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Sunday nights always turn into Monday mornings.

Yup, it’s Sunday night again. Time really just disappears. The weather in Vegas has been really weird but thankfully the temp hasn’t been crazy hot. I’m still trying to figure out how to bling out this webpage, but this will work for now…just need to find some hours to actually work on it.

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Play for fun, play for the win.

Poker should be fun, when you can’t play live…at least play for real. Let me know your screen name and we can play for fun. See you at the tables.

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Can you believe it is almost August?

Time sure does fly by. It felt like yesterday that I was so excited about the 2009 WSOP…that feeling has come and gone. Every year I get so excited about the World Series of Poker and it seems as if every year I get more and more disappointed. Not as a my result of my play but more so the atmosphere at the Rio.

I remember when it was a great few weeks of poker, friends and fun. I guess my 8th grade teacher was right when he said you’ll never realize how much you will enjoy the now until later. This is a very true statement. It seems as if the WSOP has lost it’s true meaning of holding a poker tournament and allowing people to actually play poker. I understand it is a business and that the number of people they need to accomidate is huge, but seriously, this is their job and their business…as it is of some of the players who make a living playing poker.

How do they expect players to play a fair tournament without a solid set of rules, don’t they realize that rules are needed to educate players, for their staff to operate and their dealers to be trained by. Rules are usually only needed and looked at when a question arises, usually a discrepency…which is detrimental to tournament players. One wrong ruling and it can make or break your tournament. I won’t even get into the cash game side, as they are completely cluesless and unfair when it comes to running cash games, which is the reason I decided not to play there despite the juicy games. The real problem with the WSOP is the lack of consistancy and lack of training & knowledge when it comes to operations of the actual game of poker.

Everyone whos anyone who has ever played at the Rio during the WSOP knows that if you get a ruling that you don’t like, all you have to do is get another ruling and sooner or later, you will get the outcome you wanted. Granted, it has gotten a little better in the past year, but depending who you, what event you are playing and whos around, this is the norm. How fair is that?

Even worse is that ESPN actually shows the bad rulings and favortism on tv, and the public has no clue. This is a shame. Everyone is trying to move poker into main stream, to make the game legal in certain countries and online. You have the PPA (Poker Player’s Alliance), had the WPA (World Poker Association), now the IFP (International Poker Federation) and countless other associations and federations who are all working towards the same goal…but don’t the understand the first step is to educate the public, show them how skill prevails over luck and give them some rules to play by to ensure fairness. As you may or may not know, Marcel Luske and I started FIDPA, Federation Internationale de Poker Association…yes, I know, another association / federation. Our goal and mission is simple…have a standardize set of base rules that are fully modifiable, so that card rooms / tournaments can operate how they want, but be able provide players with information needed. The problem is that players and the industry have absolutely no standard, no base, no foundation of rules. Sure, we all think we know the basic rules, but according to who. It took me about a year to learn, question and write 80 rules. I talked, listened, read, wrote and travelled to anyone who could help. We used the TDA rules as a base to start, but the TDA rules are only that, a start. I won’t get into that right now.

Anyway, we now have The International Poker Rules (The IP Rules) completed. I know everyone wants to know where they are, where can they read them, etc. Well, first I want everyone to understand, we put a lot of work, time and money in FIDPA and the IP Rules. We are not funded by online companies or anyone else. This has been a project from our heart, with a passion to fill a void. We are not looking to be hired as a tournament director, we are not looking to control the poker world or gain noteriety or fame or run a tournament. We did this because it makes sense and everyone agrees that it is needed, but no one wants to step up. Marcel and I have sacrified a lot to accomplish and finish what we started and we still have a way to go. I am working, what feels like day and night to get this going. I am not a website designer or programmer, I’m not a tournament director or a government official…I am simple a person who believes in fairness and happens to want to play poker on a professional level and have some business experience. The website will be up soon…August 2009.

I need to run…but I’ll be back to continue.

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