Online Gambling Roundup Aug-17-09

Time for another digest of online gambling news from Golden Rule Of Gambling. Here’s today’s summary. Trust you all had a good weekend and here’s to a lucky week ahead.

Ashes Virgins

are up for discussion over at the betfair blog…

An unusual feature of this absorbing series is the high number of Ashes virgins thrown into the fray. At Cardiff, half of the twenty-two players had never experienced an Ashes Test match and most of those had been playing Test cricket for less than a year. With so many new faces around, pundits and punters alike did their best pre-series to pick out those most likely to succeed. The same names kept cropping up as men to watch: Philip Hughes and Mitchell Johnson for Australia, Ravi Bopara and Graeme Swann for England.

Sorry for cutting the talented and dedicated Betfair bloggers off in mid-flow, but you can read the rest of Monday’s post at the Betfair blog.

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The UltimateBet bloggers are chatting about poker all through the holiday-period. Here’s their latest contribution, all about

Drunken Poker Nights

in Aruba, with Aruba Aribas:

Those who have been to Aruba have undoubtedly seen the late night drunken cash games in the Radisson poker room. My second year in Aruba was the first year the event was held at the Radisson. The first night that year was a fun and crazy night in the poker room. This night basically set the tone for all first nights in Aruba that would follow.
The night started out like you would expect it to in Aruba, drinking Aruba Aribas as fast as they can bring them to you, and playing reckless 1/2 no limit holdem with a group of friends. So the table was a fun table, mostly filled with a group of players that had met in Aruba the previous year, with a few first timers. A few names you might recognize at the table were P0ker h0, Shawn Rice, YngmanN4quiki, and Fatcats. P0ker h0 had brought a friend this year named Bill who played with the UB name H0ldempr0.

So the hand that will be forever talked about ( at least by a few guys who were at the table) came down in a drunken stooper. I was in first position and put in a live straddle of $4. My buddy Mike (YngmanN4quiki) was first to act and raised to $20. A few people called including Bill on the button. I had last action as the straddler and looked down at 82 off suit. Of course in my drunkenness I decided to put in a raise to $100. Mike immediately goes Hollywood on me with ” Debo man I have a big hand here etc. Mike thinks for a good minute and makes it $240 to go. The action folds to Bill on the button and he goes for the Oscar right on night 1.

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