CCA couple of years ago, I was asked by the Los Angeles Times to review Anthony Holden's second poker book, Bigger Deal. At the time, my dealings-ahem-with poker were minimal. I had a weekly game with a rotating cast of high school friends; I lost most of the time, and on rare occasions, when I got really lucky, I left with enough money to pay my cab fare home.

PowerRating -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for May 6, 2009. Since late October market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This "fair market making" requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices.

Incredible Technologies, maker of Golden Tee Golf and other popular arcade games, is expanding into the electronic gaming device sector with some very innovative products. Here's a look at what the Arlington Heights-based company will be bringing to casinos by the end of the year: Magic Touch Keno: The video keno games that are out there now pale in comparison to what IT has developed.

At 23, Jordan Morgan has compiled a list of accolades that most poker players would be proud of over a lifetime. Jordan has been playing for five years, two of them professionally, and while he's certainly experienced his fair share of success, one thing has eluded him all this time: a first-place finish in a major live event.

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Sunday Night's show covered a task and a half. In the first task we had to create a display and take away package for Lifelock, an identity theft protection service. After that, we are asked to put on an Ivanka Trump Jewelry auction to raise money for our charities. I am going to talk about the second task in another blog that I will post right after this.

The Nokia N-Gage has become an increasingly popular platform lately with a large number of Nokia mobile phones receiving support for the software, and with a wide range of games becoming available for them. The platform does not work only on the Nseries devices, but on other handsets as well, and more to support it are expected to surface in the near future, while the list of games available seems to grow continuously too.

AM The latest report on the Las Vegas office market shows, again, there's a dramatic imbalance between supply and demand. Consulting firm Restrepo Consulting Group LLC said the Las Vegas Valley's speculative office market -- that is, space built without a tenant lease in hand -- closed the first quarter with a record 20 percent vacancy rate.

I'm sitting here, ready to ask questions and answer them as we continue this series of self-interviews. Today's word is 'Sandbag,' which means check and then raise, if an opponent bets. Since each interview is independent of all previous ones, I've decided to discontinue the consecutive numbering. From now on, I'm going to begin each interview column with question one Question 1: What's the best time to sandbag weak opponents?

A majority of gambling authorities agree that video poker play is as the manufacturers tell us: a completely random occurrence of a virtual deck being "shuffled" within a computer program. Every card has an equal chance of being dealt to us on the screen, one by one, off the top of the virtual deck.

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In the last few weeks I have received several inquiries from existing and prospective clients. They are curious to know if I look at the commitment of traders (COT) report and if I view it as a useful resource for commodities trading. The answers are yes and yes. There are so many useless reports that are issued, however the COT is an excellent source of information.

The World Series of Poker Academy Ladies Event has announced its return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on June 5-6, 2009. The ladies event is marking its third year teaching competitive poker from and for a women's perspective. The WSOP Academy was launched in January of 2007 by Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Harrah's Entertainment Inc.

As part of my writing duties this past week, I watched the final table of the $10,300 H.O.R.S.E. event run as part of the SCOOP tournament series on PokerStars. It was an event that drew 80 runners -- an impressive tally for an online high buy-in tournament. The final table was a drawn-out affair, taking three hours to play.

This article was first posted on the Simple Lifeforms blog on March 20th. In the wake of GDC and much talk about social gaming, I felt it was worth a reprint to the Gamaustra readership. This article describes 8 kinds of social game operating today (mostly on Facebook) and provides many examples.

Dalla is the consummate industry insider and also co-wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed biography "One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar.

Thanks in large measure to its persistence, the Czech Republic's role in U.S. missile defense plans is still on the table, with a formal decision on the issue postponed until the next session of the country's parliament convenes later this spring.

All the time these players had spent discussing poker strategy over the din of pool balls at Chelsea Billiards was starting to pay off.

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This was only the second camp - and the first in Las Vegas - to focus on Texas hold 'em cash games rather than tournaments, and it drew more than 50 participants.

The odds do not change if you play one or 100 hands on games with the same paytable, so don't change strategy when you go from a single- to a multi-play game.

Students whose trust was betrayed early on were far less likely to trust the computer as the games progressed.

Not all sites offer moneylines and point spreads on the same game but the fact is it s always great to have that option.

Prior to the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the U.S., Party Poker was one of the largest online poker rooms in the country.

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Some players believe you should act weak when bluffing. I disagree. I have found that the Esther Bluff is by far the best tactic.

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The only real question is: will the patch remove just the glitch or will it do anything else? (Like remove glitched winnings which would place a lot of glitchers into massive debt, or reset the leaderboards completely, or ban tournament glitchers for exploiting an ingame bug to their advantage on the XBox Live leaderboards etc).

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Five months after Eid was arrested, the Irish cops got Collins too. They searched one of the computers Eid had stolen and discovered the e-mail sent from Lying Eyes to Tony Luciano.