Tag: Site News

The New MtDewVirus

Nick Momrik5 Comments

Here it is. The new and hopefully improved mtdewvirus.com.

I started on this design over a year ago and hadn’t touched it in over a year until Friday night. I put a lot of hours into it over the weekend and a few more tonight fixing errors after updating the live site. Setting up a test environment locally is great, but it’s hard to test for everything.

As of right now, most things should be working. If something looks out of place or funky, leave a comment on this post.

I plan to write up some posts on how I did a few things around the site and to point out some things. If you’d like to know how I implemented a particular feature, ask in the comments.

What do you think of the new layout and design?

What Is Poker?

Nick Momrik2 Comments

Where have I been you ask? Shit…who am I asking? Does anyone even visit this “poker” blog anymore?

I haven’t written here in 5 or 6 months. I’ve played poker barely more than that. In mid-January on a flight back from San Francisco, I had a night long layover in Las Vegas. Hit up the MGM and about $180 playing $3/6 hold’em. It was fun and I wish I’d make time to do it a little more often. I made a few rookie mistakes, but that’s bound to happen when you haven’t played poker in months. I flopped a set of queens, turned a full house, and rivered quads all on the same hand. I was called all the way by two players, even after I check-raised the flop. They even called out my hand after the check-raise, but had to call me down. I was taking their money, so I was happy.

I don’t have money at any online poker sites and without checking my records, I’d bet I haven’t played a single hand of online poker in over 6 months. I still have a couple of hundred stuck in Neteller waiting for them to get their shit together and let US players withdraw. The online poker legislation or whatever you want to call it took away my interest in playing for the most part. I still like to play, but I’m making more productive use of the time I used to spend online playing poker.

I’ll still make posts here from time to time, but I doubt you’ll ever see the posting frequency of a year or two ago.

Until next time…head on over to Card Tricks and give me some suggestions!

Poker Chip Tricks Site Has Been Sold

Nick Momrik4 Comments

Any regular visitors to Poker Chip Tricks probably noticed some changes that started over a month ago. Recently those changes became even more apparent as all of the Google ads were completely removed and other cosmetic changes were made.

Why all of the changes?

I’ve sold the site and no longer own any of the domains or content. I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse and felt the time was right to get rid of the site. I’ve agreed not to come out and say exactly who bought it, but I’m very confident they’ll do a great job with the site. In the end, I think both parties received a great deal. The whole deal ended up taking nearly 4 months, which was about 2 months too long due to the lawyers battling back and forth. I learned a lot during the process and will be ready if I’m lucky enough to sell another site in the future.

I want to thank everyone who linked to pokerchiptricks.com at one time or another, which helped me get the site all the way to #1 on Google when searching for “poker chip tricks” and in the top 10 for “poker chips.”

If you’d like to help with my next site, you can link to http://docardtricks.com/ with the words “Card Tricks” as the link text. I haven’t done much with the site since it was launched, but I have a few new tricks planned which I hope to put out there soon.