As I was rushing home to make the start of the event, I received a cell call that appeared to be from Roxana, Ted Forrest’s girlfriend. I said hello and was surprised to hear Ted’s voice....
#338 - FTOPS #8 - The Live Blog
This is my attempt to play and blog Event #8, $120 + $9 NLHE KO. I will keep all my posts of the event in this entry, with the most recent just below this introduction: 2:28 PM - And then...
Mike Matusow joins instructor roster at PokerSavvy+
Online poker training service PokerSavvy+ announced a major addition to their coaching roster last week - none other than well-known poker professional Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow. Matusow joins the already impressive roster over at PS+, including Ansky, WPTHero, Fisherman, Ike and Tribefan9. Matusow’s move marks ��...full article
Online poker training service PokerSavvy+ announced a major addition to their coaching roster last week - none other than well-known poker professional Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow.
Matusow joins the already impressive roster over at PS+, including Ansky, WPTHero, Fisherman, Ike and Tribefan9. Matusow’s move marks one of the first instances of a so-called ‘live’ pro venturing into instructional video territory, which has largely been the province of ‘online’ pros to this point.
PokerSavvy+ offers users a free 7 day trial of their service. Check out PS+ here.
Bay Area card room looks to expand
According to a story published today by local newspaper The Argus, Bay Area card room The Palace Card Club is seeking to expand, with plans to double the club’s current capacity of eight tables. The proposal is apparently meeting with resistance from local officials and community ��...full article
According to a story published today by local newspaper The Argus, Bay Area card room The Palace Card Club is seeking to expand, with plans to double the club’s current capacity of eight tables.
The proposal is apparently meeting with resistance from local officials and community groups. Excerpt from The Argus:
The 24-hour poker club is in cramped quarters on Mission just south of D Street. The relocation application seeks to move the venue to Foothill near San Lorenzo Creek and double the number of gaming tables from eight to 16, as well as increase the number of players per table from eight to 10.
The proposal also outlines plans for a bar with food services. The card club would be open at all hours, seven days a week, according to the application.
Mayor Mike Sweeney said he has not seen the application but that he would be concerned about any plans to expand the establishment’s gambling operations downtown.
“That would be a very large operation,” he said of the Foothill building. “I don’t see how that would be good for the city.”
PokerScout: DoingPoker utilizing bots to boost traffic?
Popular player traffic reporting site PokerScout ran a piece earlier this week about their suspicions regarding the use of bots at online poker room Doing Poker. Doing Poker is a new room that is not part of a network. PokerScout was careful to note that the suspicions ��...full article
Popular player traffic reporting site PokerScout ran a piece earlier this week about their suspicions regarding the use of bots at online poker room Doing Poker.
Doing Poker is a new room that is not part of a network.
PokerScout was careful to note that the suspicions were just that - suspicions based on observation of what PS considered unusual traffic patterns at DoingPoker. PokerScout lays out a fairly compelling case in the article. Excerpt:
Some players may consider the use of bots to be a harmless extension of the concept of proposition players, or props. Most players have no problem with playing against human props, but not everyone is comfortable playing against robots, especially when those robots are programmed and managed by the house.
Even if the bots are not cheating and are easy to beat, there is another thing to consider. A site which has almost no real players also has very little cash flow, and may have difficulty paying the players who do win. This is especially true when any money won on the site is likely to have been lost by the site’s robot players. In other words, unlike every other poker site, at DoingPoker the players are playing against the house, giving the house even more incentive not to pay out. There has been at least one unsubstantiated claim that the site refused to pay out winnings to a player.
As stated above, the existence or non-existence of bots cannot be conclusively proven by observation. Players are urged to do their own investigation and to use caution when deciding to play at a new site.
DoingPoker responded to an email from PoekrScout and denied the use of non-human players on their site. Excerpt:
DoingPoker.com has not been officially launched yet. We are still testing our software and for that purpose we have both modes available, play money and real cash. We have a testing facility that gives jobs to a lot of people and those we use, for playing money mode and also real cash games as well. We also use our own programmers in India, programmers in China and friends to help us test our software. Most of the people we have playing are not that much of poker savvy, but we get great feed back. DoingPoker.com does not have any kind of Bots as mentioned in your email to fill in spaces.
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