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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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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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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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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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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Winning eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics might be enough for some people, but Michael Phelps, perhaps the greatest swimmer in history, is now contemplating whether to play in the WSOP*.
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We first reviewed it here last year and this week, the poker movie Deal starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Shannon Elizabeth has been released on DVD.
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We’re a little over three weeks away from Dave Cain’s attempt to break a poker world record by playing heads-up for 100 hours. The endurance test start on 14th September at Lincoln’s Library Bar where Dave hopes to raise £10,000 for Barnabas and Louth and District Hospices.
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Much has already been written about the WSOP* final table and while it won’t be played until November, one player has already declared he’ll be donating 1% of his winnings to a cancer-prevention charity, which could total more than $90,000.
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Is poker art? According to the wonderfully named Ulvis Albert it is and if you’re in any doubt, get a hold of his fabulous Poker Face 2, the book’s 25th Anniversary Edition.
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