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.
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.
PPA Wants US Gambling Legislation To Be Changed
The USA continues equivocating that organizations such as the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) are trying to reopen the American internet-based gambling market in order to allow all forms of online gambling. The PPA wants to make legislative carve-outs for online poker gambling that would exempt the gambling activity from the UIGEA, the US online casinos prohibition. At the moment there are more than one million US registered members in the PPA with hundreds of thousands in funds.
The PPA uses some of its funds to lobby Congress. They want Congress to change the current online gambling legislation. Other funds are spent on educating land-based casino poker players and state politicians. At this time, the PPA has got a booth at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It is using the WSOP as a platform in order to educate land poker gamblers of the present hypocritical and unconstitutional US online gambling ban. The WSOP welcomes the best online and land poker gamblers who make the event the ideal site for the organization to reach a broad band of their market target.
Alfonse D’Amato, the Chairman of the PPA, gave his comments on the prime PPA’s booth location, “We are excited to bring our grassroots attempts to the sacred ground of poker. We’re thankful that Harrah’s and the WSOP have provided premium space for us to pass the message to the poker community.” The PPA is aimed at spreading its message that poker is a skill game not a crime.
Poker Players To Beware of
The World Series of Poker is the major poker event of the year for gamblers worldwide. As the WSOP 2008 comes nearer, gamblers are playing against each other and the poker pros. The list of gamblers that will be playing at the Rio Casino Resort in Las Vegas is already filled. These players are the ones who have won a lot of tournaments, got millions of dollars, they are really the best. If you have never heard about these men, it is time for you to meet them in order to know whom you’re facing.
Phil Hellmuth began playing since the 1988 WSOP and has 11 bracelets, the most quantity compared to other players. Cashing 63 times he won over $5.6 million.
Allen Cunningham has won over $6.5 million since 2004. He holds five bracelets and was voted the 2005 WSOP Player of the Year.
Erik Seidel has won since 1992; he won over $3.7 million and owns 8 WSOP bracelets. In 2005 he won the $2,000 No Limit HoldeEm tournaments, he managed to beat 1,402 players in 2005 and he won $5,000 lowball event of 2007.
Lastly there is Phil Ivey cashed out ten times since 2004, he won $2.8 million dollars. Ivey has five WSOP bracelets. He won three of his five bracelets in 2002.
There are a group of other gamblers whom a newbie should keep a sharp eye out for, those who won at least two bracelets. Scott Fischman, Jeff Madsen, Bill Chen, Rafi Amit, Ted Forrest, Mark Seif, Scott Clements, Barry Greenstein, and Tom Schneider, 2007 Player of the Year, are going to attend this year event.
The Cheating Scandals At Online Casinos
The online poker gambling industry seems to work through a new big cheating scandal. In August, 2007 the cheating scandal was burst out at Absolute Poker, and although at first the site asserted that the cheating claims did not take place, finally the site admitted that an Absolute employee cheated hundreds of thousands in winnings out of poker players. That scandal drew to a close at the beginning of this year, and some weeks later a cheating scandal at Ultimate Bet, Absolute’s sister site, was uncovered by poker players.
The things have developed at the same scenario, at first Ultimate Bet stated that the cheating claims were invalid, but then the casino poker gambler went on claiming that some gamblers in the high-stakes tourneys were with a false edge over other gamblers. After several months of denial, the two online casinos players are demanding that Ultimate Bet take measures concerning the cheating.
The online gambling community has conducted their own nonofficial investigation of the Ultimate Bet scandal, and though charges won’t be brought from this investigation, many people are convinced that the Ultimate Bet employee used the same cheating tactics.
The fact that alarms more and more and a lot of online poker players have noted it is that the merely 2 companies in the whole online casino gambling industry with such scandals are owned by Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG and both of them are licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. These facts would provide valuable clues with regard to why the cheating claims go on.
New offers in American Online Casinos
Soon the US casino gamblers will be able to play online again or as close as they can to it since TableMax, the popular Caribbean Stud Poker game has lately got GLI certification.
As one of the most popular table games that have ever been introduced to the online casino gambling market, it’s undoubtedly an important addition to the TableMax game set. This certification goes after the recent progressive Blackjack certification of the company that is also a great success in the casino gambling market. TableMax has submitted to the GLI plenty of its other casino games such as Draw Poker, Caribbean Draw Poker, and Bonus Blackjack in order to get certifications. It also has submitted the highly successful Texas Holdem Bonus Poker that has swept over the casino gambling market as the swiftest added felt-based proprietary table game in history.
Stephen Crystal, the TableMax CEO said that this news was pleasant to the company. He stated that Caribbean Stud Poker helps to reinvigorate more traditional casino table games, and such a popular game in combination with an extraordinary progressive jackpot, is becoming a winning combo for both operators and gamblers alike.
Caribbean Stud Poker uses the electronic table game platform of the company. This platform makes a multi-casino and multi-table network available for the players. The representatives of TableMax assert that it’s the best opportunity to play online progressive slots for casino gambling players.
Likewise Microgaming offers a progressive CyberStud Poker, the game that is extremely popular by online gamblers.
AOL Granting WSOP Seats
Recently it has been announced by America Online (AOL) that their site, Games.com, is going to give 6 lucky poker gamblers seats to the WSOP Main Event that will be held in Las Vegas. The giant Internet Corporation that is based in the USA offers a free, online No Limit Texas Holdem poker tournament to their players on their Games.com’s World Series of Poker hub. From now till 15June, 2008, gamblers can play in order to win one of the seats.
The six best gamblers who qualify can win a seat to No Limit Texas Holdem World Championship that will take place on 2July, 2008. AOL provides travel and accommodations for winners in addition to the seat at the WSOP tables. As cash gaming in the USA has been limited because of the state’s restrictions AOL gives this chance for free.
Greg Mills, the director of AOL, stated that free-play online poker is one of the most popular categories on Games.com. He added “We’re excited to keep our exclusive agreement with Harrah’s License Company, LLC the WSOP owner to offer players an opportunity to win a seat at the table with Poker pros. And playing their cards properly, they could win millions.”
Similar to many other qualifiers AOL’s tournaments will run during the next 6 weeks. Every day gamblers have an opportunity to win in the free qualifying tourneys, and then it will let them play in a Sunday tournament, ‘Winner-Takes-All’. The winning players receive a free entry pass to the WSOP, accommodations and travelling from any place in the USA to the 2008 WSOP No Limit Texas Holdem Championship. The championship is taking place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas and begins on 3 July.
Everest Poker deals with WSOP to brand the table felts
Perhaps, World Series of Poker, the biggest and most popular poker tournament worldwide, is ready to get big exposure from the latest online endorsement. Everest Poker, the well-liked internet-based poker room, lately issued a press release publicizing their deal with WSOP in order to brand the table felts and inner rung of final tables at WSOP, and expressed their opinion about the schedules of November 2008.
Jennifer Joyce, Everest Poker Chief Marketing Officer, has noted that the scheduling will give a better chance to greater amount of poker fans in Europe to see the most popular poker event in the globe. Taking into account that online betting of Everest Poker is mainly in Europe, the deal will not only give more exposure to WSOP, it’ll also allow more European gamblers to take part in WSOP internet satellite tournaments.
Without a doubt Everest Poker will also get a rush in exposure as the deal result. They are expected to reach a 200 million audience all over the world through WSOP’s massive television coverage.
Evidently, there’s a new scheduling format that is to spark interest in more people about poker. Everest Poker is certain to take this mission. They offer lots of incentives to new gamblers who open real account with them. They also let gamblers take part in fun games of “play money» to get to know more about the online poker formalities. They aren’t open to the United States, but they are a success with the global betting community in general. Everest was one of the first internet poker rooms that launched a multilingual platform for players all over the world.
Ten Players Sent By 888 to World Poker Crown
888.com is the biggest and most trusted online casino and poker room on the website. Everybody can enjoy the best choice of online gambling games here. It is also one of the top leading entertainment and gaming companies in the world.
Some days ago the 888.com launched World Poker Crown with more than 2 thousand players all of them are competing for the biggest guaranteed prize of $3 million with $1 million for first place.
A great deal of players joined online in order to watch for eleven hours as the amount decreased to 10 players. Then 888.com paused on the tournament and it’s sending the final 10 gamblers to the World Poker Crown $3 million guaranteed offline final table that will be held in Barcelona in 10 days!
The 10 players are from Canada, Germany Italy, Holland, and Poland. They ear given an unbelievable VIP journey to Spain and an opportunity to win the largest prize of $3 million that has ever been offered by 888.com, and the World Poker Crown. The offline final table is held from 6th to 10th May and the winning players will get: all flights and transfers to Barcelona, helicopter transfer to the Peralada Castle Resort, accommodation for 3 nights in the 5 star Peralada Hotel and luxury hospitality at the events.
Gigi Levy, 888.com CEO, said ” 888 is all about ‘Enjoying The Game’ “. He considers that the best way to allow people to ‘Enjoy the game’ is to send the best players to this World Poker Crown $3 million Guaranteed final table where somebody will get the crown and will bring home $1 million.
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