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The position with which you play is a very important, and it is very important for a beginner to be aware of this game concept. If you are the first or the last poker player to talk, it makes a huge difference. In fact, when you talk first, it is difficult to know how many players [...]

As a member of the Poker Player’s Alliance I am concerned with the future of ‘online poker’ and with Congress returning to session the future of ‘online poker’ hangs in the balance.  The bill to watch in the upcoming months is ‘Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act’, which would allow US [...]

Filed under: Tesla Motors About a month ago we heard that Martin Eberhard had decided to drop his defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla Motors. Now comes word that Eberhard and the defendants have actually reached a settlement. Given the ruling of the judge in the case that the suit [...]

Filed under: Fisker Fisker Karma – Click above for high-res image gallery Anyone that has watched either the auto industry or technology startups knows how hard it is to achieve profitability. Blend the two together and you more often than not have a recipe for financial disaster. We’ve seen far more aspiring EV makers go [...]

Filed under: Solar, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily, USA Listen to the messages coming out of Washington, D.C. and you’d think we’re spending all our available money on clean and green technologies, things like algae biofuels, cleaner cars and advanced batteries. Turns out, this isn’t remotely true. According to a new study that reviewed fossil [...]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, On Two Wheels, Green Daily Blindspot Electric Cycles – Click above for image gallery There’s so much that’s cool about how Blindspot Cycles created the “Drag N’ Bag” motorcycle in the picture above, it’s hard to know where to start. Is it that Blindspot Cycles’ owner Chris Ravana gets his [...]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan 2010 Nissan Leaf EV – Click above for high-res image gallery Aside from the issue of limited range, the biggest problem with electric vehicles in the near term is expected to be cost. Mitsubishi has already announced that the starting price for its diminutive iMiEV in Japan will be approximately $47,000 [...]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, Frankfurt Motor Show, Germany Before the Frankfurt Motor Show brought us the latest models and concepts from automakers, it was opened by German Chancelor Angela Merkel. The inauguration speech by the Chancellor included describing her country’s support for electric vehicles: Germany expects that there will be up to seven [...]

Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota Not long ago, we wondered just how steep the hill of customer acceptance is for a new technology like the Volt is. The question was how well the Chevy Volt and the Voltec powertrain could compete with the established Prius brand? Toyota, for its part, apparently thinks it’s worth spreading the [...]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, GM, Toyota 2011 Chevy Volt – Click above for high-res image gallery GM has not been secretive about how important gas prices in late 2010 will be on the price of the Chevy Volt. During a webchat this week, GM vice chairman Bob Lutz said again that higher gas prices [...]