Terms & Conditions

Posted December 21, 2006.

Welcome to the Terms & Conditions for notedpokerauthority.com. AKA Ed’s rules.

This is Ed Miller’s website, and when you’re at Ed Miller’s website, you play by Ed Miller’s rules. Here are the rules (in no particular order).

• No content on this site should be construed to advocate illegal or online gambling. Ed likes playing poker as much as the next guy, but he recommends that you play only in legally sanctioned casinos. Ed thinks playing poker on the interweb is bad. But Ed thinks playing poker on the interweb badly is even worse. So if you ask about a hand played on the interweb, Ed will answer, and he will assume that you are playing legally in your jurisdiction, and he will also urge you (perhaps telepathically) to stop playing on the interweb. Ed heard once that every time you play poker on the interweb, God kills a kitten. You have been warned.
• Ed gives advice about poker. But playing poker carries inherent risk, and Ed absolutely unequivocally does not promise that if you follow his advice (or any advice posted on notedpokerauthority.com) that you will make money. No earthly person could make that promise in good conscience, and Ed certainly doesn’t. If you use any advice from this website, you do so 100% at your own risk. You could lose. You could lose a lot. You could lose every day you play poker for the rest of your life. Ed is not responsible for that. However, Ed does promise not to laugh at you for losing. That’s just mean.
• Ed may or may not answer your question. Ed is but one man, and there are many of you. Ed solicits questions and answers them, but he gets too many questions to answer them all. It’s up to him which questions he answers and which ones he doesn’t, and he doesn’t promise to even send you a response saying he doesn’t plan to answer your question. He tries not to be a jerk, but he’s hopelessly disorganized, and he loses track of things all the time. Please don’t hold it against him.
• Ed will occasionally talk about himself in the third person.
• If you submit a question or comment on notedpokerauthority.com, you grant Ed the right to display it on notedpokerauthority.com (or any successor website) in perpetuity. In perpetuity means as long as Ed can still afford the hosting bill or until he goes insane and deletes the blog in a fit of rage.
• Ed writes books about poker, and it’s entirely likely that at some point he’ll decide some of the content on notedpokerauthority.com is book-worthy. If you submit a question to Ed, and he answers it on this website, you grant Ed the right to use your question verbatim or in altered form in any medium including (but not limited to) online, print, or cinema. That means your question could appear on another website, syndicated on a number of websites, in a book, or it could be acted out by Mel Gibson in a 3-hour epic. Ed may even use your question in a series of poker-related action figures. It could happen. Your sole consideration for Ed’s unlimited use of your question is his polite and pithy reply on notedpokerauthority.com.
• Comments are another story. You retain the copyright to any comment you post on notedpokerauthority.com, and you grant Ed the right to display it only on this website (or its successors). I said that above, but I figured I’d repeat it. That means that Ed promises not to use any content from your comments in any book or action figure series without your permission. Basically, you ask a question and Ed answers it, it becomes fair game for Ed (or anyone else) to use however they please. You post a comment, though, then the only thing you permit is Ed to display it on this website.
• It’s highly likely that someone will offer to buy notedpokerauthority.com from Ed for a sum of no less than $10 million. If that happens, whoever buys it will assume the rights and duties regarding your content that you previously assigned to Ed.
• Ed displays advertisements from 3rd parties on this website. It helps to pay the bills. Ed does not vet these ads, nor does he vouch for anything promised by these ads or advertisers. Ed can’t even guarantee that the advertiser is acting legally. Ed can assure you with some certainty, however, that if the advertiser promises to make something bigger in a “natural” way, it probably doesn’t work. Ed recommends that you always keep your wits about you, that you look both ways before crossing the street, and that you don’t take candy from strangers. And for heaven’s sake, don’t hand your bankroll over to someone for “safe keeping.” If you see an ad that looks like a problem ad, please bring it to Ed’s attention. But again, if an advertiser rips you off or breaks the law, it’s their problem, not mine.
• Ed cannot vouch for the veracity of any comment posted by another user. In fact, Ed specifically warns you that many comments will be posted by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. This is particularly likely if the comment contains any of the following terms: “LOL, LOLLERSKATES, ZOMG, WTF, RIGGED, PATTERN MAP, or BUSTO.” This list may be amended at any time without warning.
• Ed may amend and/or add rules at any time. If he does so, he promises to announce the change on the website (except if he amends the list of terms above).
• If you don’t like Ed’s rules, your sole recourse is to stop coming to notedpokerauthority.com. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.