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Learning Basic Poker Odds with Basic Poker Strategy

Robert Stiller — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:45:00 +0000

Learning Basic Poker Odds with Basic Poker Strategy
Understand the basic odds associated with playing poker. Poker Strategy for doing so, including helpful tips, is featured here. ^Don’t be afraid of odds. Get to know them here with this helpful poker strategy guide, and have a better understanding of your chances in the game. ^David McLaren^^Poker Strategy for Understanding Basic Odds When Playing^Knowing your winning chances

18 new poker chip reviews!

Robert Stiller — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:31:04 +0000

18 new poker chip reviews!
I posted 18 new reviews of poker chips. Please visit the List of Poker Product Reviews page for more info.Coming soon … a half dozen new playing card reviews!

HPT Giveaway #35 – 2 decks of plastic playing cards!
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Reasons to Regulate Online Poker

Robert Stiller — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:45:03 +0000

Recently, in 2006, the United States enacted legislation, known as the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act), which essentially made it unlawful for any American Poker player to fund an online Poker site with money to be used in Poker gambling. There are many reasons as to why this detrimental law should be reversed, and why the U.S. government should consider regulating Online Poker. Here are a few central ideas:

The UIGEA was literally tacked on as a last minute rider to a Ports bill, which was destined to pass. The UIGEA was added to ths bill, which was signed by President Bush, about 20 minutes prior to the Port bills Congress vote. The UIGEA was never discussed or debated in Congress, and was voted on from its original draft, which has many, many holes in it.

The UIGEA unfairly puts the onus on its implementation on the U.S. Banking system. It makes banks responsible and culpable for identifying and stopping checks and internet bank transfers that are gambling-related. Specifically, the UIGEA does not clearly delineate what a gambling transaction is and isn’t. The banking system is currently ill-equipped with the necessary man-power to implement such a vague law, and has been blunt in stating that it would take many years to implement a correct system that could identify offending transactions, without inadvertently halting benign transactions. Further, the UIGEA is requiring the banking system to implement this law on its own time (i.e., for no payment), and assume the culpability of its actions. Given the recent turmoil in the U.S. banking system, it makes absolutely no sense for the banking industry to be spending its time devising a plan to implement a law that is full of crevices, especially when there are infinitely more pressing needs that the banking system must reckon with these days.

Now, for the hypocrisy argument – the U.S. government says that online Poker is illegal, when accounts are funded for the purposes of gambling, but it is totally legal and permissible to play state lotteries, wager for online horse-racing, and bet on fantasy sports online. Why on earth are lotteries deemed to be legal (when, in fact, they are totally left to chance), when a game of skill (Poker) is deemed to be illegal and immoral, as stated by the proponents of the UIGEA. It just makes no sense. Anyone who plays Poker knows that there is an inherent chance element associated with the game, but it is largely a game of skill (akin to Chess).

We are currently running the biggest government deficit in American history, courtesy the Bush Administration, and the National Debt will have increased from 5 BB to 9.5 BB under George Bush’s watch (that over a 90 % increase). Regulation of online Poker could bring a significant windfall to the U.S. government, that would certainly have a positive impact on lowering the budget deficit and slowing down the ballooning National debt. There are many who have suggested how to implement taxing online Poker, and we could surely learn from our friends in the U.K., who are already doing this.

There are many (this author included) who believe that the reason the U.S. government is not regulating internet-based Poker, is the strong Las Vegas casino lobbyists (who believe online Poker is hurting their business), and those that believe that Las Vegas is planning their strategy of going online at some point as well. The lawmakers who engineered UIGEA believe that elimination of non-US-based online Poker, will help pave the way for land-based casinos to enter this market, and will help eradicate any international competition that might otherwise exist.

Other proponents of the UIGEA argue that online Poker encourages underage gambling, which destroys the fabric of American society. Nothing could be further from the truth, and the sophistication of technology currently exists that would enable online Poker websites to prohibit the patronage of underage customers.

Finally, how is it that the American government can tell its U.S. citizens how they can spend their own money ? There is a serious Freedom of Speech issue at stake here. Further, the internet shows no geographical boundaries, and by prohibiting citizens from playing on an online Poker site that is physically located in another country, this demonstrates that the U.S. government feels no remorse in telling its constituency what websites it can and cannot frequent. If the U.S. government is not going to allow online Poker sites from being accesses, then maybe, just maybe, we should eliminate any websites that cater to alcohol, tobacco, sex, credit cards, etc., etc., etc. Why stop at online Poker ?

In summary, there are many, many reasons to repeal the UIGEA, and permit online Poker to be played. Hopefully, the next governmental regime will see the light, and reverse the stupidity and short-sightedness imposed by the current administration.

Poker Calculator Report: Poker Spy 2 Lacks the Steak and Sizzle

Robert Stiller — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:45:04 +0000

Poker-Spy has been around for longer than most other poker calculators and quietly ushered in the classification of empirical poker calculators. That being the type that offered you not only poker odds and drawing information while extracting the pertinent data from your poker screen, but also keeping track of you and your opponent’s profiles. In fact, with Poker-Spy, profiling becomes the main thrust of this software along with hand history data to use during and after your game. While playing, Poker-Spy devised a readable hand history grid that progresses until all action for the most recent 17 hands are displayed with the winner and amount of the pot, while reminding you of your hole cards and those of any opponents that were revealed during play. Within this grid, you can click on any of those hands (they are numbered for easy reference) that occurred for more detailed betting, position, and pot information. The cross grid panel illuminates by way of background color extra information too, offering up data showing which players were not in the hand, pre-flopped raised, or simply saw the flop. Now all of these grid sections and squares can be a little confusing at first, but I think Poker-Spy does a nice job here of making this data quite clear and understandable. In cash and ring games, it also classifies your opponent into the classic poker player profile grid first described by Dr. Alan Schoonmaker, in his book the Psychology of Poker – as in Loose-Passive and Tight-Aggressive etc. While hand play is in progress at your table, Poker-Spy created the patent pending Alert System that with tiny, numbered and colored circles adjacent to the players name within the Poker-Spy tracking grid, you can quickly view what Poker-Spy has deemed “questionable” play from your opponents. These visual aids help you quickly discern plays such as blind plays, out-of-position moves, or re-raises perhaps. The extent that such plays are made numerous times is represented within those circles by a corresponding digit clearly visible. The data itself is further transformed into a database of hand history analysis that you may find yourself poring over to find out things like, what hand you play that has won you the most money, or lost you’re the most money. What position at the table is most or least profitable for you? Your pre-flop and post-flop play is also measured statistically for your own benefit as well. These reports of you and opponents you have played against are managed in the hand summary report, the hand analysis report, and the player report. In a substantial way, Poker-Spy`s value lays within these reports which have done well by this program in the growing days of online poker. I personally recommended this software nearly two years ago now, but let`s fast forward to Poker-Spy 2.0 which was recently updated with a few new features, albeit hard to find as they were. I was rather enthused about the update when Poker-Spy contacted me for another review, but when playing with the software, I had to look really closely to actually find the improvements. One of the improvements is a new set of alert indicators that include possible river bluffs made by your opponents. This is a feature that could be useful to new players, although it doesn’t offer any clue as to what your opponent has, the make-up of the board and the tendency of your opponent contribute to this marker. The other new feature in Poker-Spy is an addition to the extensive reports that includes pre-flop play in many different categories including position, raises and re-raises, and hole card strength. Although Poker-Spy paved the way for some in-depth analysis of a poker player`s weaknesses, other programs have certainly tripled up on what seems to be a slow, but methodical progression to Poker-Spy. Truly I expected far more for a major update in terms of its poker calculator functions and its potential to work with other software simultaneously. In fact, I now fear that Poker-Spy is suffering from over-programming without sufficient poker-player input. The designers at Poker-Spy have never really been aggressive marketers of the software and I think this inhibits some of the feedback that they might otherwise be getting from a field of affiliates more attuned to the game and the what the players are interested in – in terms of poker calculators. You can even get a sense for this lack of ambition in the presentation of the Poker-Spy website which really in its present day mock-up, could be a grand relic of the waybackmachine. With all that said, Poker-Spy2 has actually dropped to 2 of 4 aces in the Poker Calculator Report value ranking. Not because Poker-Spy2 isn`t better than the original Poker-Spy, but because it`s features and operating program are now clearly behind several other empirical poker calculator products and self analysis software programs.

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Robert Stiller — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:00:11 +0000

Seventeen Remain In Foxwoods Poker Classic Championship – Pokerpages.com
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Geographical Profiling for poker player tendencies (College strip poker)

Robert Stiller — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:30:10 +0000

Geographical Profiling for poker player tendencies
I recently went back to playing tournaments and cash games at Full Tilt Poker. Since I started again, I see a strong international presence at the tables. After about 10k hands, I started to see identical betting patterns by players from the same country. I hate to generalize, but I [...]

Strip poker stories – Fake cop case in Jamaica leads to gambling scheme, CB – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com

Robert Stiller — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:00:07 +0000

Fake cop case in Jamaica leads to gambling scheme, CB – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com
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Gaming rules change as Facebook lures 200m with poker and pets – Financial Times
Gaming rules change as Facebook lures 200m with poker and petsFinancial Times, UKIt is closing on 200m active members and its most popular application installed by users is a game – Texas Hold ‘em Poker – played by 11m people. You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you wish to view more, click the [...]Click here to play

Lawmakers In Alabama Contradictory Over Gambling Laws In State – Casino Gambling Web
Casino watch dog, known as eCOGRA regulates online casinos and even flash casino site where no download and no deposit is required to play online casino. al.com Lawmakers In Alabama Contradictory Over Gambling Laws In StateCasino Gambling Web, FLIf lawmakers in the state of Alabama cannot come to a unified conclusion as to the legality of electronic gambling [...]Click here to play

Fake cop case in Jamaica leads to gambling scheme, CB – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com (Strip poker professional)

Robert Stiller — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:15:18 +0000

PartyGaming To Launch Online Poker Ops In Italy For Intralot – Wall Street Journal
stv.tv PartyGaming To Launch Online Poker Ops In Italy For IntralotWall Street JournalLN) said Monday it has signed an agreement to launch an online poker tournament service in Italy for Intralot SA (INLOT.AT) of Greece, and flagged similiar deals were likely. Intralot becomes the first member of PartyGaming’s poker network in Italy. …PartyGaming in Italy joint [...]Click here to play

Shoutbox & Chat (Java strip poker)

Robert Stiller — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:00:05 +0000

Shoutbox & Chat
I installed a 'Shoutbox' at the top of the main forum page.I installed a 'Chat' page here … http://forums.homepokertourney.com/chat/index.php.I will test these new features for a day or two before I modify the colors and location on the page. …

Free Poker Money at Titan (Playboy strip poker) Poker

Robert Stiller — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:00:08 +0000

Free Poker Money at Titan Poker
This free poker bonus is from PokerNetOnline who have been giving out free bankrolls at Titan Poker for a few years now. PokerNetOnline (PNO) give out 200 bankrolls of $50 each day to new players at Titan Poker. This free offer is probably one of the easiest to claim of the many free bankrolls offered at Titan [...]