News And Results Roundup Nov-13-09

It’s Friday the 13th, traditionally the unluckiest of days, but fear not, Golden Rule Of Gambling’s regular roundup of breaking news in the online gambling world is all you need to ward off misfortune. Here is your Friday update. May your weekend be full of fun.

Yesterday’s daily play numbers for the UK lottery were :

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26

Today’s lucky random numbers for lotto players are :

4 , 7 , 10 , 15 , 19 , 20 and 27 . Hope you win!

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Today’s lucky random roulette number for rouletters is 27 Red. That’s your number-buddy at the tables for today!

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To Betfair now, where they have

An Interview with James McManus:

Last week I reviewed Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus, and mentioned there that I had the chance to interview the author. McManus and I spoke by phone a couple of weeks ago, just before he was about to embark on a book tour to promote Cowboys Full. It was great fun talking with him about the book as well as several other poker-related topics.

As a person interested in not just the history of poker but the history of poker writing — and since Cowboys Full includes references to dozens of other poker narratives — I thought I’d start by asking McManus about this tradition of poker literature into which he’s entered.

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Short-Stacked Shamus: You make reference to a number of other poker books in Cowboys Full. What are some of the ones you believe to be especially good or important?

James McManus: Well, Cowboys Full has a selected bibliography that lists all the books I think are essential. Of course, many of them were from the 19th century, but the key books for me from the 20th and 21st centuries begin with Herbert O. Yardley’s The Education of a Poker Player (1957), which gets three chapters in my book. I think it is important because it is the first blend of tactical advice and riveting poker narrative.

More of the interview can be found by reading Friday’s post at the Betfair blog.

View Full Betfair Blog Post Here

Meanwhile UltimateBet are

Blind With Excitement

about some changes to their room :

I am really excited about some awesome changes in the blind structures at UB. I designed the structures that we have been using for years and I have always been pretty damn proud of them. But even a good thing can become better and last week I ripped back through those bad boys and made some big changes with the help of Roothlus :) The changes are huge. Amazing. Crazy! Okay. I know I am exaggerating but I am really excited about them.

We have added tons of level including the 250/500 level for all tournaments. That is a big change because it means you don’t get that big 50% jump anymore from the 200/400 level to the 300/600 level. That is a big jump that I am so psyched we have reduced to two 25% jumps instead. IN our deepstack tournaments, we had this crazy 5/10 level in there which, when you start with 5K in chips was pretty useless. So we got rid of that but added in a 25/50 level instead. I love that change. Start a little higher so the hands in the first round might actually matter but smooth out the structure later so you aren’t just losing a level.

Speeds up the action a little, too - we like this change!

The change to the deepstack events is part of a new policy that some tournaments will now have different structures than others, depending on buy-in and starting stack. Tournaments which start with more than 3K in chips now have a different structure than those that start lower and any tournament with a $500 buy-in or more has a new structure. In total:

1) For events 3K chips and higher the 5/10 level has been removed but a 25/50 level has been added.

You can catch up on the full list of changes by swinging by Friday’s post at the UltimateBet blog.

View Full UltimateBet Blog Post Here

Signing off for now - don’t walk under any ladders guys!

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