The machines learn to bluff … and prove it

April 20th, 2012

In the same way that in chess, engineers are spirit to “train” machines bluff. Indeed, when we know a little software called “classics” of poker, it’s hard to believe since the software has a behavior recurring and never bluff.

Today these new “super machines” are able to analyze the behavior of players they have at the table but above all they are capable of bluffing: go on a blow in which they normally would have nothing to do there …

Two major poker professionals Phil Laak and Ali Eslami were thus measured one of these machines at a convention in Canada. The result is (hopefully) in favor of man, but the victory did not come easily because at the end of the first day, there was a victory in each camp. The last part was won by man, but not without difficulty …

It’s a safe bet that we will find this type of machine in the very near future in casinos -> It will feel to play slot machine, when in fact it will be spirited to measure the equivalent a world champion poker

Domenech converted in poker?

March 24th, 2012

The unpopularity of the former coach of the France soccer team is not afraid to Bwin, the operator of sport and paris online poker. The site, which had in the past, sponsored Raymond Domenech in major poker tournaments without much success, plans to continue the adventure with him.
Bwin pourrait même organiser des tournois en ligne où le but serait d’éliminer l’ancien patron des Bleus avec une prime à la clé ! This can actually be interested in the world. However, there is no question for now that the site uses its ambassador on sports betting .

250 miles of the FPT Winamax

January 18th, 2012

The points you earn by playing in Winamax, called Miles. Unlike those of Air France, no discount on airline tickets with, but tickets for tournaments online, including a satellite for POKER TOUR FRANCE! I had some side when I signed up to the satellite tonight. It starts at 20.15 and offers the opportunity to top 8 to qualify directly for the tournament to be held in the city of their choice. Fingers crossed

Blackjack players

November 15th, 2011

Blackjack is one of the most popular games at the casino. It attracts more and more players from all backgrounds. If this game was for a number of discreet enough time, he really exploded today, whether online or in hard, know that the casinos offer this game is already guaranteed success.

Just as poker (we also used to combine the two games), blackjack players have a particular profile. It is not the case for games like roulette or slot machines, or even video poker.

Blackjack players are players who have experience in the casino. Indeed, it can not be improvised blackjack player, it does not “try his luck” in this game. It requires experience and technical minimum.

Can decline the blackjack player in several categories:

- professionals. Like poker, there are players who live blackjack, participating in tournaments, which have made ​​a trade. These players are references in the environment and are not so numerous as that. Not only do they play perfectly to blackjack, but they are the best ambassadors to the extent that it is they who carry the picture, the spirit, the culture of this game is why they are called often the players’ hall of fame ”

- Statisticians. We know the game of blackjack requires a certain dexterity in mathematics. We will not ask you to leave additional math, math specific, although it requires knowing how to count cards. Memory and a sense mathematicians are major assets in this game Some players, like the precursor to blackjack, Edward O. Thorp, are experts in this field. They are often formidable players that do little room for emotions and feelings.

- Hotheads. this spirited players who have no problem to take unnecessary risks, often just for the sake of impressing their opponents. They play aggressive and are often unpredictable. Obviously, these players sow disorder on the blackjack tables, but they can be very dangerous, sometimes as often as they lose parts by leaving a lot of money. With them “all or nothing.”

- The patient. This player is the alien! Nothing distracting, he spends part to observe the play of others, to study the smallest signs of clues in his opponents. He has rarely put a lot! He did not commit when he considers that it has a chance to win.

Painful Online – the story the player is not very high

October 6th, 2011

My first experience in online poker has been like a roller coaster. I bought into the $ 600 bonus and create yourself an account on Full Tilt , then there exist only support Mac OS. Not knowing the proper management of your bank, I chose the big game and very quickly squander the bonus money. Somehow I was attracted to razz – a game that I have not played before this ever. I quickly learned the rules and began regularly playing the game 3-6 and 5-10 (once again, I knew nothing about proper management of your bank!). Money on my account to arrive, and to my delight, I was playing at the same table with such legends as Poker Jennifer Harman, Eric Seidl , John Juandah, and Andy Block. One day I suddenly got up to $ 1,500. I participated in a $ 30 – $ 60, and I even had a chance to bluff against former world champion in the draw of a major bank. I did it before knew what to play at this level in my abilities and my bank was foolhardy.

I promised myself to withdraw $ 600, which I introduced to the game as soon as my account reaches $ 2,000, but when it happened, I decided to postpone the withdrawal of money, because, in my opinion, I could have done it at any time, because I went on to win. What happened next, you all know. Murphy’s Law has worked, and as I understood it, $ 2000 gone. I stayed only a couple of funny stories I can tell your friends over a game of poker and emotional devastation. In all, I blame myself, blame the site, which is with remarkable regularity “rewarded” me bad cards. After this incident, I decided that online poker is not for me, and did not play more than a year.

Shortly before the Super Bowl Sunday 2008, I learned that PokerStars released client platform for Mac OS. I’ve made ​​an irresistible urge to try again, what is online poker. I started reading the theme of Chris Ferguson in our web site, and I thought it would be great to start from scratch and from nothing to rise to an impressive bank. However, I was working full-time, except that I was constantly under the supervision of the family – in such circumstances will be difficult to engage in constant battles and game lead in the amount of money in the bank. In my head as soon as ripe a few plans. I decided to create an alliance with his friend, asked him to bring to the start of my account on Stars $ 50 with the proviso that he’ll return the money as soon as I can.

Bankroll Management

August 26th, 2011

the first introduction to online poker has ended in failure, only because of the inability to properly manage a bankroll. I’ve been playing, not paying attention to money, and, despite initial success, poor maps, coupled with sloppy play led to a well-known consequences, my bill plummeted to zero.

In my opinion there are two approaches to poker, the first – is perceived solely as a poker entertainment, and, consequently, losing money wasting seen as inevitable, for example, for a nice dinner. Until you can afford to throw money at the poker table, usually it does not matter, you will lose or win. Many visit Las Vegas is with this attitude, considering their losses as a tax on sight, in this case entertainment.

The second approach is to consider poker as a small business you can either save or multiply. The first council, which usually give budding entrepreneurs – “never stopped working.” Like any other enterprise, the path to success is not always rosy, because no one is immune from failure. As a result, the most important condition – absolutely isolated bankroll. Your basic needs should be covered from other sources. If you do not need to pay bills with money won at poker, your game is slowly but surely will improve, because the money for that cling like a straw, rarely win.

The next step – to allocate the initial capital for their businesses. Unlike other initiatives, the online poker will require from you is not too much – a computer, Internet access and the ability to pay sites. Rest of the money you invest, directly playing poker online for a table. I find it absolutely necessary to open a personal bank account designated solely for poker. Keep this money separate from other accounts, and you will be much easier to monitor how things are your business. By the way, there will be more than keep a record of victories and defeats, so many successful players after each session, record their achievements in the magazine. Moreover, they point out the game and bring the opponents of the financial results of each session. I would suggest to update their results, at least every week and monitor any unexpected situations that may arise.

Only once, specifying how will your start-up capital or initial bankroll, you can easily calculate the stacks are available to you, which you can expect during the game.

For example: a month ago, my bankroll was $ 1,200, given that I started in February with a mark of $ 50, for this time of my investments have brought good results. I lost the entire buy-in tournaments in consecutive sessions in No Limit Hold’em, whenever my opponent managed to gather on the river outs. No matter how much time you play poker, you should be aware that such things happen, and sometimes several times within a short period of time. This phenomenon is called – swing, and it is an integral part of poker, which leads to the risk.

At the moment, I am ready to hear the following question: “How many of those lost buy-ins?”. In-line, no-limit Hold’em a buy-in of 100 big blinds on the table. I’ve been playing with blinds of $ 3 – $ 6, hence, the whole buy-ins were my whole stack, and I simply went bankrupt. I’ve met a lot of players who are that way and manage their bankroll (note I did when playing online for the first time). Then they are usually blamed their failures on the fortune or the ill-fated site, completely forgetting about winning outs, decide never to play, loudly claiming that online poker – is a fraud.

In fact, the outcome of your game 100% depends on if you play within your bankroll. Frankly speaking, bad beats will happen and you fail. However, through proper management of your business capital, we can ensure that a monster called the wobble will be quite harmless, though annoying phenomenon.

In the above example, I played at that level the blinds, which I completely let my bankroll, namely 25 No Limit Hold’em .50, with a maximum buy-in of $ 50. Consequently, the two “worst” bad bits cost me $ 100, and this, in turn, is little more than 8% of my bankroll. I am naturally not happy shock, but still, nice to know some small part of the bankroll, I lost.

And how to determine the level of the game according to your bankroll? In his new book, “Harrington on poker commercial”. Dan Harrington tells in no limit games to divide your bankroll into 20 equal parts and play the limit, which enables you to make a full buy-in by each of the these parts. For example, if you have $ 2,000, you should start with 50 on the first level, therefore, every buy-in is $ 100. I’d add, for no-limit games are also suitable formula for calculating the next buy-in – 1 / 20.

Next Harrington recommends raising the limits, if your new bankroll at the next limit allows to generate 50% more buy-ins. The quality of the game also will rise, you will be hard to beat. So in our example, you can go up to 1-2 levels, with buy-in of $ 200 when your bankroll will be $ 6,000, you can pick up a buy-in to 30. This, in turn, will help you adjust the game and prevent a sharp reduction in your stack.

On the other hand, Harrington advises lower level as soon as you lose 50% of your stack. It may seem risky, however, his words are not devoid of common sense.

As I said in the online games I was most pleased with the opportunity to play in tournaments, without risking your bankroll, it is natural it comes to freerolls. I recommend immediately estimate the amount of gain with respect to time, otherwise you will repeat the feat Chris Ferguson  , who in the casino Chasing the tournament with a limit of $ 0 – $ 10,000 spent 4-5 hours and earned only $ 2 if you need practice , do not think about time. Many participants are trying to play in the satellites, in order to get into big tournaments such as Poker Stars Sunday Million, WCOOP, or decide to try his luck in freerolls, which will open doors for them in the main event World Series of Poker, in which case the elapsed time and energy entirely justified.

If you want to turn poker into a business, you need to understand what exactly you specialize in any game you have no equal. Even if there is an irresistible desire to be a jack of all trades and benefit from any advantageous situation, you should still focus on those aspects that affect the bank. For example, I realized that most often win in the unlimited turbo tournaments, regardless of the number of tables and up to 180 participants. It turned out that I’m pretty quiet and waited maniacs at the same time, aggressively strive for victory. On the other hand, I know from personal experience that all games in Omaha, lead to permanent loss and damages. I tried to correct this situation, playing HORSE, but did not spend too much time and money, realizing that I just do not Omaha in the teeth.

Finally, it is important to decide when you’re ready to take the money out of your already impressive in size, bankroll, and that they spend. May decide to invest it somewhere, just pobaluete itself, or a soul mate. If you do not spend the money won, such as entertainment, I assure you after a while it will negatively affect your game, which will inevitably deteriorate.

In my first, and not a very good introduction to online poker, I flatly refused to withdraw the money won and subsequently lost it all. Now, I consciously tidy up some of my winnings off the table if I play poorly, thus forcing a return to lower rates and catch up. I’ve done it twice and each time I managed to get the money back within a week.

Most likely, many of you will be outraged that this is nothing like gambling.

In my opinion, the beginning of any business – it’s gambling, especially when you realize that 90% of any small business is doomed to failure. But successful people think through the plan, which at times increases the chances of winning. I think that poker is the same. The main thing you need to do is to keep everything under control, so that the poker business will grow and evolve for many years, becoming a source of not only income but also fun.

Legends of Poker, Huckleberry Seed

August 4th, 2011

Huckleberry Seed a unique person and unique champion. In a series of “Legends of Poker” We talked about many players, some of them were willing to be interviewed by our correspondent at any time, some avoided talking on his personal life as well as in their opinion, personal life and personal to you, that about it do not tell. Sid the second group. He’s really quiet before and unobtrusive, that most of the past is covered by a veil of secrecy. He rarely speaks about the past, trying to avoid the topic, in general, he rarely speaks. It would seem that everything is constantly at the table talking, Sid – No, he can talk for hours without saying a word, in his opinion, a player’s cards say.
Sid was born in Corvallis, Montana, January 15, 1969. Of course, that having a growth of 2 meters, Sid worked basketball. But high growth is not a guarantee of a good game of basketball, in general, it turned out that Sid is also involved in athletics. In 1987 Sid was in the state team in basketball, but he did not have the slightest desire to continue to play for the college. Get in the team, even a small state like Montana – an undoubted success. Usually in such cases, immediately followed by offers from various universities to play for their team. Sid just needed a university to study, and not for sport. He became interested in playing poker for two years of study at the California Institute of Technology, or as he says, during the “break of two years”, in general, it is not important, more importantly, he was a very apt pupil.
Many of the champions had to wait for years the first major victory. Sid had better luck. In 1989 he began playing professionally, and in 1990 he was lucky. Then he won a $ 300 no-limit tournament at Super Stars of Poker at Tahoe, and won the first prize of $ 30.240. If, after this victory, Sid can still be thought to continue their education, these thoughts did not go to him more after he finished fourth in another couple of tournaments, thereby winning the $ 32,000. Already in 1990, having played only one year, Sid won almost $ 110,000.
He continued to drive in tournaments, especially in a series of WSOP. In 1994 he won his first bracelet for winning the tournament in Pot-Limit Hold’em with buy-in of $ 2,500. This victory, he showed everyone that can win not only in no-limit hold’em. From 1990-1995 he managed to take top places in 11 tournaments, WSOP, six of which he took part in the final. Do not forget that all the achievements of a player who started playing seriously only in 1989. In 1995 he entered his name WSOP history and was not going to stop there.
In 1996, Sid has paid a registration fee of $ 10,000 for the Main Event. So did another 294 players hoping to win the first prize of $ 1 million. Despite the fact that up to this point in his credit has already been successful in a series of WSOP, Cid, but have never managed to win big. The biggest gain was $ 167.000 for the victory in one of the tournaments. For two tables to the final two remaining in the tournament champion at the time flew past (Dan Herrington (Dan Harrington) and Barry Johnson (Berry Johnston)). The final table together such eminent players as Al Tran (An “The Boss” Tran), Maine Ngen (Men “The Master Nquyen), John Bonetti (John Bonetti). Cid could beat them all, besides he beat another, and Bruce Van Horn (Bruce Van Horn) and headed home the winner.
Despite all the victories, trophies and who have made a total of almost five million dollars, Sid positioned player in the cache. Said that the preference for cash games, because in this game you can play for hours with the same opponents. Not looking at the problem of tournament poker, Sid went on to win tournaments, he won two bracelets WSOP, one in 2000 in the $ 1,500 Razz tournament, the other – in 2003 in the $ 5,000 Razz tournament is also on.
If you do not take into account Ted Forrest (Ted Forrest), Sid then be the most well-known debater in poker. Here are examples of his most famous wager:
Sid bet by one player to be able one day to collect 100 points four times in golf in the fields of Las Vegas. The trick was that he was permitted to use five types of iron clubs, a device for playing in the sand and a short stick. Another feature of the dispute was that suggested the dispute was to choose his day job. Was chosen as the hottest day, when temperatures in the desert called Las Vegas reached 50 degrees Celsius. Nobody knows how many wins Sid in the dispute, but as far as is known, six-figure sum was.
Another well-known betting has been concluded with Phil Hellmuth (Phil Hellmuth) and lay in the fact that Sid had to spend 18 hours in the ocean up to their necks in water. Argued for $ 50,000. Sid thought he performs this task with ease, but three hours later he came ashore. Half of the money he was able to prosporennyh play in the same evening. He won in a pool of nine balls Hellmuth in a game with a contribution of $ 2,000.
Sid almost won the argument, that he could not shave for a year, but the sudden death of a member of his family has adjusted to this bet. Sid had to lose a few months before the expected payoff as could not attend the funeral unshaven. He then argued with several of his fellow poker players, is still unknown which one of them demanded a fee for the dispute and who is – no. Sid liked the dispute, and he even let his beard then, because in this guise it has often been compared to Abraham Lincoln.
The most recent success was Sid finish in seventh place in today’s $ 50,000 HORSE tournament. He won $ 284.160.
Now Sid’s little victories in the tournament, all because he mostly prefers cash games. But from time to time he still makes itself felt in the major annual tournaments. More than half the time he spends playing in local casinos and the Internet.

I shall not change the blackjack!

March 25th, 2011

Ggoal is a browser game football based on real-time policy management. Basically, what the development team offers with this game is like a chessboard where our parts (players) move, pass, block, shot on goal, etc. Each game consists of 45 laps (10-15 minutes depending on the speed contenders plan their travel), and each tower is in turn divided into two parts: the first is one in which both players plan is then actually performed by players in the second half. Planning and resolution are achieved simultaneously for both players will start a strategic mechanism in which everyone tries to anticipate the opponent.

     But if Ggoal was simple to reduced set of chess, each player has its own characteristics, which are more or less good at something. Features include: recording, processing, pass, shoot and run. Scores associated with these five characteristics by introducing a random component to provide additional depth to the game useful each user has a team composed of himself and five other players who can maneuver. Thus, the user is both the player on the field or entered? For the currently the only source of income for the team is represented by the signs, they said that it had not yet decided on the form (for example, a store of cash, subscription, or other). So for the moment is 100% free.

You already see the groundwork for future development in the sense that management is lacking right now. As you can already guess from this photo there are implementations for the stadium, and is rumored to be set? Worked by the staff (so be prepared, masseurs, etc…) When I received the email announcing the release of Ggoal, “Oh! Another real time football game, how boring!” Do I to change my mind? I told myself, “No, the project is really original, and still fancy.” my promise!

Join in and you will have fun!

New World computer

October 26th, 2010

Game for the normal version of the software as a popular, if your computer the best games have not tried the demo, technology, graphics, games, generation platform processor technology, the infrastructure and the innovative design of computer games, saw one in 2006 In the game, the development of computer games more positive trend, updating the increase small game of about thirty years ago today. All forms and borders to the screen for video, film and entertainment now again in a numbers game, like life, or many people today ‘find games computer more difficult and promising new technologies to enable software up to date on the computer game software sales in the short time should become large enterprises, the impact of gambling games, the player in the first person to make a significant contribution to the Germany and the development of national broadband to play online games, such as the Korean game online (Large Gozu Siren Nansen) became the national sport is very popular party game called No Line had never seen before and love of the game (or perhaps before), international competition has always been fought online and try to outwit, won a vast network in the world game is a very difficult and intense Debian GNU / Linux can be used to design of a single artists, musicians and Industry games current team, making the game will work together to provide the best, should find a good game the best talent to support the industry and market conditions can not be higher in the five basis points, advice, the Spain, in my opinion can not be continuous and almost nowhere to be used as raw material in the industry, a wide range of exciting games, has won numerous enough to encourage innovative new computer game designer and go, people know what is strange to play a match in the future.

Find the Best Online Casinos

June 18th, 2010

In the modern world of internet technology, playing gambling doesn’t require people to leave the comfort of their homes to gamble. Online casinos have made gambling very convenient as it only requires you to have internet connectivity and play the casino games with other people for different parts of the world. Amazingly, the casinos are open for all people after some payment or entirely for free. What worries most people is finding the best casino online to have you enjoy the games.

How do you get the best online casinos? First, it is better if you define the casino game of chance that you would want to play. It is true that many of the casinos online have variety o f options for gambling lovers. However, it is advisable to set your mind on the specific type of casino game you would like to play. For instance, you could pick black jack, baccarat, craps, and keno among other online games.

Secondly, get to know the kind of gambling you want to involve in and this should be determined by the money you have at you disposal. nevertheless, you could still make you mind to play free online casino games. It is better that most online casinos have both options for their players.

All said and done, go to the third step that will require you to establish the locations and reviews of online casinos. Sometimes this might really be hectic but never be worried for there are many search engines that will easily get you to the site of these casinos. If for instance you start your search by typing in the word casino online or online casino, there are many options that will be displayed on your computer screen. Try opening the sites one by one until you get to the best casino with greater offers. Remember, most of the best online casinos are normally found at the top of the searched pages.

While on the casino site of your preferred online casino, check the combinations of games offered and the instructions on how to play the games. Have a try of some of the games as you follow the instructions given, do this to know whether the online casino is really genuine or not as there are some online casinos for fraudsters. The best casino will give you all help options for playing the games and the subsequent option for asking questions online.

When everything is determined and the sincerity of the online casino established, then choose the way that is best for you to play the game. If you choose to play the paid game, ensure that you have a credit card in order to make a bet. Without a credit card you will not be allowed to play the paid games which means that you will have to go for the free games option.