Nat Arem's Blog

I need some MTT hand histories from FTP, Party, Stars and UB. I don’t care what the stakes are — it just has to be a real money hold ‘em (NL, PL or L) MTT from one of those sites. I’d appreciate whatever you have to send, although I don’t need more than a few for each site (ie, if you want to send 5, try to do 5 from as many sites as possible instead of 5 from the same site). You can email them to natarem@gmail.com. I need them for a hand history replayer that I’m working on.

Thanks a lot for any help.

PS – I have all of the cash game hand histories that I need, so please don’t send those.

I don’t study in the library so I wasn’t around to see this, but I just got this email from Emory Law administration (they sent it to the whole school). I would have loved to see a bunch of stressed out law school students studying for finals watching this guy.

Last night a white male, approximately 40, was disruptive in the library. He was wearing a Jesus t-shirt, a black leather jacket, black cowboy hat with the word “perfect” in silver. We are told he claimed to be the attorney general of the United States.

If you see him in the library or in Gambrell, please notify Operations or Security, or the staff at the Circulaton Desk in the library who will call the appropriate people. Thank you — Dean Brokaw

Katherine Brokaw, J.D.
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Director of Academic Assistance
Emory University School of Law

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I just moved my blog to a new and faster server. Sorry for the downtime, but I plan on bringing over all over my old entries and the new blog will be better than ever.

I needed the extra speed and bandwidth for all the pictures I plan on putting up from the PCA.

Thanks,

Nat

EDIT: All of the comments and pictures are still on the old server. The old blog is technically still being hosted at pokerdbblog.com, but I will delete it once everything has been moved.

EDIT AGAIN: Comments have been moved. The only comment to this post had to be removed to do that. Sorry!

EDIT AGAIN: I deleted the blog at pokerdbblog.com because I moved everything over.

This came out a few days ago, but Bluff sent out a press release regarding the deal:

Yahoo! Finance Press Release

First, I’ll explain how it came about. In a simple enough post on P5s, a Bluff staffer (Chris) asked me to come into the Bluff offices to talk about nothing specific (see http://www.pocketfives.com/6781C2E8-611D-49C4-BEC0-735CF42DC136.aspx). I went in there pretty soon after and we basically just talked for awhile about a bunch of stuff — how I got started in the business, what some of our numbers were, what our plans were, stuff about Bluff, etc. We discussed the idea of a partnership of some kind a few times. I got a call a few days later and they basically informed me that they’d like to buy the site. I went back to the offices and we spent about 8 hours hammering out the backbone of the deal. From that point on we’ve been dealing with a lot of small details to make sure that the db will operate smoothly in Bluff’s hands. This announcement is a few months in the making and I’ve been excited to talk about it for awhile now.

So, in terms of where the db is headed, we have big plans. Part of the deal is that I am going to be helping Bluff as a consultant on a major design of the site. I have tons and tons of ideas that never got implemented over the last year — we will be putting them into the next version of the site. I am also going to keep helping Bluff to run it beyond the interface design.

A lot of subscribers are probably wondering what’s going to happen to the advanced db. I’m happy to say that that advanced db will remain almost fully intact — the only concession that we needed to make was a few changes on the PokerStars side — for example, players will have the ability to opt-out. While people might not be happy with all of the changes, I assure you it was the only way for us to continue with the PokerStars extended db. They were considering shutting us down and this was the only way to ensure the long-term health of the site. In other words, the advanced db of the past for PokerStars could not have continued. It simply became too big and too many people knew about it, including the whole PokerStars team. We handled their objections and we’ve got a plan for how to continue the advanced db in a way that our users will still find useful while also allowing the site to continue to collect results. The system for PokerStars is complicated, so I will make a whole different post with that info. The other sites, as far as I know, will continue in their current form in the extended db. The good news is that the whole extended db is getting a huge overhaul and it will be WAY better than anything you’ve seen from us so far.

Also, I’m sure a lot of people are wondering about the terms. As it’s a private deal, I don’t want to publicly release any numbers. I will say that it’s a part cash/part equity deal. I am now a part-owner of Bluff. I should also say that I’m very happy with the deal and I expect that Bluff is as well.

I will do my best to answer any other questions you might have.

Thanks,

Nat

Bluff Forum post here

And the P5s post…

I will write a more detailed entry later today.