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Σάββατο, 03 Ιανουάριος 2009 13:23 |
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The 12th edition of the Carnival of Gambling is published today and 11 new articles discuss online poker, sports betting and betting odds. As always, if you have a blog and have been an active blogger, why don't you send one of your popular blog posts to make it in the following edition of the blog carnival of gambling, here in Jimmakos.com.
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Δευτέρα, 01 Δεκέμβριος 2008 16:07 |
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The 11th edition of the Carnival of Gambling is published today and 14 new articles talk about NFL, Holdem poker, luck, political betting and an interview of the latest WSOP champion, Peter Eastgate. As always, if you have a blog and have been an active blogger, why don't you send one of your popular blog posts to make it in the following edition of the carnival of gambling, here in Jimmakos.com.
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Σάββατο, 01 Νοέμβριος 2008 00:00 |
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The 10th edition of Carnival of Gambling presents articles about learning online poker, how to become a pro poker player, new poker tournaments' ideas, NHL suggested bets, trip reports and sports exercises. There is also an article describing how credit card numbers are created and generated!
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Τετάρτη, 22 Οκτώβριος 2008 20:25 |
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I received an email today by a journalist from a very well known Greek newspaper which made me wonder how popular political betting is. The 2008 US presidential election is in 2 weeks and online betting on Obama or McCain has exceeded 10 million euros just in the Betfair markets. I guess people are not only interested in who the next US President will be but also betting on their own political prediction.
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Πέμπτη, 09 Οκτώβριος 2008 15:56 |
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Από τότε που άλλαξα εταιρία hosting για το sports blog μου από την GoDaddy στην HostGator, η βελτίωση της ταχύτητας του χρόνου φόρτωσης των σελίδων είναι σημαντική. Αν και η GoDaddy είναι ο καλύτερος καταχωρητής ιστοσελίδων online και δε θα σκεφτόμουν ποτέ να κατοχυρώσω το όνομα κάποιου blog ή site μου σε άλλη εταιρία, τα προγράμματα φιλοξενίας ιστοσελίδων του HostGator είναι καλύτερα και γενικά θεωρείται μία από τις καλύτερες εταιρίες φιλοξενίας σελίδων. Έτσι, ενώ προτείνω την GoDaddy για domain registration, συστήνω την HostGator για hosting.
Έχω καταχωρήσει πάνω από 10 ονόματα ιστοχώρων με τη βοήθεια του GoDaddy και χρησιμοποίησα μερικά από τα προγράμματά τους για φιλοξενία για αρκετά χρόνια παράλληλα με διαφημιστικά parking hosting plans. Τα τελευταία μάλλον ήταν χαμένα λεφτά αφού μερικές βδομάδες μετά την αγορά τους (ετήσιο συμβόλαιο), ανακάλυψα τα δωρεάν parking hosting που υπάρχουν στο ίντερνετ, τα οποία θεωρούνται καλύτερα. Όπως και να έχει, το hosting που είχα για τα sites μου ήταν πολύ καλό και δεν είχα παράπονο. Επίσης δεν είχα κανένα ενδιαφέρον για δωρεάν hosting company, αφού δε θα είχα τον έλεγχο του site, θα ήμουν υποχρεωμένος να έχω συγκεκριμένες διαφημίσεις στο blog μου και εκτός των άλλων, ήθελα να δείχνει πιο επαγγελματικό.
 Από ένα σημείο και μετά όμως, και καθώς το κύριο blog μου (το jimmakos.com δηλαδή) άρχισε να βαραίνει με περισσότερες σελίδες, μετατροπή από html σε php με τη βοήθεια του Joomla και γενικά μεγαλύτερη επισκεψιμότητα, διαπίστωσα μια σχετική καθυστέρηση στη φόρτωση των σελίδων, ιδιαίτερα της αρχικής. Χαρακτηριστικό είναι ότι για να ξεκινήσει να φορτώνει την αρχική σελίδα ο Mozilla (ή ο Explorer) χρειάζονταν 20 περίπου δευτερόλεπτα για να περάσει το στάδιο του «Website found, waiting for reply). Κι όταν παρόμοια κατάσταση παρατήρησα και σε άλλο site μου, ξεκίνησα να ψάχνω για εναλλακτική για το hosting, παρόλο που το διετές συμβόλαιο ήθελε ακόμα 10 μήνες για να λήξει και ήταν ήδη πληρωμένο.
2.5 μήνες μετά την μεταφορά του domain στην HostGator, μπορώ να πω ότι είμαι πολύ ευχαριστημένος. Χωρίς να αλλάξω κάτι σημαντικό κατά τη μεταφορά, η φόρτωση των αρχικών σελίδων επιταχύνθηκε κατά μεγάλο βαθμό. Γενικά, από όσο διάβασα στο ίντερνετ από άλλους χρήστες και webmasters, ένας πολύ καλός συνδυασμός είναι να κάνουμε domain registration με GoDaddy και web hosting με την HostGator.
Κάπου εδώ θα ήθελα να πω και 2 κουβέντες αναφορικά με το ελληνικό domain registration και hosting. Εάν ενδιαφέρεστε για κατοχύρωση ονόματος με πρόθεμα «.gr», τότε φυσικά δεν υπάρχει εναλλακτική από τους ελληνικούς registrars. Εάν όμως αναζητάτε .com διεύθυνση, τότε δε βρίσκω το λόγο να μην πάτε στο εξωτερικό και ειδικότερα στην GoDaddy αφού θα σας βγει σχεδόν μισή τιμή σε σχέση με τις ελληνικές τιμές.
Κι όσον αφορά το hosting, το κέρδος είναι πολύ μεγαλύτερο. Αφορμή για αυτό το άρθρο στάθηκε πρόσφατη συζήτηση με φίλο επιχειρηματία, ο οποίος εμπιστεύεται γνωστές ελληνικές εταιρίες για hosting. Η διαφορά τιμής μεταξύ ελληνικού hosting company και ξένου είναι σημαντική κι αν αυτή δεν είναι αρκετή για να σας κάνει να ψάξετε για λύσεις στο εξωτερικό, αρκεί να συγκρίνετε τι παίρνετε με αυτά τα χρήματα στην μία και στην άλλη περίπτωση. Απλά να αναφέρω ότι αυτή τη στιγμή με $8 το μήνα για hosting το jimmakos.com έχω στη διάθεσή μου 1000GB bandwidth και άπειρο αποθηκευτικό χώρο!
 
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Τετάρτη, 01 Οκτώβριος 2008 16:15 |
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The October edition of Carnival of Gambling is published today in my sports blog! I didn't receive many articles this time but still the content linked from this post is quite interesting. Ross discusses the Big Brother Show, Michael talks about Football Card Values, Poker Anon presents a poker strategy for beginners, Malcolm is shooting for big poker tournaments, Dave comments on the return of Rick Neuheisel and Michael from Online Casino Blog has sent 6 articles about casinos and poker.
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Τρίτη, 30 Σεπτέμβριος 2008 10:36 |
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Apparently the search engine optimization I've been doing lately has led to an increase of my sports blog's page rank from 3 to 4 today! Although I didn't buy any text links from top search engine ranking websites with higher ranking, the link exchange with gambling sites and blogs of similar pagerank certainly helped my sports blog. Additionally, my Alexa link popularity increased while the traffic rank seems steady below 400,000. I managed to improve my page rank after studying a lot about search engine rankings, keywords, seo tools and reciprocal link exchange. What does this increase of my page rank mean though?
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Δευτέρα, 01 Σεπτέμβριος 2008 07:33 |
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Blog Carnival of Gambling is back and this month I received articles about Bodog seizure, the martingale system, women playing poker, handicapping systems, betting on... pushups (!!), EPT 5 Preview, poker learning, college football and 2008 Olympic games.
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Δευτέρα, 18 Αύγουστος 2008 16:48 |
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SEF links help your blog move up in Google search results, seem nice to your readers' eyes and make a point about the subject of your blog post. So they are important enough to make me wonder today whether I should change some core elements of my blog or not. And by that I mean the names of sections and categories and having them appear into the URL link. Up to now I have allowed only the categories to be included in the links but I am seriously considering to modify the whole link structure of my blog and get probably a little more traffic. Should I bother or is it really not worth it?
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Παρασκευή, 01 Αύγουστος 2008 07:15 |
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The last edition of Carnival of Gambling was back in March. 5 months later the seventh edition is getting published today, as I had many submissions and requests. This time the posters talk about rules of investing, financial security, simple trading systems, poker success and poker freerolls, UIGEA, gambling advice, bingo and chess! Check it out and don't forget to submit your own blog's posts for the next month's Carnival of Gambling, here in Jimmakos.com.
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Παρασκευή, 25 Ιούλιος 2008 12:53 |
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 Blog hosting is a serious issue regarding a blog’s traffic. A fast and reliable server is preferred so that the visitors surf your blog comfortably. Lately my gambling blog had trouble concerning the loading speeds and I decided to change its servers and also upgrade from Joomla 1.0.15 to the new Joomla 1.5.4. So, I moved the blog and changed my hosting company. It sure wasn’t that easy and since it was my first time of moving a website I came across some difficulties. However the result is very promising.
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Σάββατο, 01 Μάρτιος 2008 03:17 |
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February's edition of Carnival of Gambling is out and contains 26 submitted articles. Useful information is given regarding making money from fantasy football, diet tips and dating success for gamblers and investors, mortgage and loans advice, poker strategy, forex trading, bankroll management and credit cards' tips.
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Παρασκευή, 01 Φεβρουάριος 2008 02:05 |
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Welcome to the Blog Carnival of Gambling, Vol.5!
23 new articles are included in this month's edition and I'd like to welcome the new authors! This edition speaks about financial tips, poker bankroll and slowplaying tactic, investments, sports betting, addictions and a couple of predictions, picks and tips. There is also the well known travel writing contest which was previously included in another edition of the carnival.
Take a look inside!
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Πέμπτη, 03 Ιανουάριος 2008 01:34 |
Welcome to the January 2, 2008 edition of carnival of gambling.
There were 29 articles submitted for this edition, although the vast majority of them come from the same author. Still they provide useful information and advice for anyone seeking for it. Take a look inside the Carnival of Gambling Volume 4!
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Σάββατο, 01 Δεκέμβριος 2007 01:13 |
Welcome to the December 1, 2007 edition of carnival of gambling.
Sagar presents Travelhacker: Top 25 Ultimate Gamer Vacations posted at Travelhacker.
Logan Flatt, CFA presents "Growth Investing" Nothing More Than Rank Speculation posted at PowerWealth.com, saying, "Thanks to decades of promulgation by the financial services industry, it is now common for many people not unlike Mr. Authers to mistakenly use the terms “value” and “growth” to describe two contrasting styles of investing. However, there are not two styles of investing. Instead, there is investing and there is speculation."
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Me Gamble? No Dice! posted at Mad Kane's Humor Blog.
Jason Elder presents Chapter 7 Bankruptcy - 5 Good Reasons To File Bankruptcy posted at A Bankruptcy Lawyer's Blog, saying, "Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a popular form of bankruptcy in the United States. For some, it is the last resort of those who have experienced a sudden job loss or a major medical issue that they had no control over. Through bankruptcy liquidation filed under this chapter the debtor can get a fresh financial start by receiving a discharge of all debts."
Allen Taylor presents Planning Retirement Stock - What You Need To Know To Make A Fortune With Your Investing posted at Investing World Today, saying, "When it comes to planning retirement, stock is very important helping you achieve your retirement goals. The stock market is one of the main avenues of revenue for many investors today, and it can be a great source of revenue for you. Combined with real state, the stock market is probably one of the most famous investment vehicles there is today."
Thomas Humes presents Financial Freedom - Learn How to Always Be Ahead of the Game posted at Wealth Building World, saying, "The following are my top tips and recommendation for anyone seeking to put an end to the rat race and achieve financial freedom."
Steve Faber presents - Ways to Waste Money posted at DebtBlog.
pokerpenguin presents Tripping on my poker blind spot posted at Poker Penguin, saying, "Getting off a good hand when someone else has hit a set, it's a hard thing to do, especially when you're deep stacked and feel invincible... but, it's a valuable lesson from the trenches."
Eb Netr presents Momma Goes to the Dogs posted at Greyhound Info, saying, "This is a personal story about dog racing."
KCLau presents What’s Your Time Worth? posted at KCLau's Money Tips, saying, "Value of money is always tied to time element. If you work, you need to understand the basic concept that you’re trading your time for money. Time is a nonrenewable resource, but money? You will be able to make much more money if you understand the relationship between time and money. That’s why one of the fundamental subjects of financial planning is “Time Value of Money”."
Dan-O presents How to Make Real Life Money in the Second Life Virtual World posted at Danogo.com - Discover. Inspiring . Media, saying, "People are making millions of real dollars in the virtual real estate business. Are you missing out on the next Web gold rush?"
Ryan Russell presents Go “Outside The Box” for Great Holiday Gifts posted at My Money Thinks, saying, "For these people (and anyone else), a little creativity and imagination will go a long way when shopping for holiday gifts"
Bentley Humphreys presents How to Make Money Off Interest Free Credit Card Offers posted at Bentley Humphreys, saying, "Gambling with debt -- there are obviously a countless number of ways to invest money these days, however one is so fascinating we decided to test it out here at boozwatt.com. It’s called credit card arbitrage. It involves utilizing funds garnered from no interest credit card offers, and investing the money in various traditional avenues. Here’s how it works...."
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Πέμπτη, 01 Νοέμβριος 2007 05:20 |
Welcome to the November 1, 2007 edition of carnival of gambling.
Allen Taylor presents Doubling Stocks With A Small Bankroll posted at Investing World Today,
saying, "Successful traders know that you should never risk more than a
small fraction, like maybe 5%, of your bankroll at any given time. When
I say risk only 5% Im not suggesting you only spend 5% of your bankroll
on shares, but rather that, for a losing trade, you exit the trade when
your loss would only represent 5% of your bankroll." An excellent
article about investing in stock market and managing your bankroll.
After all, money management is almost everything. You should definately
take a look at this one, if you are considering entering the market
soon.
Henri Junttila presents 72 Really Simple Poker Tips I've Learned posted at the poker how to,
saying, "An article that took me several hours to write, it started out
as a top 10 list but I kept coming up with things to add. Enjoy!". A
very good list of suggestions and I have to agree on all of them. There
are also some very good links you will certainly find extremely useful
if you are into poker.
Michael@TSM presents Fall TSM Travel Writing Contest: Win $125! posted at Traveling Stories Magazine.
This is a contest about writing stories and experiences from travels
and adventures. Worth a look and if you like sharing your thoughts and
wisdom, you can even make $125 for doing it! But hurry, the deadline
for submission is November 15.
Scott Fusco presents Poker expectation - Personal Development Coaching | Scott Fusco . net posted at Personal development coaching | Scott Fusco . net,
saying, "This article describes in really simple terms what the
gambling concept of expectation is all about and how you can apply it
in your life in general." A nice read about the mathematical
expectation and making decisions with positive value.
Ken Nubo presents The poker life | Ken Nubo dot Com posted at Ken Nubo, PUA extraordinaire and ranting buddhist.. A word of advice there, don't do that!
Moneywalks presents A night in Atlantic City posted at moneywalks. An interesting personal experience from one of the most famous gambling areas in the world.
Jason Elder presents Personal Loans With Bankruptcy posted at A Bankruptcy Lawyer's Blog, saying, "Here I discuss a few things you may not know when dismissing personal loans in your bankruptcy". A really helpful advice on how to deal with your personal loans if you are having trouble.
Aaron Wakling presents Credit Checks - What They Are And What You Need To Know posted at The Credit & Credit Card Blog, saying, "Credit checks involve sensitive personal data. Therefore, many people are concerned about precisely who they’ve entrusted with their records. Fortunately, the Fair Credit Reporting Act has established unambiguous rules governing credit checks." Why and when to share or not your personal credit history with various financial institutions.
Eric Hudin presents Life Insurance and Estate Plans - Protecting Your Assets from Estate Taxes posted at My Estate Planning Career Blog, saying, "Estates and estate plans have a mystique all of their own to the average observer. It is certainly a complex world of tax rules and regulations where inherited assets are taxed upon death. How might this affect you and the estate assets you now possess?" Well, that says it all! Protect your assets before it's too late.
Tim Ramsey presents 5 Ways to Try and Reduce Your Debts and Outgoings posted at My Debt Relief Blog, saying, "Anyone that has a high level of debt or a number of creditors to pay off each month will know how stressful and difficult financial management can be. However, for those crippling themselves with monthly outgoing as a result of high debt levels there are some steps that could help to reduce the amount that you have to pay out each month, as well as reducing overall interest paid on your debts." A well written article which makes good points on how to control your debts and expenditures.
Eric Stanley presents Three Rules for Financial Freedom posted at Personal Finance Blog Articles, saying, "In a world of debts and overspendings, there are three simple and common sense rules that anybody can and should follow in order to cope with money. For applying them, you will only need a pencil, a piece of paper and 5 to 10 minutes every month." It really is simple as that, after all "believe it or not, the World Bank uses the same rules for expenditure management".
Thomas Humes presents To Be A Millionaire posted at Wealth Building World, saying, "Most everyone will make a million dollars within their lifetime. For those making $50,000 a year it will take 20 years. For others it can take 2 years. So what does it take to be a millionaire? Becoming a millionaire is often times an added result of reaching a goal that was not based on a money." Everyone wants to be a millionaire, sure. If you haven't been one yet, here is the first step you should take.
Save Money presents The DOLP Snowball method to pay off Credit Cards posted at How I Save Money.net. I wasn't familiar with this method, and if you aren't also, you might perhaps pay a visit to this site.
Rickey Henderson presents Rickey's Vegas Odyssey posted at Riding with Rickey, saying, "An article on my recent trip to Vegas and the football game I bet on. Enjoy--it's funny stuff." A good article with lots of photos.
Sam presents Gambling on Sports. What Are the Odds? Clear, Quick and Easy Info posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, "When you gamble on sports, you stake your money on the bounce of the ball. Having some money in play makes any game more interesting. It gives the fan a personal stake in the outcome of the contest." Every gambling term you have heard is explained here, and every possible kind of bet is also described thoroughly.
Kenneth presents Gambling Games: Can investors learn anything useful? Definitely… | InvestorBlogger posted at InvestorBlogger, saying, "one of my gambling stories!". Visiting a casino in Macao should definately be an experience. Some nice links and information in this article describing the basic stuff in the gambling world.
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Δευτέρα, 01 Οκτώβριος 2007 05:09 |
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Welcome to the October 1, 2007 edition of carnival of gambling.
This is the first volume of Jimmakos Blog Carnival and there were 11 articles submitted.
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Παρασκευή, 14 Σεπτέμβριος 2007 03:27 |
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 So, you
want to design or already have a gambling blog. You post your experiences in
sports betting, trading, online poker, casino games, anything that's gambling
really. Friends and relatives don't understand your passion and you need to get
in touch with people that share the same passion. Great, how do you find them
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Τετάρτη, 12 Σεπτέμβριος 2007 07:57 |
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On 1st of October 2007, the first edition of Jimmakos.com Blog Carnival will be out! Submit your content now!
But, wait a minute. What is a Blog Carnival?
From BlogCarnival.com:
"A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every monday, or on the first of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors opinions or remarks.
There is so much stuff in the blog-o-sphere, just finding interesting stuff is hard. If there is a carnival for a topic you are interested in, following that carnival is a great way to learn what bloggers are saying about that topic. If you are blogging on that topic, the carnival is the place to share your work with like-minded bloggers."
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Guest Blogging Available Now! Ends 31 August!
Guest blogging is quite popular these days and my Sports Blog welcomes any bloggers who want to add their own posts here. If you haven’t heard of guest blogging before or if you hesitate to take part of this exciting feature, read a couple of the following links:
5 Reasons to Start Guest Blogging Today
How Guest Blogging can Help You and Your Blog
How to be a Good Guest Blogger
5 Guidelines to Guest Blogging
Instructions to become a Guest Blogger at Jimmakos.com:
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