Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Playing Poker Online

Nowadays playing Poker online has become a popular hobby. Thanks to technological advance and Internet in particular, one can enjoy various games even without leaving his favorite sofa. Just choose the most appropriate site and enjoy your game. Moreover, if you have never tried to play cards or any other games, there are a lot of various sites which offer you to learn different strategies. Of course, it doesn't mean that you will win every game, but it helps you to create your own strategies and tips as well. Various forums and chats provide you with the opportunity to find like-minded people with whom you can discuss the latest news in the world of gambling and just choose the people with whom to play online. And of course, don't forget that it is just a game. So, enjoy it!

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Poker Online News.

Poker champion Phil Laak is going to win when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold'em -- against a computer.


It's only a matter of time before machines take a commanding lead in the war for poker supremacy.

It may be the last chance he gets. Computers have gotten a lot better at poker in recent years; they're good enough now to challenge top professionals like Laak, who won the World Poker Tour invitational in 2004.

But it's only a matter of time before the machines take a commanding lead in the war for poker supremacy. Just as they already have in backgammon, checkers and chess, computers are expected to surpass even the best human poker players within a decade. They can already beat virtually any amateur player.

"This match is extremely important, because it's the first time there's going to be a man-machine event where there's going to be a scientific component," said University of Alberta computing science professor Jonathan Schaeffer.

The Canadian university's games research group is considered the best of its kind in the world. After defeating an Alberta-designed program several years ago, Laak was so impressed that he estimated his edge at a mere 5 percent. He figures he would have lost if the researchers hadn't let him examine the programming code and practice against the machine ahead of time.

"This robot is going to do just fine," Laak predicted.

The Alberta researchers have endowed the $50,000 contest with an ingenious design, making this the first man-machine contest to eliminate the luck of the draw as much as possible.

Laak will play with a partner, fellow pro Ali Eslami. The two will be in separate rooms, and their games will be mirror images of one another, with Eslami getting the cards that the computer received in its hands against Laak, and vice versa.

That way, a lousy hand for one human player will result in a correspondingly strong hand for his partner in the other room. At the end of the tournament the chips of both humans will be added together and compared to the computer's.

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The two-day contest, beginning Monday, takes place not at a casino, but at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Vancouver, British Columbia. Researchers in the field have taken an increasing interest in poker over the past few years because one of the biggest problems they face is how to deal with uncertainty and incomplete information.

"You don't have perfect information about what state the game is in, and particularly what cards your opponent has in his hand," said Dana S. Nau, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland in College Park. "That means when an opponent does something, you can't be sure why."

As a result, it is much harder for computer programmers to teach computers to play poker than other games. In chess, checkers and backgammon, every contest starts the same way, then evolves through an enormous, but finite, number of possible states according to a consistent set of rules. With enough computing power, a computer could simply build a tree with a branch representing every possible future move in the game, then choose the one that leads most directly to victory.

That's essentially the strategy IBM's Deep Blue computer used to defeat chess champion Gary Kasparov in their famous 1997 match. No computer can calculate every single possible move in a chess game, but today's best chess programs can see an astounding 18 moves ahead.

Yet poker involves not just myriad possibilities but uncertainty, both about what cards the opponent is holding and more importantly, how he is going to play them.

"It's mandatory for you to understand how the other guy approaches the game. This is critical information in poker, and it's not true of any of these other games that we've studied in academia," said Darse Billings, a recent Alberta Ph.D. who has worked on the robot for 15 years -- except for a three-year break to play poker professionally.

The game-tree approach doesn't work in poker because in many situations there is no one best move. There isn't even a best strategy. A top-notch player adapts his play over time, exploiting his opponent's behavior. He bluffs against the timid and proceeds cautiously when players who only raise on the strongest hands are betting the limit. He learns how to vary his own strategy so others can't take advantage of him.

That kind of insight is very hard to program into a computer. You can't just give the machine some rules to follow, because any reasonably competent human player will quickly intuit what the computer is going to do in various situations.

"What makes poker interesting is that there is not a magic recipe," Schaeffer said.

In fact, the simplest poker-playing programs fail because they are just a recipe, a set of rules telling the computer what to do based on the strength of its hand. A savvy opponent can soon gauge what cards the computer is holding based on how aggressively it is betting.

That's how Laak was able to defeat a program called Poker Probot in a contest two years ago in Las Vegas. As the match progressed Laak correctly intuited that the computer was playing a consistently aggressive game, and capitalized on that observation by adapting his own play.

Programmers can eliminate some of that weakness with game theory, a branch of mathematics pioneered by John von Neumann, who also helped develop the hydrogen bomb. In 1950 mathematician John Nash, whose life inspired the movie "A Beautiful Mind," showed that in certain games there is a set of strategies such that every player's return is maximized and no player would benefit from switching to a different strategy.

In the simple game "Rock, Paper, Scissors," for example, the best strategy is to randomly select each of the options an equal proportion of the time. If any player diverted from that strategy by following a pattern or favoring one option over, the others would soon notice and adapt their own play to take advantage of it.

Texas Hold 'em is a little more complicated than "Rock, Paper, Scissors," but Nash's math still applies. With game theory, computers know to vary their play so an opponent has a hard time figuring out whether they are bluffing or employing some other strategy.

But game theory has inherent limits. In Nash equilibrium terms, success doesn't mean winning -- it means not losing.

"You basically compute a formula that can at least break even in the long run, no matter what your opponent does," Billings said.

That's about where the best poker programs are today. Though the best game theory-based programs can usually hold their own against world-class human poker players, they aren't good enough to win big consistently.

Squeezing that extra bit of performance out of a computer requires combining the sheer mathematical power of game theory with the ability to observe an opponent's play and adapt to it. Many legendary poker players do that by being experts of human nature. They quickly learn the tics, gestures and other "tells" that reveal exactly what another player is up to.

A computer can't detect those, but it can keep track of how an opponent plays the game. It can observe how often an opponent tries to bluff with a weak hand, and how often she folds. Then the computer can take that information and incorporate it into the calculations that guide its own game.

"The notion of forming some sort of model of what another player is like ... is a really important problem," Nau said.

Computer scientists are only just beginning to incorporate that ability into their programs; days before their contest with Laak and Eslami, the University of Alberta researchers are still trying to tweak their program's adaptive elements. Billings will say only this about what the humans have in store: "They will be guaranteed to be seeing a lot of different styles."

Even so, Laak and Eslami are top-notch players with a deep understanding of poker's mathematical fundamentals. They should be able to keep up with the computer -- this time
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Is it legal to play poker online?

Internet poker players are raising the stakes in Washington, Assosiated Press reported.

Threatened by a federal law that restricts online gambling, the Poker Players Alliance, a two-year-old lobbying group that says it represents 800,000 poker enthusiasts nationwide, plans on pressing Congress this week to consider several new bills that would exempt poker from the law or regulate the gaming industry.

It's legal to play poker online, but the law made it illegal for U.S. banks and credit-card companies to process payments to online gambling businesses outside the United States. Supporters of the ban say Internet betting can be addictive and potentially drain people's savings.

But John Pappas, the group's executive director, said the law only forced several public British companies — such as PartyGaming PLC and 888 Holdings PLC — that had financial and age safeguards in place from the U.S. online poker market.

"The idea that we can kind of stop people from doing this seems a bit irrational," said Pappas, who estimates there are between 15 million to 23 million U.S. Internet poker players.

The group is flying in 100 members, including several poker champions, such as Chris Moneymaker, to lobby lawmakers Tuesday and Wednesday to get poker exempted from the law, which already excludes online horse races and lotteries and fantasy sports.

The group also backs a bill to license and regulate Internet gaming, in general. A small tax on online poker operators could net the government at least a couple of billion dollars in revenue, Pappas said.

Chaired by former New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and now lobbyist, the group has also upped its lobbying ante, spending $640,000 in the first six months this year, compared with $540,000 in all of 2006.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Poker the best.

Absolutely no doubt that Online Poker is one of the most attractive games, because it gives you ability to play your favorite poker, such as Texas Hold'Em, draw poker or Lowball in the comfort of your home against a large variety of players without any limit level and at any time. What do you need for?
You need just 2 required things to compete in online 'play' money rooms, your computer and internet access. Besides, beginners get very attractive options they can practice and hone their skills before graduating to 'real' money online play. Poker is extremely complicated game with intricate strategies, this is the most deeply intriguing thing to many and many. Befor you start playing one of the most popular games in the world be sure to read our detailed Online Casino Reviews, to check ratings and rankings.
Enjoy!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Start Poker.

If you have never played Poker I suppose that is worth to start to learn to, the more so, as it is not complicated at all. One has all reasons to do it because first of all the knack of playing Poker gives the chance to spend some quiet and undisturbed hours with the friendly chat, to distract one’s mind from the everyday care, getting pleasure and rest. By the way there is great number perfect online services offered free training online for both beginners and experienced players.

For instance Texas Hold’em is one of the most popular forms of poker and if you have never played cards before, you have to start with it. Texas Hold’em is the primary version of Poker played in many casinos, and it's the version seen on television shows like the Travel Channel's World Poker Tour and ESPN's World Series of Poker. And it’s absolutely not obligatory play for many, by no means. Just play for your pleasure.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Poker Blog Tournament

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Monday, September 17, 2007

Online 3 Card Poker.

If even you a beginner at online 3-card poker, it's never mind. Because if so you can try to play Pair-Plus three-card poker. Just place your bet and get your cards. All you need noe is just a pair to win! It doesn't even matter too what the dealer has; be sure if you have a pair, you win. If you have better than a pair, you win even more. Get a straight flush, and you'll win a wild 40-to-1 payout. That's fun!

It' is really great to play obline in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and you are playing at your own pace. Play at your own own pace.Incase you want to play If you want to play quickly, you don't have to wait for some dealer to shuffle and deal, the computer does it instantaneously. Play double your 3-card-poker and you minimize your risk and maximize your odds of winning.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

How to Play Real Money Poker.

Do you really want to start to play poker online? If you are beginner first of all
Rules you have to learn a little bit. Here is the Rules:
Player makes an Ante and/or Pairplus bet
The dealer gives each player three cards and himself three cards. The player may examine his own cards. The dealer's cards are dealt face down.
If the player made the Ante bet, then he has must either fold or raise.
If the player folds, then he forfeits his Ante wager.
If the player raises, then he must make an additional Play bet, equal exactly to his Ante bet.
The dealer will turn over his cards.
The dealer needs a queen high or better to qualify.
If the dealer does not qualify then the player will win even money on the Ante bet and the Play bet will push.
If the dealer qualifies, then the player's hand will be compared to the dealer's hand, the higher hand wins. The order of poker hands is indicated below.
If the player has the higher poker hand then the Ante and Play will both pay even money.
If the dealer has the higher poker hand then the Ante and Play will both lose.
If the player and dealer tie then the Ante and Play bets will push.
If the player made the Ante bet and has a straight or higher then the player will receive an Ante Bonus, regardless of the value of the dealer's hand.
The Pairplus bet will pay entirely based on the poker value of the player's hand, as shown in the Pairplus section below.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

I Challenge Myself With Las Vegas Online 3 Card Poker

There is a great Las Vegas online 3 card Poker in a 3 card Poker. One can bet as little as $1 and as high as one wants with Las Vegas online 3 card Poker and you have 5 spots you can play at but if you only want to play at one i.e. get dealt one set of cards that is also acceptable.
It is really very easy to place bets with Las Vegas online 3 card Poker, just make sure you use the quick deposit option and you can also get bonuses for that way. I consider every game of Las Vegas online 3 card Poker a challenge and I like to test myself against the computer to see if I am better. I used to think that the computer was programmed never to let you win too much but after playing a few games of online 3 card Poker I see that this is not so and you are able to beat the computer if you take the game and challenge seriously.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Play Online 3 Card Poker For Peace and Harmony

Don't spend your life worrying. Life is too short. My parents - god should rest their souls - did that. And I know they regretted it because on his death bed my dad said to me "Jim, enjoy life. Don't do what your mother and I did. Try not to worry. Be responsible and take care, but try to relax. Don't have regrets like we did." I spent a lot of time wondering exactly how to manifest that wish. And then I decided online 3 card poker would be a start. Whenever I played online 3 card poker I felt relaxed. Playing online 3 card poker made me happy too. And I for sure had an overall sense of peace and harmony when playing online 3 card poker. So perhaps my old dad would be smiling down at me if he saw me play online 3 card poker. It was certainly a start I thought, as I logged on to the game.

My wife immediately noticed the change in me since playing online 3 card poker. She said I was completely relaxed. I was a little surprised - almost offended - at the insinuation that prior to online 3 card poker I had not been so relaxed. "No honey," she tried to assure me. "You're just far more relaxed now than before. Not that you were uptight, but you are just more serene. And I love you even more." I supposed that was a good thing. Making the wife and the dead parents happy, all from online 3 card poker.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Join My Friends Who Play 3 Card Poker For Fun!

My friends and I rarely have time to actually physically meet. We have thus determined to meet regardless. The way we have chosen to meet is by visiting an on line casino together. At the on line casino we play 3 card poker for fun. This way we also get to meet and chat and we also get to have fun together. We chose to play 3 card poker for fun because we all agreed that 3 card poker is a great way to play and compete with one another. We play 3 card poker for fun because it is fun. It also serves as a platform for our weekly meetings.


We are a very open group. We are always interested in meeting new and interesting people. Thus, if you want to join us in friendly companionship, you are welcome to join us and play 3 card poker for fun with us. That is part of the fun when you play 3 card poker for fun. My friends and I are a wide variety of companions from all walks of life. You are certain to find an interesting person among us.

Monday, July 16, 2007

3 Card Poker Online is a Hybrid Combining Old and New

3 card poker online is one of the fastest-growing Internet card games. 3 card poker online is fast ? it combines the excitement of a classic card game with the speed of video poker. In fact, 3 card poker online is probably the fastest form of online video poker, perfect for anyone who doesn't have those extra few seconds that regular video poker demands. And it's easy to win at 3 card poker online; unlike regular poker, all you need is a pair (in the most basic form of 3 card poker).



3 card poker online comes in many forms. There's a more complicated 3 card poker online called Ante and Play, which may tax your brain a little more than the most elementary 3 card poker. You can play 3 card poker online with just about any payment system. You can also play 3 card poker online in flash form or downloadable form. And, of course, you can play 3 card poker online for free if I haven't yet convinced you that it's easy-shmeazy and if you still want to rehearse before you perform for real ? no need to get stage fright with 3 card poker online.

Monday, July 9, 2007

Where To Play 3 Card Poker Online

Melanie decided that she had to find a trustworthy casino on which to play 3 card poker online. She was sick and tired of almost getting in to trouble with her 3 card poker gaming and she knew that unless she could find a really honest, reliable casino on which to play 3 card poker online, then she would quit. Because the truth was, for Melanie, play 3 card poker online at a casino that could get her in to trouble, was not making her happy at all, and that was when she really sat down and asked herself, well then, what is the point? Melanie needed a casino on which to play 3 card poker online that would make her happy.

Thankfully, it just so happened, that Melanie's roommate had found a great, honest and potentially extremely lucrative casino on which to play 3 card poker online. She told Melanie about this casino and Melanie checked it out. Melanie could see straight away that she would be able to play 3 card poker online at this casino and that it was indeed very honest. But not only that; Melanie could also see that she could potentially get very rich if she did play 3 card poker online at this casino, so that was exactly what Melanie did!

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Passion of 3 Card Poker On Line Games

Playing 3 Card Poker On Line - to Win
Pete's theory is that if he does not feel that he has a reasonable chance of winning, he would not want to play. He plays 3 card poker on line games - in order to win. He obviously understands that he cannot win every time and I don't think that he would expect to. However, he must win sometimes or what is the point of playing? Yes, of course one enjoys excellent entertainment when playing 3 card poker - on line casino entertainment is great fun. But everyone wishes to feel that they have a realistic chance of winning.

Choose Microgaming 3 Card Poker On Line Games
I have to admit that I totally agree with Pete's theory. For that reason, both of us choose 3 card poker on line games that are powered by Microgaming software. Pete is aware that Microgaming are considered to have created the best software available in the casino field. He knows that if he plays his cards right at Microgaming 3 card poker on line games, he could be laughing all the way to the bank.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Enjoy Yourself When You Play 3 Card Poker

Do you like to play 3 card poker?
Are you one of tens of thousands of gamers who like to play 3 card poker on line? Do you want to hear about one of the tips for how to play 3 card poker successfully? Jack, a very successful gamer who likes to play 3 card poker has a tip he would like to share with anyone who wants to play 3 card poker. If you want to hear Jack's tip for how to play 3 card poker, read on!

A tip for how to play 3 card poker
A sizable element you have to deal with when you play 3 card poker is the bluff. This is something which is very difficult for novice players. That is why many of them who play 3 card poker have "tells"which can help an experienced player guess if they are bluffing or not. The way to hide these "tells" to a certain extent, is not to worry about the game. When you play 3 card poker, you need to tell yourself that it is just a game of little consequence. If you won't be worried when you play 3 card poker, you will play better and find it easier to bluff too.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Learn to Play 3 Card Poker!

Tons of new people play 3 card poker every year!
I really like to play 3 card poker! About two years ago a friend of mine introduced me to the game, and ever since then, I have been one satisfied customer. It is very easy to play 3 card poker, but I won't go into the rules here, simply because they can be found by doing a quick search on the web. This game is just so much fun to play! 3 card poker has only been around for about ten years, but in that time the game has spread like wildfire! Every year thousands of new people begin to play 3 card poker, and fall in love! Anybody who is looking for a challenge, or a new variation of poker should play 3 card poker. I'm telling you, the game is addictive. To play 3 card poker may seem very easy, but if you don't have the skill and learn the strategy, you may want to practice a bit before playing with the big dogs!

I loved to play 3 card poker from the very beginning!
From the day I went online to play 3 card poker, I never looked back! I always thought I loved playing regular poker, but I soon found that there is nothing more fun to me than to play 3 card poker! I kid you not!

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Better Gambling Fun? Play 3 Card Poker Here

Read why Jack likes to play 3 card poker through Microgaming

Jack loves to play 3 card poker. He has always been pretty good at winning his games too. But the thing for Jack is just having a good time and engaging in honest gambling on line. He knew that there are a lot of casinos out there on which to play 3 card poker that do not offer honest, safe gaming. But thankfully, at the cool Microgaming casino on which Jack has started to play 3 card poker, he knows that he can trust the gaming and everything else about the casino. That is important to Jack; in fact, just as important as it is to him to make money when he does play 3 card poker and win. Because money making is great, but unless you know you can play 3 card poker at an honest, safe casino, then all the fun is taken out of the game, for worrying.



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So if you are anything like Jack and you like to play 3 card poker for fun and also want to make sure that you are engaging in safe, honest gaming, then make sure you play 3 card poker at a Microgaming casino. Because you can just get so much more out of the Microgaming casino. And when you do play 3 card poker at the Microgaming casino, just check out the payout tables and see how well you can do financially too.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Want to Play 3 Card Poker? Play Here

Read why Mack was excited to play 3 card poker here

Mack was pretty excited ever since he had found the top rate, highest paying on line casino on which to play 3 card poker. Mack really liked to play 3 card poker and now that he had found a really good casino on which to play it, well, it was no wonder he was so excited. Of course, he had liked to play 3 card poker at all the other casinos, but there was something special about him being able to play 3 card poker at the casino offering really big bucks. There was just something more enticing and fun about play when you knew you would be getting paid better. That, in and of itself, somehow motivated Mack more when he started to play 3 card poker at that casino.



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Very quickly, Mack started making a lot of money in his NETELLER account. He had set up his free NETELLER account some time before, but since whenever he did play 3 card poker at a casino offering lower payouts he did not seem to win that much, he never saw such high bucks in his NETELLER account. Now, all that had changed. Now that he had found the perfect, highest paying casino on which to play 3 card poker, Mack could see that his NETELLER account was going to expand like crazy! And that really made him happy. If you want to play 3 card poker at the best casino, offering the best cash prizes and hugest financial incentives, play it here; play it through Microgaming.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Cruising and playing online 3 card poker

It's fun in the sun and online 3 card poker
Beverly and Blanche are not your typical senior citizens. They're 80-something widows who live life to the fullest. They enjoy traveling, belly dancing, and online gambling. This week they're going on a Caribbean cruise for seniors. The girls always enjoy meeting new people and seeing new places. They live in a retirement home called Shady Pines, but very often they're not there. You can find Beverly and Blanche hanging out at the beach or playing online 3 card poker at the local internet cafe. They're quite good at the game, and they're happy to tell you all about it.

Cruising on the Caribbean and playing online 3 card poker
The girls were enjoying their first day at sea. Luckily neither of them developed seasickness, so they could enjoy everything the cruise had to offer. Beverly was a little peeved at Blanche because she forgot to pack the laptop. Beverly was going to miss a week without playing online 3 card poker. As they explored the ship, they discovered a social room with several computer monitors for passengers' enjoyment. The girls were delighted they would be able to play online 3 card poker after all!