Can Social Media help a new Poker site grow?
Image by fredcavazza via Flickr While this topic is almost completely out of my area of expertise, I am fortunate to have a terrific resource – my son, Chris of ChrisBrogan.com. He has given a lot of help to a lot of people over the years on how to expand one’s presence over the web-o-sphere. [...]
More time spent at Full Rush Poker
Image via Wikipedia I consider myself to my a Limit Hold ‘Em player. That is a form of Texas Hold ‘Em that I have studied the most and have had good results with. One other reason for playing Limit Hold ‘Em is to control the amount of variance or losses that I might sustain during [...]
Thoughts about posts concerning running bad
Image by hoyasmeg via Flickr Some of my posts of the last thirty days have contained statements I have made about running bad. While this certainly does happen, it is really not interesting to others, other than myself and those who are winning against me. One of the blogs that I read weekly is DonkFestPokeer.com [...]
Some online poker sites use the same network as others – OMG
Image via Wikipedia In previous posts, I said that one of my original sites for playing poker was DoylesRooms. But they had stopped taking on US players and my cash account was frozen and I had moved on to other sites. At some point, late last year or early this year, DoylesRoom started to allow [...]
Does it matter how many players are on a site at a given time?
Image by ducamendes via Flickr The short answer may be yes and no. I would say that it all depends on what is happening at a specific day and time. For US players, the largest amount of players may be found at PokerStars (PS) and FullTilitPoker (FT) with PS having almost a two to one [...]
Full Rush Poker – a preliminary review of this new poker site
Image by waffler via Flickr Based on the recommendation of fellow twitterer @Mitchell1969, I decided to try out a new poker site called “Full Rush Poker”, no association with “Full Tilt Poker”. I tried doing an internet search on Full Rush Poker to determine who actually runs and owns it but came up empty. I [...]
Poker – Gambling addiction is a serious issue
Image by Schlomo Rabinowitz via Flickr The following is a brief discussion on problem gambling. I bring it up because I know that it exists and want others to know as well. There are many avenues of help for the troubled gambler. Check your state to see what resources are available to help some one [...]
Poker Players Alliance – A poker advocacy group
Image via Wikipedia The Poker Player Alliance (PPA), is considered to be the largest and most effective of all the poker advocacy groups in America. The following paragraph about the PPA is from their “about page” and says what they are about: “The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is a non-profit membership organization comprised of online [...]
Poker to benefit Charities – and there are quite a few of them
Image via Wikipedia In New Hampshire, we have legalized gambling of a sort. Poker is played at our race tracks and at various poker rooms around the state. The way it works is they take a portion of the rake, usually around 35c of every dollar goes to charity. The rake is the amount that [...]
Poker Blogs – and there are a lot of them out there`
Image by qthrul via Flickr I subscribe to at least 58 poker blogs and I read most of them by using Google Reader, an online program by Google that lets me organize my blog reading into folders if I want. Google reader shows new updates to blogs by Bolding them. Once they are read, the [...]
