Standbackworld X FILES POKER: November 2009

Poker friends are some of the BEST friends.. Thanks everyone! Especially KIM SHANNON and JOE NAVARRO

This past week sure was busy for Big Daddy!

New links and events added to the site XFilespoker.com - (From here on in, known as "XFP")

This week I re-learned something. (Something Major)

Moss does not grow on a rolling stone.... We have to keep ourselves moving.

I "feel so alive..." LOL. It may sound silly but just like MATT DAMON'S line in the poker movie ROUNDERS. (It's true) I have to be ME. I just plain love poker, I just love MEETING & READING PEOPLE. I'm not sure I'll ever know why I LOVE poker and POKER PLAYERS so much.. Guess poker is in my blood. Guess I'm a goner.

This week, Joe Navarro - The Nonverbal Expert gave XFP his blessings on a special forum on "Poker TELLS." Joe is famous to all us rounders due to his connection with the poker brat himself Phil Hellmuth. His sharing of information is fantastic.. I hope all reading this blog will buy his books! (He's a good man with much to offer to your poker game)

This alone, (Meeting Joe on-line) would have made me happy. but no no.. so much more was in store for me. Thank you Mr. Navarro.

Here is link to Joe's site By the way... Navarro-tells web site click here - If you are on TWITTER - Follow Mr. Navarro and I, as we are always twittering back and fourth. (follow @navarrotells and @xfilespoker)

Another big thing that happened was the hooking up with some "really special" new XFP forum members.. Fellow blood brothers & sisters @kimshannon @callmeroger @callmecaveman @morieeel to name just a few. You can meet them all on TWITTER.

Kim and the crew - really GET my whole concept behind the XFP WEB SITE - and in a very short time they have ignited a very exciting forward motion of growth. @rezzzpoker @Sycostevesethe1st @mretiface and many many more who have been with us since day one - Also need mention. (If I forgot anyone.. it's just my lack of sleep) Let me know and I'll make the fix.

My forum guys and gals (Kim's doing) topped off my week with a MAJOR cherry - A video showing some of the male member's from my poker forum.. KIM, I luv ya. Here is the VIDEO - THE MEN of XFP - ENJOY!

So much happened this week... Can't remember it all.. and I know the coming weeks are going to be even better. Added this past week.. TWITTER POKER TOUR LINKS, #TPT hash tag on TWITTER. "Tom's Stashed Cash.." plus regular scheduled poker games on FULL TILT POKER - for XFP forum members... XFP on-line poker GAME CALENDAR

Also added was the XFP NEWS LINK...

Last but not least.. (Mother-ship) It's CLOSE.. So close! Soon we will have an on-line poker site with real integrity.. Soon my members will be able to PLAY POKER ON-LINE! Instead of PLAYING ON-LINE POKER.. (No way that RNG is random.. sorry folks) Soon! Soon. Stand by.. 'speaking with mother-ship almost daily and he's posting in the forum as well.. (Mrrealdeal)

OK.. Who wants to play some poker! Download the FULL TILT SOFTWARE HERE and enter the BONUS CODE "Santa."

Most our on-line poker games are LOW LIMIT buy ins or Free rolls. NO DEPOSITS REQUIRED for FREE ROLLS.

Hope you're all flopping quads today.. See ya on the poker forum.

The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER

MrXfilespoker

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Game two today on FULL TILT - Always feeling SET up on FULL TILT

If you are going to BLUFF - try to avoid making a move on a MAJOR hand.. This happened to me today... I was card dead - He was hitting every hand - I TOOK A SHOT.. LOL

Love Full tilt poker for a good laugh. Http://www.xfilespoker.net/phpbb if you want to chat poker and play in our group NL games.

As I was posting this BLOG - I ran into this HAND - huh? SO SOON? (Daily $1) It's not even funny how many times I have the goods and get beat on the river.. or turn - I should have just folded here - (Play FULL TILT RNG POKER)

Oh well - Next game TONIGHT is the Xfilespoker.com TWITTER 9pm GAME. For info - http://www.xfilespoker.net/calendar We play these games every night of the week. Come say hi in the FORUM too! Make your first post and get involved.. Post some POKER chat/thougts soon.

In about 2 days - we will have poker games for the Xfilespoker crew - day and night - weekends too.. Keep an eye on the calendar - for games and NEW promotion "Tom's STASHED cash" (see forum for details)

Very soon - we will be PLAYING POKER ONLINE instead of PLAYING ONLINE POKER...

(Online poker IS nothing close to real poker - I'll bank my last worthless $1 on it)

Hey... Did you hear the joke..

McDonalds is offering a NEW "OBAMA MENU" - You go to the counter - ORDER WHATEVER YOU LIKE and the guy behind you has to pay for it!!! (Time for TERM limits)

Saturday, November 14, 2009

One Man with Courage - Makes a Majority. Read about my day PROTESTING ILLEGALS in the rain with Dan, Greig and Ruth.

I love lines like the title of this blog. (Andrew Jackson I respect) I have these words of Mr. Jackson's, framed and hanging on the walls of my living room. The man running the event today (The event I'm about to share with all of you) made me think of how much I love this framed message from many years ago.

Today (Hazleton, PA) - I took part in a friendly protest against illegal aliens in the United States. It was a very small crowd. It had many supporters BEEPING horns and waving hands - as well as a few snickers and hard looks towards the protesters. (It's America - and while I can do this sorta thing.. I'm doing it. We never want to lose this valuable right we all have. Its how I see it anyways.) It's not my first time at such events. I wish we had more of them.

At the gathering, (Hard to call it a rally really with 9 people - hmm they did have mega phones x 2 however) I ran into a researcher from the University of Liverpool - It was a super cool afternoon for me... It was like I was transported to a street in London as I stood there in front of my cites CITY HALL. I had to stay too - I couldn't let them (mostly kids) stand alone. I respect people who have the guts to take a side... (Like Dan and Ruth - More on them to come)

Greig Campbell, MA (Researcher) my new bloke from London told me in one of our conversations.. something close to this.. "AMERICANS know their history.." and from what he told me.. The mans done his homework on American history, especially in the Hazleton Pa area. (I agree with Greig here) Americans DO KNOW THEIR HISTORY.. We just need more Americans to wake up and get their heads out of the sand... before all our cities get turned upside down.

You see.. Hazleton Pa, if you go back about 10 years - never had gunfire in the streets.. (It was once every ten years that GUNFIRE made a news story here) Now, after the rush of people coming in.. - it's almost an everyday event. Legal or not legal - The people doing all the shooting need to be run out of town on rail - In other words..They can go back the hell where they come from.

I told you people I love Ted Nugent.

I also ran into a nice lady named Ruth who, turned out.. drove a good while to be a part of this peace-full protest. I took a picture of her as we stood in the fog and rain. I'll add it to the end of this post.

Let me go on the record. I love all people everywhere - HELL I play poker!!! Poker is the biggest MELTING POT ever. I just happen to LOVE the LAW OF MY LAND and I LOVE the UNITED STATES of AMERICA more!! I'm very tired of all the Spanish speaking going on in public... all the big business selling us out. If you love America??. LOVE AND RESPECT AMERICA by speaking English. RESPECT.

If you are an ASSHOLE - I don't care what color or race you are. YOU'RE just an ASSHOLE.

I'd like our leaders and citizens to Love and respect AMERICA by keeping AMERICANS working.. By not shipping jobs overseas.. by CLOSING the boarders (Who leaves the door wide open after an event like 9/11? That's right - NO ONE! Unless you are AMERICA) It's clear to me - many in Washington DC - sold themselves and us OUT long ago. It's harder for them to hide this simple facts as we enter the insane world of TAX AND SPEND (Spending money we don't have - Our KIDS MONEY.) ALL THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE... and FAST.

P E R I O D.

If you are here, living in the USA - legal or illegal.. and you love the country that you came from, more than the United States - (and yes.. It is your right) That's fine. HERE'S THE THING! It's also MY RIGHT to tell all of you to Get the hell outta here and go back home....and take your gun shooting criminals back home with ya. (oh.. that feels good - try it!)

Most of you here might not remember John Wayne. That last passage was his style (My style too)Hey Illegals!

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS. (I (we) love my/our guns - but I/we don't go around shooting at people in the streets) Some of us hunt, target practice and own them to protect our homes.. Americans will never give up their guns without a fight.. Americans want peace.. but we are not afraid to FIGHT for our RIGHTS.. We will protect ourselves when they come looking to take our firearms away. (Don't think it can't happen folks) HISTORY showed us all what happens when people lose their right to own arms.

The event in Hazleton today was promoted or "sold" in the local NEWSPAPER (Today mind you - Thanks for the heads-up Standard Speaker) as a TEA PARTY event (Maybe this event was reported to make the Tea party look bad as Dan's groups are much smaller "Usually" - He's had some big ones too) - The event today is actually an event from the www.voiceofthepeopleusa.com - Here is a YOU-tube of Dan working. He's a good younger man with a lot of passion.

Dan does not do it for money. (He said he takes no money) NO WONDER HIS EVENTS ARE SMALL.. You must advertise! Hell the kids today are not even on TWITTER!???

Being a great American, with balls, I stood with Dan and a few others in the rain, even though I thought I was going to a TEA PARTY event. (I'm not clear on the Tea Party and I wanted to 'see and hear" things for myself) I respect people who speak their mind... Dan's a good American. I might not agree with everything Dan says (Truth is I don't know everything about DAN) - As to his message on illegals in the USA - I'm 101% behind him.

In America. - We already have good laws of the land. It's a kick in the teeth to all citizens who live everyday following the laws... Also the people who worked hard to get to America the legal route.

PEOPLE are not ASSIMILATING.. (My gut tells me they don't want to and never will..) WAKE UP AMERICA! They can stay - but they got to STAND by the RED WHITE AND BLUE.

I spoke for a good while with Dan - He worked the clean-up from the towers in NYC. He lost a few family members on that horrible day as well.. You can see it in his face - how upsetting all of it is to him. Since 2001 - He's been standing up and speaking against illegals to anyone that will listen. One or thousands..

Today's event in Hazleton, Pennsylvania was very small... but hey.. They were out there and you have to respect that.

Here is a picture of RUTH - Like Ruth, I also love the flag of the UNITED STATES. (Also a past President of the Hazleton Elks Lodge #200 The Elks stand for God and Country) I have to get me one of these umbrella's Ruth!

If anyone reading this blog is into poker or KNOWS someone that LOVES poker - Please send them to the XFilesPOKER forum sign up page and please bookmark this blog. I always play these days on FULL TILT POKER - Sign up GREAT AMERICANS! Then - let's talk poker!

Oh! The best part of today! Remember that BLOKE from London - He want's to interview me.. (Maybe I can plug poker in the UK) no.. LOL. He told me he could get me pictures of the BREAKER from my small COAL TOWN in which I live. I feel like I won a huge pot of chips by meeting him. I've been looking for quality pictures of our breaker (which burned down in the 70's or 80's can't remember) for years now.

He also suggested a book by Susan Campbell Bartoletti - (Growing up in Coal Country) She is a Sibert Medal-Winning Author of BLACK POTATOES.

Greig Campbell - is currently writing a book. Keep an eye out for him.. He's a smart cookie.

Well - That's all for now! Remember Americans! FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!

Thanks to our service men and women (USA) again as well. All of you ROCK!

NEXT POKER GAME I'm PLAYING (I tanked in the first one today) 9pm est. on FULL TILT POKER - Come on! Sign up and try and get my chips! I play poker like a game of WAR.

The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER

MrXfilespoker

XFilesPOKER "TWITTER" poker games start today! Search @xfilespoker on TWITTER

Today! The XFilespoker games BEGIN! WHO WILL TAKE DOWN THE FIRST XFILES/TWITTER games? Maybe you?

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Play me BIG DADDY! Show me your poker skills then chat about action on the xfilespoker forum.

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The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER

MrXfilespoker

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XFilespoker Twitter poker games - Our poker forum and a great American named Joe. (US NAVY)

Full Tilt and the Navy.

Today on FULL TILT POKER I played quite a few small limit games (tourneys) and had a mix of hard luck and one cash (3rd place - 90 player knockout game) For my forum members who know my style play.. I'll show a picture (BELOW)of the final 3 players.. I'm "Bigtime loser" - (Note- I go in with the best and I'm out like the rest!)

Today we posted on the forum that TODAY November 14, 2009 X-FILES-POKER will be starting PRIVATE (password protected) games for our forum members as well as our pals on TWITTER (@xfilespoker) The games will run on FULL TILT POKER EVERY DAY @ 9pm est. There will also be other poker games at various times of the day, as needed - Weekend games too.. Games will be LIMIT , NL and STUD and H.O.R.S.E. for now. (Suggestions can be made in forum.. We will do what we can to get it right)

I'll be playing in as many "BUT NOT ALL" of these games as possible (During winter months) with a focus on a special run game called "Tuesdays with Tom on Full Tilt.." The games above will be $1.50 and $2.50 and the Tuesday game will be a $5.50 buy in game

Today in the xfilespoker forum!

Earlier on our xfilespoker forum XFILESPOKER FORUM SIGN UP A new member (&Great American) named Joe (US NAVY) came on and posted about his idea's on how on-line poker "might" be rigged. I thought it was odd that he DID THIS in his 2nd post and he later mentioned it was the sites statement of allowing an open talk on the subject (poker being rigged or not) as to why he logged on & signed up. Joe found us on TWITTER.

FYI - Xfilespoker does not say on-line poker IS or IS NOT rigged - We welcome any and all question's and idea's on the subject.

Here is the snippet posted by Joe

"I just dropped this one on your forum for possible on-line rigged play. Enjoy.

"I believe and this is just my personal experience, look first if they are in the leader board, if they are and you hold QQ or higher, see the flop as cheaply as possible, if you do and the flop misses your hand entirely and he shoves all in, the A$$hole has some sort of RNG or works for the site to collect winnings for the site (maybe, just saying, its obviously not the truth just speculation). Also, I try and avoid any hands that guy is in for the rest of the tourney. Pay closer attention to how people on your table (especially deeper in the game) and also pay attention to the leaders that just blast through the first few hands of the tourney and make notes on just how fast they are winning to keep in mind who you need to avoid. If the player that is winning is playing correct and calls normal hands and doesn't win with junk (Q-4 o/s and trips his 4's) then it maybe safe to tangle with, if not, fold and wait. These tactics have helped me place deeper in the tourney. Let them cheaters beat the piss out of the other players deep. You just keep climbing the ladder until you get cut. I know that is like laying down and taking it but if you are a glutton for punishment and like playing against either
1. Really, really good players
2. Really Really lucky players
3. Really really cheating players
4. Or just plain psycho loose donkeys

then that is your punishment. Happy hunting!!"

Joe

The reason I show this post from the forum is to let readers know that we are talking about this subject in our forum often and we welcome both sides to the debate. Say what you like.

I myself lean to the fact that on-line is "not right" - but it's just my thinking and it's based on GUT more than stats or data.. My guts are good enough for me. I trust my gut.

The forum is picking up nice and I expect that many will return for the winter. We have a lot of good players in our forum..

Let's see.. We started the PAL TALK service as well - For use during Tom's classes/Forum poker games. If you need PAL TALK - It's a free download and can be found here - DOWNLOAD PALTALK HERE - Once downloaded - Search for "XfilespokerTwitterGames" (on word - no spaces) This is my account.

What else.. Hmm Well - Big news hit the WSOP and poker world as Jeffrey Pollack resigned As Harrah's WSOP Commissioner - I've not read into the topic but I think he was quoted as saying he was.. leaving to "'explore new business challenges." Sounds to me like he was let go in a nice way.

Maybe Harrah's wants to make a break with the old guard and usher in a whole new crew/plan for 2010. Hell even FT poker hired "Tom Duuur Dwan" - My guess to appeal to the 15-20 years olds that will soon be flocking to the the live tables in the coming years. (I'll have a good blog on my thoughts of all the young guns in poker coming very soon)

My thoughts on Pollack and WSOP - I think many mistakes were made and too many complaints came pouring in from players and fans in the last few years - My big gripe was with the live audio coverage of this years WSOP - Bluff Magazine's coverage went from VERY GOOD to REALLY bad - It was great with Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth, etc.. and very bad with what I'll call the KIDS.. (I don't know their names - never heard of most of them) Their take (When Annie and Phil left the air) sounded like 7th grader material and was many times crude and well, Rude.. The W.S.O.P is a BIG production and it the biggest event in all of poker - happens only once a year - It needs to be more polished and professional period. (A piss pore job makes poker players, poker itself, HARRAH'S and WSOP look bad in my eyes) POKER WILL GET SO MUCH BIGGER IF THE RIGHT MOVES ARE MADE. HARRAH'S need to have much better oversight on such things in 2010 and beyond.. (I'm available for the right price.. wink wink.) There were of course other big complaints as well.. such as not having enough poker tables/dealers - Players turned away.. FOOD QUALITY.. etc.. Do a search WSOP + BAD - I'm sure there are more.

I met Mr. Pollack and good number of times at the wsop (He's not a close friend) He's always been very nice. Given the task and the insane growth of poker since 2003 - I'd say he did a good job overall.. It's time to move on - try something new. I'm excited to see what goes down next.

I'm going long here.. If you are new to my blog - WELCOME. If you are new to POKER welcome! Please consider joining our POKER FORUM and signing up today. It's worth it alone for "Kim Shannon's Hot Tub" - but the new poker games we have everyday now - should give our members hours of poker fun. Plus you get to try and take me out! Good luck with that.

you can track my every move on TWITTER (@xfilespoker)

Let's get on-line and play some cards! Any questions - Hit us up on the forum.

The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER
MrXfilespoker
Xfilespoker Poker Forum
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Monday, November 9, 2009

Poker, pink Cadillac's and a WSOP Bracelet.. Darvin Moon vs. Joe Cada HEADS UP NL Hold-em 11/09/09

That's Moon in the CENTER with the light shirt (and my belly)

Look, I'm in Pennsylvania this year.. I'm no where near Las Vegas or the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and yet.. I'm feeling CLOSER to this years event than ever before.

One reason. Darvin Moon.

Here is the GUY I have to push for.. For his cool name (Cool names always win pokers BIG ONE) For the fact that he's a regular dude.. worker bee kinda player. He's OLD SCHOOL.

It's Moon vs. Cada in the 2009 WSOP! Wooot! Let's get it on!

Not to take away from Joe Cada, he's one great player to get this deep in a field of poker players so huge and so talented. (He's also very lucky! He won races with small and medium pocket pairs.. as well as AK) My point is.. Mr. Cada is young. He has the rest of his life to go for the poker gold. (I'll write a blog on Mr Cada as well.. as soon as it comes to me)

For now though, enough of Mr. Cada.. Let this 40 something poker playing (poor writing) rounder since 1991.. soak all this in and enjoy all this years poker action. This blog is for my new pal Mr. Moon.

Now - To get this blog straight and to keep things honest - Mr Moon has had his share of "what the hell" poker moves during the final table "November nine hands" that were played out at the Rio Hotel and Casino. Strange moves like NOT CALLING a huge pot.. when a player could call with one of the cards BLANK, lol.. (Due to the pot size,position and amount to call)

Then there was an odd move calling an after flop all in with A4 (having nothing on the flop, bad draws and scare cards galore) He should have considered SET? TWO PAIR.. Nope - HE CALLED WITH NADA! It's hard to understand this huge miss step from Mr Moon.. We can GUESS he THOUGHT he was holding AA (It happens) or that the player, again, plain missed all together (but an ALL IN in this GAME?)... It's a major stretch. I joked that it might have been one of the BEST"Advertising moves of bad poker play EVER!" - Sure.. He lost a few chips.. But NOW look at the players scratching their heads.. (ALL OVER THE WORLD) In the end.. Most of us will agree.. The move sure did suck.

Even still.. The man named Moon was patient all summer- and made it to the November nine.. plus, hell - "People everywhere and pros "like him." (I think I read he never once had 1 ALL IN move to get to the November Nine)

I could go on and on about poker and Mr. Moon - I'm sure we all have a lot to learn about this WSOP MAIN EVENT "heads-up" poker playing Moon man.

Here are just a few of the reasons why I like this guy..that stuck out (to me)

* He's a WORKER. (A mans man) He is not a college drop out chasing the poker dream or a son of people with mega means..

*Moon is a logger.. C'mon. A logger to a WSOP bracelet winner?? JAMES DEAN COOL! Anyone who reads my blog for a few years knows I cut trees for exercise - hobby.. and for heating my compound.. not to mention to get OUTSIDE in the deep woods... Teach my 6 year old about working hard. (**Away from everyday life.. the wild) **Try it sometime it's awesome!

*Phil Hellmuth reported on Bluff Magazine radio that Moon (Up to the heads up action at least) had refused offers of up to 500,000.00 to wear on-line poker sites gear. caps, patches - etc.. He said something to the effect of... "He did not want to promote things he knew little about and he did not want to be owing anyone anything.. He just wanted to play poker." Man has some Integrity.

*He was helping Fire fighters raise money via poker tournaments when he won his seat.. (He had choice of CASH or 10K buy in) With his brothers pushing - He took the 10K buy in. Yeppers - More cool.

*He's buying his father a Pink Cadillac.. (This story alone sucks me in to this man's poker life/story)
Do I need to go one here?
Don't worry - "I will" and in very short order... You can BET on it!

If you play on-line and want to give me idea's to post about or if you just want to chat poker - Come visit me on FULL TILT POKER or at the FREE "Xfilespoker.com Poker Forum"

You can also follow me via Twitter - @xfilespoker

Heads up POKER "ACTION" - Tonight! Darvin Moon vs. Joe Cada - Me and my pals will e live on TWITTER - listening to the AUDIO from Vegas. Come joins us!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

POKER PRO Phil Ivey BUSTS OUT EARLY - Earlier than expected... WORLD SERIES OF POKER TALK & FREE ROLL INFO

OK all poker fans! - We posted the WELCOME BACK free roll info in the Xfilespoker.com calendar. (see link to calendar on Xfilespoker CALENDAR ) This free roll is for ALL forum members.

Fun time last night with forum members on Twitter (@xfilespoker) talking poker! Ivey busted as I predicted.. a little earlier than expected.

I got crushed playing LOW LIMIT NL poker on FULL TILT POKER - I'll blame it on keeping up with Phil Ivey.

We all left the poker/twitter action about 4am -and woke to insane news that it will be CADA (almost to the felt last night) vs. Moon! HEADS UP poker!
We here at Xfilespoker.com must support MOON - It would be UN-alien not to. (lol) Think of all the MARKETING the poker world could push to death.. "To the MOON Alice! I'm playing POKER!"
We seen some silly cards from MOON and some super aggressive and LUCKY play from CADA.. This heads up poker match should be neat to watch..
I give them both credit - Hell - They are sitting there and we are watching! I like that MOON did not sell out to the POKER machine that IS the "current monster on-line poker companies." He passed on a sure 500,000.00 per Phil Hellmuth's radio visit on bluff magazines audio cast. To me.. that is very cool.
All the kool-aide drinking poker fans will have to wait another few lifetimes to see Ivey at that final table - as more and more players are figuring this NL poker game out. I hate to keep peeing on everyones parade - but I don't see it happening. He is HUMAN after all.. Winning bracelets 5+ years ago vs. today is a much tougher task to pull off. With that said - No doubt he's a master of the game.

I wish I was there! Maybe in 2010!

The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER

MrXfilespoker

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Frustrated fans of poker WSOP 2009 the NOVEMBER NINE - If it's a LIVE tv event - I sure can't find it..

I'm on Twitter (xfilespoker) and all over the web today pulling what little bit of hair I have left, OUT! I'm searching for information on today's big WSOP final table. (November Nine) I could swear I read somewhere a while back that said today's event was going to be broadcast "live." The World Series of Poker (main event) is the biggest game of the year for poker fans.

This years event finally gives us MAJOR poker ACTION with a major TV poker PRO - He's short stacked against some really good players. (Players that had months of rest and time to READ UP and study their foes) He does not need any introduction in this blog "for anyone following pro poker." (For any poker newbies.. His name is IVEY)

ESPN needs to drop back and punt when it comes to covering these events. I'm scanning my TV guide on DIRECTV and nothing lists until 11pm tonight? What the hell kind of LIVE action is this? If this event is happening live and we are all missing it somehow - It's all the fault of the POWERS THAT BE at this years World Series. Shame on you guys.

HARRAH'S / Rio in Las Vegas has had many years to work out the bugs with these events and yet - every year they drop the ball. This year - sending players AWAY (not enough tables/dealers) I dunno.. Time to hire some new people to run things. Is this event on TV live? DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW?

Phil Ivey and some other guys are playing in the BIGGEST poker game of their life - plus, most poker nuts LOVE Ivey. DO YOU KNOW HOW BIG THIS DAY IS TO POKER ESPN/RIO? If Ivey's able to pull this off and SNAG the win - It's huge for HIM/POKER/RIO/ESPN & the other 8 felt masters. (I'm a fan of Ivey but I put him out 4th or 5th due to the fact that players today's are a smarter bunch) Let me say it agina..This is huge for the RIO.. (HARRAH'S) It's huge for ESPN! It's huge for "ME" and countless other poker fans, and the players that are new to poker. Some of us have been in poker since JESUS won the main event... (Jesus - that's a long time ago folks) How can all of the BIG SHOTS mess this UP? Talk about DONKEYS. (send me an e-mail and explain please)

How are we ever going to get to the day when PEPSI pays me (whoops I mean US) to play poker on live television if all the REAL POKER fans can't even find the coverage for this, the biggest event in all of poker. (I want to break something! Someone give me something to snap)

My blog today is due to FRUSTRATION.. I'm frustrated.. My pals that watch poker are Frustrated. My dog Zowie - "The famous poker playing Doberman Pincher" is freaking frustrated. We wait all year for the FINAL TABLE of the WORLD SERIES OF POKER and you can't find out if it's LIVE or NOT (when it's on TV?).... Fans should be able to KNOW (yes or no) if there is coverage of **ANY** WSOP final table event within 2 CLICKS of a mouse.. Internet searches. (look into them WSOP)

Such a BIG deal is made of the NOVEMBER NINE.. and what happens.. they leave us hanging. This is enough to make even the most seasoned poker pro TILT.

I'm glad I'm still a year or two away from playing in the series and making the final table..or I'd be ripping all the people on national television for a job NOT WELL DONE. I would not want to do it - but cm-on.. Someone needs a kick in the ass. THIS IS TOO BIG A GAME.

All eyes want to be on Phil Ivey today as well as the other 8 skilled/lucky rounders. Lives are going to change today.. (Poker fans want to see it) Somebody playing in this years NOVEMBER NINE event is going to DISNEY LAND for crying out loud.. "for PLAYING POKER." THEY GET THAT BRACELET!!! Playing a game they/we ALL LOVE.

The WINNER of this event will go from WHO'S DAT? to ROCK STAR and we can't find it anywhere on the web. Anywhere on our DIRECTV. Ivey even made it on the cover of ESPN magazine this year for crying out loud. That's it - I'm calling VEGAS. Get Vegas on the line.

The main man in this event has PRIVATE JETS! (cough.. Maybe) We can't SELL THAT VEGAS?

OK - I'm going back to the wsop searches.. If I find information WAY down low in a search engine - I'll let everyone know via TWITTER.. (look me up - come debate pro poker with me "xfilespoker")

If you want to play ME.. "A regular Joe" kinda winning poker player - I play on FULL TILT POKER I DO NOT have a private jet. (yet) If you want to join our regular Joe's poker club sign up today (It's free) - X-Files poker forum We have a FREE roll coming up soon. No deposits required.

God - Please let me watch today's game.. (This was for a poker playing friend/writer named Kim) @kimshannon on TWITTER.

The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER

MrXfilespoker

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Forum @ Xfilespoker.com

8:51am - Just back from taking my little girl to school - what a crisp and sunny fall morning in the Poconos. Love it!

I just wanted to thank the members of our friendly poker forum - http://www.xfilespoker.net/phpbb for coming back after a long summer break. I'm working hard to make the site more and more fun each day - and promise BIG changes for the better are on the way. I'm in study HOURS a day and have found a new teacher that has me reading and reading.

I'm trying to network with poker players with integrity - players who LOVE and RESPECT the game. If you know any? - Can you get them on board... It's an OPEN forum that asks ANY and ALL topics poker and gambling.

In the coming months you can expect free rolls as the budget allows - as well as new games such as our NEW "HEADS UP" challenge - $2 games on Full Tilt. Working on building the brackets this month. I think in time - our free rolls will advance to some pretty big games. (Maybe this will help some of you build your poker roll) Get you IN the CASH!

We will starting TUESDAYS with TOM this winter.. Playing in select on line tourneys and ring games that we can later discuss on the forum.

Videos are in the works as well (For newbies) I love talking poker to players new to the game and watching them go from clueless to winning players. Learn proper poker from the start and join in the poker forum today! No such thing as a dumb question on xfilespoker.com

If you are NEW to us.. Please sign up today and get to posting poker chat. Bring friends!

I had about 3 hours sleep last night - so I'm off to crash and catch an hour of rest before work. Hope to see everyone on the xfilespoker.com poker forum soon!

Also! If you are on TWITTER - Please follow "xfilespoker" and start pumping us everyday! Twitter is really getting the word out there..

Have a great day all. Hope you flop nothing but quads all day long.

The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER

MrXfilespoker

Sunday, November 1, 2009

I'm not buying any of this ONLINE POKER "RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR BS.." & BUCK ROGERS "Quantum Photon Shufflers"

Today's poker topic kiddies is..

The dreaded "RNG" & a little thing called a "Quantum Photon Shuffler"

This Sunday morning.. I was reading my ALL IN poker mag with the sun shining in the window.. doing not much really, scanning my face-book, twitter (Xfilespoker) while doing my normal sunday thing.. slamming down my 2nd big gulp coffee. Then I got this message on FACE-BOOK - (My face-book gets the most action l8tly for some reason...)

So anyways the message was from an old friend on mine - Poker instructor "AL Spath" It was a link to a site called Virtue-poker - and since I respect Al - I had to go and take a look.

For some reason.. my gut tells me something seems way off here (Online poker today) - and hm mm how can I say this.. hm mmmmm..over SOLD maybe?.. I guess?

No dis-respect towards Al Spath.. (I suggest you learn poker from this man) He only suggested the link.

First off.. Let's break it all down and take a look the name of this site.. "Virtuepoker" - The name itself says - SAFE. BUILT by PEOPLE WHO CARE.

(Why the need to pump safety & Integrity with an on-line poker site?) Are poker players unhappy with the OLDER sites?

I notice.. when I open the Virtuepoker's site that it is a set-up of buttons (links and names of links) that I've seen recently on another new poker site by a different name.. It's very close if not an exact match.. (Forgive me for not knowing the name) but it WAS the same setup.... OK, no biggie.. - This is what we call a "NETWORK of computer poker sites" in the on-line poker world. Virtuepoker is a SKIN site - I got no problem with that.. But still, something is just not right?

Why is there a need for a lot of the newer names of poker sites to be bundled up and wrapped around a stamp of being SOLID.. SAFE.. Using words like INTEGRITY & VIRTUE? How many players did online poker rake over the coals the last 10 years? (I see a shift in marketing)

Should we expect the book to give us what the cover is selling???... Should we BELIEVE these pitches because of what we read on a few of the poker sites links or in a poker magazine? Why do these new sites have to OVER SELL these pitches all of a sudden? Was RNG'S an issue? (I sure do think so.. and so do many of my pals playing on-line.. There are quite a few that left on-line all together.. In a nut shell... I know with all my heart I'm not alone here)

I've been in sales many years - and I can tell you - there are many times when a salesman can OVERSELL-PUSH and lose customers that they ALREADY HAD in the bag. It's never a good thing to PUSH too hard. Better to just show the buffet and let the customer choose what they like. Quality sure does help as well.. DO WE REALLY HAVE THE BEST and SAFEST POKER WHEN WE PLAY ONLINE?

The big questions I'll ask you to answer today is..

DO WE (Should we) BELIEVE WHAT WE READ ABOUT A POKER WEB SITES SECURITY and RNG to be 100% true? If the site SAYS they have "INTEGRITY" - Should we just believe this as FACT? (I'd like to see time and time again what a poker site is doing to give me a fair shot at winning.. To date - I don't think any these sites prove to us that we are getting a REAL RANDOM SET OF CARDS.. I'm not sure from talking to some computer nuts that TRUE RANDOM by a computer can ever be had...

I've seen too many KEY hand situations where LONG SHOTS.. crush quality cards and even more.. QUALITY PLAY.. I've seen this with various accounts. Mine, friends.. People I've railed/teach etc.. etc..)

Enough of my babble..

Let's look into the Virtue poker sites "INTEGRITY" link - the pop down menu gives you an option to see what their RNG is all about .. (It's the best!) Is it? I dunno.. Maybe.. It would be fantastic to KNOW that we as players are getting TRUE RANDOM. WHY the really fancy word OVER SELL??.. If ever I've seen an oversell like the 20 year old salesman at the car lot.. This is it! OK - enough of my thoughts.. YOU MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND... This is how the powers that be explain their RNG.

Virtuepoker's Real Random Card Shuffler

We're convinced that our card shuffling system is the best one out there. In fact, we're so convinced that we built an on-line poker room around it.

Our "Quantum Photon Shuffler" is essentially an unpredictable, scientifically- proven quantum-mechanical process inside a special, impregnable, 'hack-proof' "black box".

All on-line casinos use an RNG, but not all RNG'S are the same. Of course, for security reasons, we can't tell you exactly how ours works; but we can give you an idea:

At the start of every game, the table asks for a freshly shuffled deck.
The Shuffler requests a clean set of random data from the RNG.
The RNG generates purely random data using the simple yet highly reliable and secure mathematical representation of the statistically random behavior of photons (particles of light) when fired through a half-mirror - or a mirror which allows only 50% of all light to be reflected while the other 50% passes through. As it is impossible to tell whether a photon will pass through or be reflected, the resulting data is a totally random string of ones and zeros, or binary code.
Just to be sure, the Shuffler monitors the output of the RNG for randomness.
If the data is clean, the string of code is translated into a freshly shuffled deck.
This process is repeated again on the shuffled deck - i.e. a double shuffle.
The cards are then sent along a secure, encrypted line to the table - a freshly double-shuffled deck.
Before each card is dealt out, a re-shuffle of the remaining cards takes place. This means that each dealt card has been randomly drawn from a freshly reshuffled deck, each and every time.
And so on, until the game is over and the next one begins. This process of continuous shuffling is a measure of added protection to ensure the highest level of randomness and security that can be obtained.

A unique system:

It is impossible for player actions to influence the cards.
It is impossible to predict future cards.
As all the shuffled data is sent along a secure, encrypted line, it is impossible to intercept card data
Hole cards are only visible to the players that hold them. Even our floor manager cannot see what you are holding until the game is finished.
The design is simple and therefore fail-safe.
The "black box" shuffler is itself set within a totally secure system.
- The only thing which can enter our shuffler is a secure, coded request for a freshly shuffled deck of cards.
- The only thing which can come out of our shuffler is a shuffled deck of cards.

Virtuepoker works hard to give you the peace of mind you deserve - so you can concentrate on your game. "

OK.. back to my thoughts.. (This next line I think isssss a MAJOR over sell)

"Quantum Photon Shuffler" is essentially an unpredictable, scientifically- proven quantum-mechanical process inside a special, impregnable, 'hack-proof' "black box".

All on-line casinos use an RNG, but not all RNG'S are the same. Of course, for security reasons, we can't tell you exactly how ours works; but we can give you an idea: "

Remember the WIZARD OF OZ? Something tells me there is a man behind the big emerald crystal wall... Pushing our buttons with BULL SHIT. a "Quantum Photon Shuffler" - BEEAAAMMMM ME UP SCOTTY! Somebody Quick.. get me a real deck of cards. Pennsylvania! Please RUSH and bring me LIVE casino poker.. "Quantum Photon Shuffler" - Like they say on Saturday night live.. REALLLLLlllllllyyyy? LOL!!!

"The "black box" shuffler is itself set within a totally secure system."

Yeah... there is a system in place alright.. and my gut tells me it's a very complex system of BALONEY. It's a good thing for us rounders however that these virtuous people have our backs.. so when our stack of CHIPS.. (REAL CASH) crashes and burns.. at least they have a "BLACK BOX" - We have a NEW system to blame.. GOD DARN "Quantum Photon Shuffler"

I'm not a fan of current RNG's or these NEW "Quantum Photon Shufflers" I'm told by many that the cards we all receive on-line are really random.. I'm simply NOT BUYING IT. If this is so... Why the OVER SELL? ("Quantum Photon Shuffler" - PPAAA LLLLLEEEAAASSS EEEEEE!) Why a need to sell like this at all??? Would not a product like a REAL DEAL POKER system from a "real deck of cards".. sell itself? I think if anyone ever comes up with a REAL DEAL POKER system - Ads won't even be needed - The news of a real deck of cards will spread like the H1N1 virus.. Killing all these older systems or at least - making them change the current SYSTEMS.

While I'm on a steam roller - I'll add.. It might be possible that some players are playing on ONE legit system while another is playing a not so legit/fair system. (we have to at least ask these questions) Don't be mindless on-line poker zombies.

Integrity - That's a major word. We would expect quality cards to hold up and win even after the turn and river card. At least the majority of the time..

Hell - The RNG pitch is so good at Virtuepoker that even I might have to try this (new) site.. WAITE.. HOLD ON... EXCEPT ONE THING (I have this feeling I'm being oversold and possibly even ripped off by yet another used car lot salesman) I'd like to know WHY a site like this felt the need to BUILD a new site around this new magic black box? What was wrong with the RNG's that have been out there all these years? Huh? ANYBODY?

You can disagree with me.. but at least THINK ABOUT ALL THIS..

Of course poker players - I could be wrong... but I really doubt it.

The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER

MrXfilespoker