tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49133562531296456522024-09-14T08:17:45.118-07:00Poker and LifeRandomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16717135735468944330noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913356253129645652.post-67319594485961457242007-08-06T18:18:00.000-07:002007-08-06T19:13:59.327-07:00

Duplicate Poker is an interesting experiment that just went commercial. The game idea is pretty simple: players sit in two or more tables. Each player receives the same hole cards as the other players which are sitting in his same position in the other tables (e.g. all players in sit #1), the community cards are also identical. Players bet as in any other No Limit Hold'em game, however, in the

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(Sorry it toke so long guys and girls - first week of Uni and all)So the final table for the 2 day event was set to go.We gathered around for the press release photo:(Second from the right with the scarf)And then it was time to shuffle up and deal.Since it toke us so long to get to the final table, the blinds were already at 20,000 and 40,000; so with the chip leader (myself) being on 470,000 in

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On Sunday I finished the extremely fun and highly rewarding (although somewhat exhausting) experience of a multi-day tournament.750 starters, who qualified for this $20,000 tournament by being the best at their respective venues consistently over a period of three months. We started out with 2,500 in chips and 25/50 blinds.The first day (which I wrote about here) went by quite slowly, because of

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The results came through for the little (read: $50,000) match-up between Phil Laak, Ali Eslami and the poker playing AI program 'Polaris' (reported here)First you might be glad to know that the humans won, but it was a close one. The players played four sessions each played simultaneously in separated rooms. Each of the players received the cards Polaris was getting in the other room and vise

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After I busted out on the bubble in a small tournament yesterday, an acquaintance of mine (a regular at that tournament) asked me why did I play so many hands on the bubble when I was second in chips? In his experience, one should tighten up and not play anything but monsters and wait for either the 3rd or 4th in chips to bust out. Obviously that reasoning is sound, but I disagree with it both

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If anyone remembers, a few years back there was a chess match where a chess champion took on a computer program called 'Deep blue' as an experiment in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Now a team of scientists took up a harder challenge, getting a program to play a game of 'imperfect knowledge' a.k.a limit holdem.From the University of Alberta website:"A team of computer science researchers at the

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of playing in a multi-day invitational tournament. 750 of the best players from New South Wales (Australia) - out of about 6000 - playing for a $20,000 prize pool over two days.What I found was that even the best players sometimes sacrifice their game and tighten up because they are so bent on making it to the final day. While I played my usual game, I was able to

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The ESPN coverage of the World Series of Poker does cover the idea of the tournament - that is to say the 'name' players, verbal banter, emotional peaks and crushed players. But what it does not cover- is poker.I understand that there is only a short time (about 45 minutes) to cover sometimes ten or thirteen hours of play. However, it must still be possible to show other hands then only the

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I started this blog to write mostly about poker and a little about life.I'll try to share the insights and ideas I have and will get along the way. Please feel free to add you're two bits as well or even start a discussion.- Random -

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