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It’s time to close the books and summarize another month.  I’m very happy and proud to say that February was twice as good as January.  I actually won the same number of buy-ins, but since I’ve played a little higher I doubled my income.  Either way I’m one step closer to my dream —>

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Recently a poker site announced a competition where you could win a seat in Gumball3000. If you are not familiar with the it, it’s a competition where rich brats and old farts drive expensive sports cars on our common roads, losing licenses and getting huges fines a long the way. Not to mention putting the rest of us in danger.  What I think of this is pretty obvious and it goes hand in hand with my thoughs about the pokersite and its promotion!

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In the first episiode of High Stakes Poker we could see how Tom Dwan offered Phil Ivey $2000 after the hand against Phil Hellmuth if he could show a hand better than a pair of jacks.  Since Ivey had QQ he could have showed the hand and cashed $2k from Dwan.  Ivey still choosed to muck his hand with a smile.  So why did Ivey say no to free money?!?  In his eyes it was worth more to let the other players belive that he might have had a bad hand and was making a play and maybe it was because of this that Ivey managed to take the rest of Hellmuths stack later in the show.  On top of that Ivey, who we usually see very quite at the table, folds the next hand and says something like “same hand as last hand” and everybody except Hellmuth laughs:)

Sorry guys it’s in Swedish :(  But for those of you who want to check it out, enjoy!

I read an article in Metro tuesday the 16th of February about a Swedish 17-year old who had found a credit card on a tram.  The guy took the card, went home and opened no less than 4 poker accounts on different poker sites and used the newly found credit card to deposit bankrolls.  I think that it’s frightening that it’s that easy to commit fraud online.  Unfortunately no pokersite has the guts to demand documentation with the first deposit cause they are afraid that the player will go elsewhere for their gaming needs.  With a fake e-mail address and a googled address and phone number it is easy to create an account in somebodys name and start gaming.  I wish that the industry would take more action against fraud like this and increase their security.  Hopefully we’ll see more of that in the future!