I just added a brand new feature to love and situs judi slot online casino war that I’m excited about — bestseller lists!
In a previous post, I mentioned the popularity of some poker books on Amazon.com. To compile that list, I had to go through the books on Amazon by hand and look up their Sales Ranks.
After checking out Amazon Web Services I decided that it would be pretty cool to show a regularly updated list of these bestsellers. I started with Incutio’s very elegant PHP integration. Feature creep set in and I added a little database on this site to track movement of the books, as well as tracking an approximation of how many books are sold each week. So, I present to you:
Poker Bestsellers
Blackjack Bestsellers
Vegas Bestsellers
Gambling Bestsellers
If you see any books that should be on this list, please let me know. For instance, for some reason Doyle Brunson’s Super System doesn’t appear in an Amazon search for “Poker” (!) so I added it manually. Also if you’d like to see bestseller lists for anything else let me know too!
These lists are now linked from the left sidebar of the site too.
brag
If you’ve ever wanted to try out 3-card brag, the English poker-like game depicted in “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, you can download a version here (via Little Teapot). There’s a good set of Brag rules here. I don’t care much for the game compared to poker, but some people get into it.
binion’s convicted killers get new trial
Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish, convicted in 2000 for the murder of Binion heir Ted Binion, got their convictions overturned this week when the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the original judge committed errors that unfairly biased the jury. There will be a retrial.
The justices also took issue with the way the testimony of attorney James Brown was presented to jurors. In an eve-of-death phone call, Binion told Brown of his youthful girlfriend, “Take Sandy out of the will if she doesn’t kill me tonight. If I’m dead you’ll know what happened.”
The justices said Bonaventure should have instructed jurors to consider statements only as evidence of Binion’s state of mind, not as fact. “The prejudicial impact was great: The statement strongly implied Murphy killed Binion,” the justices wrote.
Of course it does! I’m not sure how else to take that statement. A judge telling me not to take that statement as fact wouldn’t really change my opinion on that, either.
40,000 feet below binion’s
Ken Goldstein has a good article about low-rolling it up in Vegas during the World Series of Poker.
For those players who can’t afford the big-ticket buy-ins there are nightly 11:00 p.m. $225 no-limit Hold ‘Em “consolation” events as well as smaller, one-table “satellite” tournaments to raise bucks for the big ones.
And then there was us.