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What makes poker a great game? 23 Mar 2013 | 02:17 pm
I recently did a talk at the NYU Game Center cleverly entitled “What Makes Poker So Awesome?” (Old school 2p2per ilya wrote up a nice blog post about it here.) The talk was originally intended for gam...
2p2 Hacked–Do This Stuff Immediately 27 Apr 2012 | 08:42 am
The Two Plus Two Forums have been hacked, and the forums have been taken down by the admins to prevent further damage. The hacker has gained access to a list of usernames, e-mails, hashed passwords, a...
Choosing a Decent Password 31 Mar 2012 | 10:36 am
The 2+2 forums are dealing with some bad guys who are trying to brute force people’s passwords. In other words, some guy somewhere is running a computer program that probably has a very long dictionar...
Passwords Security 15 Mar 2012 | 06:14 am
A poster on 2p2 recently exposed a major security vulnerability on Lock Poker. The poster found that his password was included in plaintext in the source code of Lock’s Casino app. I’m not particularl...
The Benford’s Law Hustle™ 10 Mar 2012 | 01:17 pm
Hi, poker blog readers! I was going to post this on my new nerd blog, and maybe I’ll do that as well. But, I figured that poker players might like this, even if it’s not strictly related to poker. Bas...
New Blog 4 Jan 2012 | 10:53 am
Hi blog readers. I just started another one of these things. It’s called Solipsist’s Log, and it’s conveniently located at http://www.solipsistslog.com. I’ll write about non-poker stuff that interests...
The Vouching System Sucks 10 Aug 2011 | 09:01 am
The vouching system, which the poker community uses to conduct almost all of its business, is ripe for scamming. I made a post about this once before, but it was a bit schizophrenic and poorly argued....
New Independent Poker News Site, Subject: Poker 24 May 2011 | 03:33 am
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Thomas Bakker and I have started our own independent poker news site, Subject: Poker. You can read our launch announcement for more detail, but I’ll provide a m...
So What’s Up with This Falling Sky? 16 Apr 2011 | 12:08 pm
I assume that if you’re a reader of my blog, you probably know that the shit has just abruptly hit the fan. (If not, just hop on your favorite poker forum or media outlet or twitter or whatever, and s...
The Cheater Challenge 5 Apr 2011 | 05:44 am
(I’m going to leave names out of this post because I think it applies to a lot of people, many of whom I don’t know about. Obviously I have some specific people in mind, though.) I’ve had a lot of … ...