A really good article/op-ed piece on Pokerati about poker bots Tim Chilcote. Tim sat down with Darse Billings of the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group, the folks who created the poker bot Polaris that played Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, to get some insight into what sort of threat a poker bot would …
Jonas Ödman, Vice President of Bodog Network, has taken a different view on the death of the shared network model that he’s shared on the Calvin Ayre website titled Balkanization Not Consolidation? Jonas says: Player liquidity and consolidation have been two key words in the online poker industry for a number of years now. Player …
When I recently read that Party-Bwin was putting Ongame up for sale the first thought that crossed my mind is that this is basically a signal that the whole shared network model has been declared dead. While poker has begun to play a smaller and smaller role for PartyGaming for the last few years it …
In the comments on my post The Online Poker Arms Race Revisited Kim Lund referenced a post he wrote about Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth leaving UB titled, Annie Duke leaving UB. So?. In that post he makes an excellent, excellent point that I want to expand on. Kim writes: There’s no doubt that poker …
I wanted to revisit a post I wrote not too long ago called The Online Poker Arms Race. Since that post Greg Raymer and PokerStars have announced that the two have decided to part ways. I’m not going to repeat all of the stuff people have said about Raymer being a great ambassador for the …