No, this is not a bad beat story! This more about how a lot of people apparently consider a small string of bad beats to be proof that an online site is “rigged.”
First a little back story, so earlier today I’m looking through reviews of poker sites. I’m currently have a very unsustainable […]

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Bodog.com no longer works and customers are being redirected to newbodog.com. You’ll have to download new software as well, as your old software won’t work. I’ve been through this process and it’s fairly painless.
According to the Bodog website:
Welcome to the new (temporary) Bodog. As you may know by now, Bodog.com is experiencing a […]

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So, it’s my birthday today. I might play some poker and complain that people shouldn’t beat me on my birthday. LOL
If you want to give me a present, you can click on one of my affiliate links or go to Amazon via the recommended reading list and buy some stuff for yourself (or […]

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One of my friends and a regular at my home game recently was in an accident that left him with a compound fractured clavicle and an injured lung. He’s a bartender in the French Quarter, so obviously he doesn’t have insurance (I could rant here about the lack socialized medicine here, but this is […]

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Recently, I read The Tao of Poker: 285 Rules to Transform Your Game and Your Life by Larry W. Phillips, a follow up to his previous book Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game. This is not your traditional poker book. There is no discussion of cards is […]

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Another lesson that I learned recently is not to get so excited about making a drawing hand that I don’t consider what else could still beat me.
Recently, I was on Bodog, drawing to an ace high flush. On the river, I made my flush. Problem is that the board was paired. Worse […]

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Recently, I was invited over to a friend’s house for what he described to me gleefully as “whacky poker.” Basically it went something like this, it’s a cash game where the dealer would get to choose the game and was encouraged to come up with the craziest rules they could think of (as long […]

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