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Poker Bots – Friend or Foe?

May 21, 2008

irobot

Here’s an interesting ‘tell all’ story about poker bots in action. Personally, I’m still on the fence, as I feel most poker bots play abc style ‘robotic’ poker that all low limit donks play – and while these bots may spew chips slightly less than a real human, they are not so advanced to be thinking along multiple lines – therefore, these bots would be no tougher to play against than your regular micro-stakes donk. Maybe I’m just naive, or hopeful, or interestingly enough overconfident (like most poker players).

http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working-poker-bot

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Come on Chuck it’s only 400k.

May 20, 2008

Sir Charles Barkley owes the Wynn 400k from bad gambling debts. Word on the street is the money was lost on some poorly timed super bowl bets. Someone in collections hasn’t been doing a very good job. Chuck acknowledged his tardy payment was all his fault, and apparently announced on his NBA pregame show that he repaid the debt. As of 5/20, the Wynn says otherwise. Maybe Durrr can spot him a few bucks.

This isn’t the first time he’s had a run in with gambling debts/losses…he claims this incident has made him want to stop gambling. My guess is the over/under on that is 6months.

You can read the news story from the Las Vegas Sun here.

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How to Cheat at Poker

May 20, 2008

School Cheat

I saw this posted on msn somewhere…so just in case you want to nick your friends out of a few bucks in the home game:

SOME CARD CHEATS ARE ENTERPRISING: marked decks, complex devices up the sleeve, secret codes of earlobe tugging known only to a partner in crime. But if you’re like most people, you’re that glorious combination of slightly crooked and a little lazy. So here we present the four easiest ways to hoodwink your poker buddies. All of which, of course, we strongly condemn.

SHORTING THE POT. Both amateurish and absurdly effective. Call an eight-dollar bet with six bucks in chips. Throw them directly into the pot before anybody has a chance to count them.

FAKING A HAND. If you miss drawing to your flush but get a card of the same color, just fan out your matching cards and tuck the fifth card behind them so only the colored number can be seen. Just be ready to look shocked (shocked!) if somebody catches you.

THE PREMATURE CALL. Trust us–this works. When the other guy raises you on the final bet, pick up your chips but don’t throw them in the pot. Then announce your hand. Nine out of ten times, your opponent will think you called his raise. If you win, take the pot. If you lose, you saved a couple bucks for hooch.

DEALING FROM THE BOTTOM. Takes about as much dexterity as snapping your fingers. Hold the deck loosely and angled down, with your right thumb pointing toward you. When you deal the bottom card, simply flick your middle finger instead of your thumb. Of course, this won’t help unless you know what the bottom card is. Not a problem: Bend back the card and use the width of the deck as a cover). One other tip, just in case: Sit near the door and leave the car outside, engine running.

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NES Controller Coffee Table

May 19, 2008

Holy Shiiite. Giant Size Nintendo Controller that functions as an authentic controller, coffee table, and game storage unit. This is an incredible project, very well executed. From this guy.

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Bay 2 Breakers Debauchery

May 19, 2008

Officially, Bay 2 Breakers is a 7.5mi road race that takes place through the streets of San Francisco, CA. It goes from one end of town (aka the bay) to the other (the ocean). An American hasn’t won the race since like 1998 or something. It’s all Kenya, all the time. Although this year a Moroccan man did put up a good fight at the finish. But these crazy runners do this course in like 38min. We on the other hand do it in about 5 hours.

Unofficially, this is the biggest street party of the year. At the back of the line, all us rather unfit individuals gather. Most in ceremonial garb. The standard outfit this year seemed to be tight American Apparel Shorts and an Afro wig. There are people pushing floats, which generally contain a keg or three. There is nudity. Male and Female. There are the ‘salmon’ or those than run upstream. And it’s an overall good time.

The video:

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Pooping your Pants while 8-tabling

May 18, 2008

Jeezus…the end of the poker world is nigh. Saw this @ wicked chops, but from 2+2 forum:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=204247

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New PROP theme song

May 17, 2008

I never really liked this guy, but I might need to re-evaluate after this:

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Biggest Winners and Losers for May

May 16, 2008

Half way through, here’s what it looks like according to highstakesdb.com:

Top winners and losers (All sites, All Gametypes, 2008-05-01 to 2008-05-15)

	Winners	Results	Sessions	Hands	Hours
	CHUFTY	$881.069,75	164	15101	229,67
	Markus Golser	$626.538,00	102	10054	128,37
	durrrr	$592.840,50	70	7708	111,73
	Ziigmund	$522.461,00	75	6498	63,23
	David Benyamine	$509.046,00	116	13670	160,64
	Cogaz	$417.826,50	29	4471	56,19
	La Key U	$404.105,00	46	2519	40,19
	-NoName-	$379.429,46	26	5475	31,02
	Cole South	$195.843,00	10	563	8,48
	SteveSung	$179.548,00	48	3626	51,80

	Losers	Results	Sessions	Hands	Hours
	lady marmelade	$-561.653,95	46	7669	113,13
	EURO32PLYR	$-523.874,50	21	1747	28,14
	Ugadabugada	$-485.462,00	37	2321	29,24
	Urindanger	$-460.407,60	98	8015	79,54
	trex313	$-448.073,00	108	12099	159,76
	MSampoerna	$-314.816,25	21	3784	28,57
	Luck123	$-287.920,00	33	1449	18,70
	Eric Liu	$-244.385,60	50	5486	59,52
	guaranteed376	$-218.706,00	13	711	10,82
	ICallSoWhat	$-173.944,00	97	7993	107,74

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I miss my turntables

May 14, 2008

and I need to get one of these:

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WSOP 2008 ME Final Table Delay

May 7, 2008

If you haven’t already heard, the world series of poker main event final table for 2008 will be delayed until November 9-10, 2008. Yikes…

It certainly is an interesting concept. The days leading up to the final table will be played the first week of July. Is this a buzz kill?

Many of the top pros are supporting this decision by Harrah’s, and while initially I thought this was a pretty gary move I am starting to come around on the idea. It will certainly be a buzz kill for those in Vegas during July. But having been there the past few years myself, I can attest to the fact that the cash games dry up during the main event (especially the final few days/final table day) and people are generally on their way out of vegas.

This leaves us to the shotty updates of the likes of cardplayer, pokernews, et al. to learn who the winner is. There was a pay-per-view type live coverage of the final table, but that isn’t a perfect solution either since final tables take foooorreeevvveerrr in the live setting. Then ESPN edits it down and plays it a few months later, when the poker community has long since forgotten about the wsop and cares more about who won the sunday million last week.

So the final table excitement has always been a little anti-climatic, and now this new change in format provides an opportunity for people within and outside of the poker community to discuss who will possibly win – and watch it together in a more real time setting.

Also of note – anyone making the final table in July will be paid 9th place money before they go home to practice sng’s for the rest of the summer. Last year that was in the 9th place finisher received a little over $500k. I’ll take it. They will also be paid airfare and accomodations for two to come back in November.

It will be funny to watch all the degenerate scrubs who make the final table come back with a whole new swagger in November – look out new shiny shirts, shoes, and suits…papa’s got a brand new bag!

You can read the official press release here.

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Shannon Shorr – Not the Brightest Bulb in the Bunch

April 29, 2008

From last years WSOP – kids, don’t try this at home.

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$2.5M River Card

April 26, 2008

Gus Hansen, the man with 85% of chips in play, down to two at the WPT Championship, $25k event at the Bellagio is currently blessed with the anti-doom switch. He’s had a set over set situation to bust Tommy Legend, he needed a non-flush 7 outter on river to bust another, and shoved with 7hi flush draw against second place chips with 4 left….GG Gus, $3.3M is alright. I’m sure the other guys that play high stakes PLO with him on Tilt are excited.

Check out the biggest pot of the tourney, where he was involved with Cory Carroll – nice call Cory – tough result, a $2.5M ish downtick, but nice call anyway: as reported by cardplayer….

Hand #16 – David Chiu has the button in seat 3, and there is no small blind. Hansen raises from the cutoff to 480,000, Carroll reraises from the big blind to 1.65 million, and Hansen thinks for a bit before he calls. The two chipleaders apparently aren’t afraid to mix it up in a big pot.

The flop comes QJ6, Carroll checks, and Hansen stands up to get a better look at Carroll’s chip stack across the table. After about two minutes of thinking with a pained expression on his face, Gus Hansen moves all in, and the crowd gasps.

Carroll looks surprised, but he takes his time, rechecking his cards and taking a close look at his own chip stack. If he calls and wins, he would be a dominant chipleader with 15 million, but if he loses, he’s out of the tournament in fourth place. If he folds, he’ll still have a little less than 6 million in chips, which is still a solid second on the leaderboard. Carroll seems to be studying everything but his opponent — he only gives occasional glances Hansen’s way.

Several times, it looks like Carroll has come to a decision, but then he continues thinking. He’s definitely not Hollywooding it here.

Carroll finally calls all in for 6,925,000, and the crowd gasps. Carroll shows AJfor a pair of jacks. Hansen shows 75 for a diamond flush draw, and he’ll need to improve to bust Carroll here.

The turn is the Q, and Carroll is still in the lead with two pair. Hansen needs any diamond but the queen (which would give Carroll a full house) to win the pot.