day of the Dead, Tiffany, and Profs

Is that your dorsal fin or are you just happy to see us? — Overheard at the office on Halloween. While the boss dressed up as a man getting eaten by a shark, most of the rest of the office dressed up as the boss. It turns out that making fun of the boss was […]

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Oct
26
2008

I’m shocked, shocked…

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds? Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find that there is gambling going on here! Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Renault: Oh, thank you very much Alan Greenspan: Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder’s equity (myself especially) are in […]

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Oct
18
2008

Chicks (and Obama) Run Good

A couple of months ago, I got an email from Matt Showell over at PokerListings. It had something to do with a series of blogger freerolls. Between my day job, the book, and the few articles I was able to sneak in, I barely had time to pee. I had already reluctantly been passing on […]

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Oct
10
2008

One Step Beyond Tilt

I’m still surprised how similar the investment world is to the poker world – and how the people within those worlds are seemingly cut from the same cloth. But to some extent they play the same “risk versus return” game. And while each set of players knows that probability and odds factor strongly in their […]

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Oct
08
2008

She’s Baaaack

Well – within the next couple of days. In the mean time I’m pretty heartbroken about the loss of two years worth of my blog. And if there was a villian in all this, it was Bill Frist. But I’ll explain it all later. Over the next few days I’ll be working to build back […]

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Aug
22
2008

The First Rule of Fight Club

You don’t talk about fight club Chris Moneymaker’s win was always a double-edged sword for the poker media. It began the Cinderella model of coverage with the requisite fairy tale ending — where the winner was not only the most skillful, but the most worthy of taking home the glass slipper. And the money that […]

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Aug
16
2008

Backlogged…But That’s the Way I Roll

For some reason, I thought my days were going to be much easier once the WSOP ended, but I was obviously just in denial. I keep thinking of these great ubber posts I want to do, but there really isn’t going to be ubber time until the Matusow book is completed – which is still […]

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Jul
22
2008

Spoiler-Free, WPT, and Sadly Sammy

I won’t write about the Main Event until it starts to air on ESPN. I had no idea how many people don’t want to know anything until they see it on TV until I went to my home game last week. With my work day starting at 4:00 am during the WSOP and not ending […]

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