Dutch Boyd Likes You

I was just cruising around on some poker sites and came across what I thought was a huge level on wsopjournal.com. Apparently, somewhat well-known pro poker player Ron Fanelli, nicknamed “MadYank” in the poker world, is sitting in a Thai prison for brutally murdering a Bangkok hooker. The way the article was written really made me think the whole thing was a level… some sort of sick joke. Because it really sounded way too much like an old Saturday Night Live skit that was making fun of the “What Happens in Vegas” commercials, replacing the tagline with “Only Bangkok”. Does this really happen so much out there that it’s cliche?!?

Sick sad world…

Saturday Night Live is pretty funny, though. When I was looking for these video clips I came across a couple old funny ones that I had forgotten about that had me rolling. This Natalie Portman rap is just too funny.

When Andy Sandberg comes out dressed as a viking… I don’t know why he cracks me up so much but he does. Steals every scene. I’ve been laughing hard at him since Awesometown.

Michele has been getting back into stamp collecting and so this last weekend I decided I needed a new hobby too… so I signed up for a Magic the Gathering Online account. It’s kind of cool, except it looks like it could be a really big money hole. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise if people go off on this game more than poker! There’s got to be some MTG whales out there just dumping event ticket after event ticket, and cracking booster after booster.

So far, I haven’t really spent anything… just the $9.99 to signup. And for that I got about $4 worth of virtual cards to play around with. I really want play some of these M11 drafts… but so far haven’t really been able to convince Michele that it’s a good idea to dump money on virtual cards.

Anyway, if you are a closet M:TGO player, hit me up on there. I got really creative with my username… it’s DutchBoyd. Maybe you could give me some tips… or free cards .

Hey all… selling some poker domains that have either just expired or will expire this month. Twenty bucks gets you any of the poker domains on this list and will include one year of renewal. If you want to pick any of these up, act fast though because I’ve posted them for sale on a number of domainer forums and at $20 a lot of these are going to go quick.

These are all either expiring this month or just expired… the $20 price will include 1 year renewal. All are registered at fabulous. Some really great domains on here and a lot of them I’ll be sad to see go… but as a friend of mine once said, “Never fall in love with inventory!”

Type the domain you want followed by sold and we’ll arrange payment and transfer ASAP.

$20 each
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To purchase any of them, shoot me an email.. you can get my email from the contact page at the top of this site.

So my new mini-site that I’ve developed was outsourced to someone I found on Namepros… I took one of my domains that made $3 in the last two months and decided if it was getting enough traffic just sitting there, it was worth developing. So three days and $45 later, and this is what we got.

GrowVegetablesIndoors.com is a four-page minisite about… wait for it… how to grow vegetables indoors. I’m kind of happy with how it turned out.

The four articles he wrote up are :

- The Benefits of Growing Vegetables Indoors;

- How to Grow Vegetables Indoors Using Container Gardening;

- How to Grow Vegetables Indoors Using Hydroponics; and

- What Are the Easiest Vegetables to Grow Indoors

I’m monetizing the minisite with a dash of google adsense in the articles and a little bit of amazon affiliate buttons carefully chosen to match the four articles. I’ll be happy if this minisite turns out to make the $45 I put into it plus its reg fee in the first year… so $1/week. If it makes less than 20c/week then the whole thing is an epic fail.

On a positive note, the ArcadeNinjas.com site I wrote about a few weeks ago has been doing pretty good. In the last two weeks, it’s made $3.15 in adsense revenue. I might be able to up that a little by putting a banner on the bottom of the first page and putting it up the flash games in the script page… but regardless, it’s probably a safe bet that I’ll recoup the $40 I put into it and have myself a little revenue generator.

Did a little interview the other day for a domainer buddy of mine, Mike Sullivan, who writes a blog at SullysBlog.com. He’s got some good ideas when it comes to domaining and making money on the Internet and I highly recommend giving his blog a quick read if you want to know more about the domain industry. Besides poker, it’s the one industry I’ve found that I can say I’m really passionate about. Even though the Internet feels like it’s been here forever, it really is virgin territory. The first websites just started popping up less than twenty years ago… getting into the business side of it now is kind of like getting into the publishing industry twenty years after the invention of the printing press.

Anyway, give it a look over. And thanks, Mike, for the opportunity to share some ideas on your site.

After a few days of recovering from my Day 2 bustout and generally miserable performance in the WSOP Main Event, I’m back to my normal life… mainly spending my days working on web development projects. I put the finishing touches on one of my new projects, ArcadeNinjas.com. The development path was simple… and it came after I spotted the domain in one of the many domain droplists I pour over every day. The domain had an existing Alexa rank and good search metrics… which basically just means that it already got traffic.

So I snatched the ArcadeNinjas.com domain up for regfee, spent $10 on a web arcade script called Arcade Block, spent $30 on a logo design contest and NamePros, a few hours surfing the Interwebs for free flash games that I would have permission to use on my new arcade site, a few more hours installing (and re-installing the script), a few minutes adding the Google Adsense code and VOILA! A new free flash games website which will hopefully bring enough pennies every week to pay for the yearly renewal fee of $8. For anyone who is too lazy to do the math, a domain needs to make 15 cents on average every week for you to break even.

So… do you want to try out the games and be an Arcade Ninja? You know you want to… check it out!

A few days ago I got an opportunity to work with my buddy Danny with All360Poker on a commentary track of the final table. It’s pretty cool… they’ve got a 360 degree camera over the final table so you really feel like you are right there. Check out how I took the event down by clicking here or just going to ESPN3.com.

Just finished up with the 6max Limit Holdem tourney at the Rio about an hour ago… and guess what? I won my second bracelet!!!

I want to give a special thanks to my beautiful girlfriend Michele, who I couldn’t have done this without. I wouldn’t trade 10 bracelets for a single day with her.

Just wanted to post a quick note to let you readers know that I have this great domain name up for auction right now at Sedo. You can follow the action by going to www.cured.com. If you know of anyone who might be interested in this name, I sure would appreciate it if you’d give them the headsup.

In WSOP news… I’m zero for five, but not losing heart. Plenty of events left and I’m really happy with how I’ve been playing. I’m sure a few of the events will go my way.

All I can think about is November.

On Sunday, between the Sunday Brawl and the 750k Guarantee, I browsed the expired domain names list and saw one that immediately had an obvious development path. So I regged it and an hour and a half later came up with a website where you can check out upcoming online poker freerolls at different poker sites.

A poker freeroll tournament is a tournament where there is no buy-in… but there is a prize! You play poker for free and win real money. They are all over the place around the clock and are a great way to get into the game… or BACK into it after blowing your bankroll.

The site is called FreerollCalendar.com. Check it out!