Computer Programs Against Poker Pros
You know that at the end of the last century computer programmers were making attempts to create the ideal computer chess game that could beat the world’s best chess players. And they did it in 1997. Nowadays they have drawn their attention to poker, specifically the Texas Holdem poker, and they are working to invent the poker program which will be able to reckon up straight draws, flops, rivers, pocket aces, and other things that make a poker hand.
They have made an AI machine which could beat some of the best online poker pros in a contest ‘Man vs. Machine’. This machine of the second generation was showed up at the WSOP in Las Vegas. One more program ‘Fell Omen 2’ got second prize in an annual competition which opposes AI poker programs against one another. Poker players can use them for free on Fellow’s site.
Speaking about the AI poker programs it is worth noting about that they are able to determine the odds and angles of the game, bet and bluff accordingly. All this is well and nice, however, the programs can’t get all the necessary information and they are not able to consider the ‘human factor’ that is characteristic for the game. Whereas chess has very many set moves, poker has more variables requiring the swifter thinking of a human intellect. Keep in mind that any modern computer can only ‘think’ as fast as its processor can.
Moreover, computer programs can’t look at their opponents and read the language of their body or hear the voice tones. Based on mathematical calculations the computer programs can only play depending on the cards it ‘holds’. A good player of poker watches his opponents do to make any decision.
TitanPoker Added Russian To the List
TitanPoker, one of the biggest online poker rooms all over the world, has added Russian to the list of languages available on their site. They have updated website pages, all their software, and support services in order to include Russian, and now the total number of foreign languages is twelve. The site offers English, French, German, Danish, Italian, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch and Swedish.
According to the manager of Titan Poker, Robin Steele, the company takes particular effort and care to suit all the players. She said that they’d like consumers to have the first-class quality online service as possible. And including more languages like Russian is a clear example of how they take care of players. The company considers that it is necessary to translate the whole site and launch the software in Russian, instead of making players use the site in foreign languages, which they may not know.
It has been noticed by TitanPoker that the number of players from Russia and also Russian speaking countries have grown since the winnings from tournaments and the cash tables have increased. So, it was necessary and natural to include Russian to the listing. TitanPoker is going to add more European languages and when they do this, more gamblers will be able to see what is happening around TitanPoker.
The poker room has been granting big monthly cash giveaways totaling over $16 million. In September there will be a tournament with the guaranteed prize of $2.5 million at the site. The tournament will be the biggest one that TitanPoker has ever held. The company is expecting a great turnout for it. Moreover the poker room will host satellites and qualifiers for live poker tourneys worldwide. TitanPoker was a success at the 2008 WSOP, that’s why they hope that the players whom they send to Macau to the Asian Poker Tour event in August will also do well.
Belgium Plans to Liberalize Online Gambling
The European Union is thought to be ready to liberalize its online gambling industry. Most member-states of the EU have begun regulating the foreign online casino gambling sector and open its market to foreign online casino operators. For example, Belgium has lately showed a genuine interest to enact new legislation, which will adequately comprise online betting as well as provisions for private internet gaming and casino site operators.
Markets and Research has recently released a report concerning gambling situation in The EU. According to it, Belgium is the latest of European countries, which express a less defensive position on online casino and lottery monopolies run by the state, and shows more benevolence towards the internet gambling industry all together. Though some countries, such as Spain and Italy, have a way to go still, the stable progress is certain to be in liberalizing the gambling industry due to the pressure from the side of the EU.
After positive changes concerning online gambling in France and Ireland, Belgium has made a plan to bring in new online gambling legislation that will let the National Lottery go online, in fact. If this happens, the Belgium Federal Parliament wouldn’t have any choice except to open the country’s market to private operators. And according to some analysts, that could occur in 2009.
At the moment, it’d be hard to work out any updated online gambling legislation not including online betting provisions. It is the swiftest increasing area of the betting industry all over the world, and it is unsure to slow down in contrast to the land gambling industry. It’s worth adding that Belgium’s position on online poker and wagering are relatively tolerant.
GPSGlobal Testing Live Dealer Elimination Blackjack Software
GPSGlobal has begun beta testing their Live Dealer Elimination Blackjack software. In case internet casino players receive this software well, the company will launch this software in the forthcoming few weeks. Live dealer games are the new feature for the online casinos although online casinos have been existing for more than ten years. In such a game, a live dealer deals cards and interacts with players by means of a webcam in real time. Players can do everything they do in real casino: bet, raise, and fold staying in the comfort of their own home. Players get the same service they could receive while playing in any land casino.
At the moment only a small number of online casinos give their customers the opportunity to play a live dealer game. Lawrence Davie, the GPS Global Director of Casino Operations, says that their Live Dealer Elimination Blackjack software will set a new standard in the online gambling industry. He also added that the company has already got very positive feedbacks from the players. It is great when the players can see the cards being shuffled and dealt in comparison to shuffling and dealing the cards by a computer.
There are already 5 live dealer games ready and seven more are in production by GPS Global. The population of the live dealer elimination games has increasing over the last few years and GPS thinks that Live Dealer Blackjack Tournaments is the next step. Elimination Blackjack Tournaments are already popular at top online casinos. By adding a live dealer feature and real time play, such games are sure to set a higher standard for other websites.
Winaday Launching A New 3D Game
A new 3D online casino, WinADay.com was announced to be launched by Slotland.com. Several months ago the free games were launched by the online casino and now the real money slots have been added to them. Everybody can play the Lucky-Go-Round, one of the latest 3D games, in free and also real-money Games Hall on the internet casino site.
Players will delight in the animated 3D customer service attendants that greet them when they enter. They help players orientate themselves in the games. The new 3D Games Hall games provide any new player with a 100% deposit bonus (up to $250).
According to Martin Smith, the Pit Boss at WinADay.com, the 3D online casino has taken big steps by realizing the new games, animated customer service attendants, and additional facilities. The team of WinADay.com has been testing the games for a few months and they are going to celebrate the real-money slots launch on their site. The players are sure to enjoy the new offerings from WinADay.
The Lucky-Go-Round 3D slot promises to be a popular with WinADay’s players. The Creators also expect the new game to attract even the most steadfast players who usually play their standard fruit slots. So, one of the regular Slotland.com players after he had tried playing the new slot said that he thought that he found himself in a real casino when the 3D animated attendant greeted him by his first name.
WinADay.com has programmed its games with the newest instant play, no downloadable Flash technology. With the help of this format, the creators can use the rich media in order to meet players’ requirements.
WinADay.com encourages their players with a progressive jackpot that is available in three games: ‘Wheeler Dealer’, ‘Jack’s Show’, and, of course, the ‘Lucky-Go-Around’.
New Slot From Microgaming
This summer Microgaming has released a new online casino slot game, Jolly Jester. It is already a success at the gambling sites licensed by Microgaming. Jolly Jester has two other names, French RouletteGold and Big Kahuna Snakes and Ladders. All these games are available to Microgaming platform licensees. A ground-breaking and unique theme of the Jolly Jester video slots game is certain to keep players excited and interested. And the recurrent bonuses and multipliers which there are in the game without any doubt will grab the keen interest of the public in the game.
Playing the Jolly Jester game you are immersing in atmosphere of the Middle Ages, the time of kings, queens and royal crowd, knights and castles. The game provides players with a first-class graphics, sound effects, and so on. In the game online players try to force their way into and all through the castle, that allows them to get access to special bonus screens where they will be able to win free spins and increase their chance to enhance their winnings. Jolly Jester is a 5-reel 25 pay line video slot with the high quality software that everybody expects from Microgaming.
While playing the Jolly Jester game players ought to hope to win the Jester symbol, which is the wild symbol in the game, it triggers a lot of special bonuses, right of entry to new screens, and other additional incentives to go on playing this game. Jolly Jester was released some weeks ago and the smaller internet gambling sites are launching it on their platform at this moment. For example, PlatinumPlay.com has just announced that Jolly Jester is available on their site.
What is winning a jackpot?
To win a jackpot at the internet-based casinos is really profitable for all involved sides: the winner goes home with some cash in the pocket and the online gambling site also cuts a piece from the winnings. Some players do not know how the online gambling sites make lots of money, where their part comes from and how the jackpots can become so big. In fact it is a very interesting question, particularly when skeptical gamblers hear that the most of legal slots and online slot games give a payout percentage over 90%.
On the whole the payout percentage means that when an online casino player places a dollar into a video slot, this video slot will return 90 cents from this dollar. However, there is a trick into play when someone considers that payout percentages are counted over long time periods, not for a day. The said means that the online and traditional casino slots can keep the required payout percentages and collect these winnings into a big jackpot. After the jackpot has been won and a player cashes out his jackpot the casinos can take a percentage out of the winning, so called administration fees.
As for the Bad Beat Jackpot game from Microgaming, it is the game in which numerous internet casino poker gamblers play against each other at the online poker table. After the jackpot has been activated the progressive jackpot payout is tiered, meaning that the winner and other players at the virtual poker table have access only to 70% of the jackpot.
Viral Discus Champion Game from King Solomons
Now the world is looking forward to the Summer Olympics in China. In order to get into the spirit of this outstanding international event and to start a little friendly competition online King Solomons casino is launching their online viral Discus Champion Game.
The Discus Champion game is perhaps one of the first viral games for an internet-based casino, and it is certain to be the first to catch the spirit of this considerable world’s sports event. As for King Solomons, this game is an innovative method to make it to its worldwide audience.
Discus Champion Game offers a variety of prizes each month, such as a Wii, Ipods, PSPs and digital cameras. The game collects together online gamblers from all over the world. Every player chooses what country he/she wants to represent and then the player has 3 attempts to throw the discus as far as he/she can. These three throws are summed up and determine the final ranking of a player. Anybody will be able to have the chance to achieve golden glory virtually.
Discus Champion’s striking use of graphics and audio fully capturing the atmosphere of international competition puts the game ahead of the majority of other games. There you can hear the roar of the crowd, see the visual magnificence and real tension of competing that all created realistically. The winners will see the flag of their country hoisting to the top of the leaderboard.
The casino is going to run a different competition monthly with a variety of prizes so that players can compete over and over.
King Solomons Casino was founded in 1998, it is one of the oldest and most respected online casinos in the world nowadays.
Cash Games at DuplicatePoker
DulicatePoker.com. is adding cash games to their selection of games. Playing cash games (also called ring games) players can get cash winnings after each hand in place of winning only after the whole game has been played.
The stakes at DuplicatePoker will be between a nickel and $10. Despite the fact that these are not big money really, skilled players can make a good winning playing even on the lower bets. Everybody will begin with a thousand chips and they will see how the amount of chips goes up and down with each hand. The success and failure of a player will be compared to the results of other players at the other tables and players will be given a payout for increases in their chips that have been rising by increments.
According to Moshe Davidovich, spokesperson of DuplicatePoker.com, cash games will speed up the games and the poker players who enjoy fast action will certainly like them. Moreover it’ll better align the DuplicatePoker concept with the expectations and experiences players take from other poker rooms.
DuplicatePoker offers poker players of various skill and bankroll levels nightly tournaments. Also the member players will be able to see a hand history log so in order to improve and develop their skills by analyzing the mistakes made during the play. The members will be able to see, learn, and review all the completed hands. Moreover an interactive video poker tutorial is available on the site that explains novice players how to play the particular game. Players can play free and real money games.
The site is offering cash bonuses. What’s more DuplicatePoker.com allows the US poker players in and it is the only legal poker room in the States.
Cryptologic making changes
Cryptologic is making the track for the players of online poker in order to customize their favorite game. Changes are just yet to come so they will provide the players with the option to adjust poker games immediately to the home comforts. These forthcoming changes will give a new world of the playing options to the poker-players on the new Cryptologic site.
The first business order is the establishments of techniques that will let the players participate in the poker tourneys. At first sight it might seem to look not like a change. But further investigation display the ability of customizing the tournament play. It will create the atmosphere of having poker tournament at the kitchen in the friends’ circle.
One of the features which should be mentioned is the ability to draw all the interested players to the table and involve them into the playing process. The best players can be invited for a challenging poker round in the world of online gaming. The worst players can be invited as well and thus bring the opportunity for the easy money in the customized poker tourney.
The second feature that Cryptologic can offer is the ability of creation of a personalized playing room of the online poker. There will be a top-of-the-line filtering and sorting tool that is involved in the process. Together both elements provide the opportunity for the player to create a poker room of the feel, look and design like in their dreams.
This poker room can really change with any playing hand once a player prefers. Having made a preferential combination design, each player can actually decide whether to keep it or not. Anyway it’s a unique poker room, that can’t be found anywhere else in the world of online gaming.
Cryptologic is well aware of the fact that the main success in the world of online gaming is the customer experience. If that experience is blue chip, a player will definitely long to get back on a daily base to play the available games. These poker playing changes touch the senses of the regular players of websites. By the way, there is such a hope, that all new-comers will be tempted to play on this gaming site, when they learn about the options of poker playing.
Brian Hadfield, CEO and President of Cryptologic illustrates the changes as the revolutionary ones, which are being made to correspond to the players’ expectations from the online gaming company. Poker playing is surely going to make a breakthrough to the next stage, where all the players transfer from feeling like playing somebody’s game to the one of being in charge of gaming skill from the very beginning up to the end.
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