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Below you’ll find a cloud of the 151 most commonly used words in online poker. The words are scaled to their frequencies in the Full Tilt Poker game chat. ”lol” is the most commonly used word, followed by “i” and “nh”.
We thought this was pretty interesting, so we’ve got a little contest to go along with it for our friends in the poker blogosphere.
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Dear Pokerblog Readers,
Dave McCarthy from Poker from the Rail here.
As you tell from the preceding post and new header, Michael Craig, who authored this blog since February 2007, has left the building.
Michael is a class act and a first rate writer, so we’re sorry to see him leave. But we’ll keep an eye on him and we wish him luck at his new blog, MichaelCraig.com, where he’s started off by reviewing some of his favorite stories and posts from his career at the Full Tilt Poker blog.
For now, this blog will see news, tips, and stories from Full Tilt and its team of Red Pros.
Remember that we’ve also got great commentary from poker’s best bloggers at: Poker from the Rail.
And, of course, for more things Full Tilt, including private tournaments and other giveaways, check out:
- Dave McCarthy
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Do you realize I’ve been writing this Blog for nearly four years? And that’s just in conventional, 365-day years. Much like dog-years, internet-years (and especially internet-poker-years) are accelerated. Here is some perspective:
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Caesars Interactive Entertainment – remember, it’s not called Harrah’s anymore – announced the dates for the 2011 World Series of Poker. The first event will begin on Tuesday, May 31, the day after Memorial Day. The Main Event will begin on Thursday, July 7 and will continue to feature four Day Ones (the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th). Main Event play will continue to July 19, when only nine players remain.
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While I was waiting in the parking lot of the Flagstaff AMTRAK station late Wednesday night, I saw an e-mail from Uncle Tilty regarding the robbery at the Bellagio. It warned players to be wary of $25,000-denomination chips from strangers and that the Bellagio was now in the process of taking those chips out of circulation.
The Bellagio was robbed? I was intrigued, but purely out of curiosity. I don’t have any $25,000 chips, from the Bellagio or anywhere else, and I never get offers to purchase them, at a discount or otherwise.
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The biggest development on Full Tilt in 2010 – and probably, in all of online poker (though I have an obvious institutional bias) – has been Rush Poker. Full Tilt recently unveiled two extensions of Rush Poker: Rush Poker Mobile and Rush on Demand tournaments. The former has the potential to revolutionize online poker (again), while the latter is merely some tinkering with multi-table SnGs. (In fact, the “On Demand” innovation isn’t even restricted to Rush Tournaments. Full Tilt also added $2 + $.25 SnGs on Demand and super-turbos on Demand from $2.50 + $.20 to $20 + $1.)
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I received a comment from a regular reader of the Blog, BK, asking me to correct an oversight, which I am happy to do. At the beginning of the WSOP last May, I reported about a high-stakes WSOP fantasy league, “WSOP Fight Club.” Eleven top players each put up $25k and drafted and bid on teams of eight players, receiving points based on those players’ finish in WSOP events. In the chaos at the end of the Series concerning the Ted Forrest-Mike Matusow weight-loss bet, I never posted the final results of the Fight Club.
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[Image of Dostoevsky mural in the Moscow train station, the opening of which has been delayed for concerns it will become a "mecca of suicides," from The Independent, www.independent.co.uk.]
Senate Majority Leady Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has drafted a bill to legalize online poker. Considering the complexity of the interests potentially supporting the measure – casino companies, Indian reservations, online gaming sites, poker players, banking companies – the draft bill, to have any chance of passing in the lame-duck session, probably needed the skills of one of the greatest writers of all time to accommodate all those interests into something coherent.. Looking at the 75-page bill on the PPA’s website, it looks like Senator Reid tapped Fyodor Dostoevsky for the job. The bill can do just about everything everyone supporting it wants, but accomplishing that has come at the cost of some twists worthy of classic Russian literature.
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Scheduled for only fifteen minutes prior to the finale of the 2010 WSOP Main Event, the Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony, gratefully, took double its allotted time. Nevertheless, I was amazed by how much history, humor, intelligence, gratitude, and emotion could burst from such a small package. I’m sure it had something to do with the gravitas of the inductees, Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel, but Harrah’s and ESPN would be smart, if they care about poker’s long-term acceptance as a “mainstream” competitive activity, to promote such events.
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One of the reasons Harrah’s provided in 2008 for delaying the Main Event final table was to give players a chance to line up endorsements. I think everybody recognized that Coke and Microsoft weren’t automatically going to start bidding to get their logos on players. It’s an incremental process, though, and you have to start by creating the market.
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