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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
The GUKPT season, now well past the halfway stage, yesterday (Thursday) returned to the casino in Bolton where the whole caboodle kicked off in January last year. Littlewoods Poker pros Michael Greco and Tony Cascarino will hope to be in touch with the action come the weekend, with Michael keen to add to the £100,000 he won in Cardiff last autumn when playing on the same tour. The latest event is scheduled to run until Sunday.
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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
According to a report timed to coincide with a vote by the Italian Parliament on whether the nation’s politicians considered online gambling legal, the average Italian spends approximately EUR 600 a year playing online poker. The Consumers Defence and Orientation Association estimates that as a nation, Italy spends some EUR 350 million on online poker each year. In other words, Italian poker has been booming for years, but following the outstanding performances of online sensation Dario Minieri at the last two WSOP events, its popularity has soared.
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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Students across the land have long beeen used to generating scandalised (some might say hypocrytical) reactions to what appears to be the most innocuous or side-splittingly funny. Who, for example, could not find starting a Mexican wave in a chemistry lecture funny? And only the comically challenged could fail to appreciate how attending an exam with your own cheerleaders added some much-needed levity to an otherwise dull affair.
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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Reaction to the new electronic poker tables at the Excalibur in Vegas have been mixed after the resort became the first on the Strip to fully automate its poker room last month, installing 12 electronic tables provided by North Carolina-based PokerTek for a six-month trial run.
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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Twenty-odd years ago, when introducing Jocky Wilson’s undulating tale of life as a darts player, Sid Waddell, the game’s most recognisable voice, described the professional darts scene as a “landscape of colour, character, style, wit and controlled aggression.”
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by Simon Dexter Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Using poker as an excuse when you should be doing something else or be somewhere else is probably something many of us have done more than once, but last week, two such examples took the biscuit.
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by Simon Dexter Thursday, August 28th, 2008
If we can have degree courses in flower arranging and dog grooming, then why not online poker? Well, actually, we haven’t, although as an examination of the psychology behind online gaming, gambling and dating are promised as being key features of the UK’s first ‘cyberpsychology’ degree, we’re not far away.
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by Simon Dexter Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Following our story about Olympic great Michael Phelps in last week’s SFTW, the PR guys behind the Asian Poker Tour (APT) were quick off the mark and wrote him an open letter inviting him to stop off on his way home and play in this week’s APT event in Macau which finishes on the 31st August.
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by Simon Dexter Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Having achieved success when it comes to beating chess masters, creating a machine to beat the world’s leading poker players is computer engineering’s latest goal. To a degree, this has already happened for last month, a computer program managed to beat several leading online poker players in a contest entitled “Man v Machine”.
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by Simon Dexter Thursday, August 28th, 2008
When Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson beat TJ Cloutier in the WSOP* main event in 2000, many game theorists hailed the victory as one which marked the beginning of a new poker age. Forget all of that nonsense about reading your opponent or wearing dodgy sunglasses and a headset they suggested, for poker is en route to becoming a lot like chess or backgammon. In both of these games, computer models can replicate the moves of the greatest players; only child prodigies and world-class players can beat them.
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