I'm glad that I'm only playing online poker sparingly these days, otherwise I might just be tempted to play it a lot more. Go figure, I stopped playing poker and blogging regularly about it back last fall. I kept just less than $200 in my PokerStars account just in case I ever wanted to come back and play for fun. Well, after 6 months of just occasional play, I've tripled my bankroll just by playin...

Here's another entry for the technogeek in all of us. Check out this new workstation setup from NovelQuest. It's their upcoming Emperor workstation. It looks like a combination of a scorpion, a prop from the Alien movie and the Death Star throne from Star Wars. Just think how you'd look wrapped inside one of these while playing 20 tables at Full Tilt or PokerStars! Would work well for the upcoming...

After doing a lot of follow up, I found out the imposter was NOT on my Full Tilt account but rather created a similar name out on AIM. Still, it was a gentle reminder that I should change my passwords on my online accounts regularly. While I'm glad none of my accounts were hacked, it still is upsetting that someone could pick a name identical to one of mine and be accused of trying to scam people....

It pays to read your blog stat logs. I noticed a spike in readership today and it was all coming from a particular poker forum, one that I have never heard of before. I went to that site to look at who was referring to my site and found a thread where someone had posted a conversation that they had with a suspicious character on Full Tilt. Turns out it was MY ACCOUNT! Apparently, someone has hacked...

I didn't have much luck playing online poker for the first few years. I played a variety of games and at a variety of buy-in points. I'd struggle for a while, come back and then go on a bad streak. Rinse, repeat. But something has changed this year. I'm consistently winning. Why, all of a sudden, I seem to have found a groove? I haven't a clue. Have I been studying more? No. Have I been looking for...