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 …
Before I get started I wanted to take a second and thank Michael Jones over at Part Time Poker for bringing together three seemingly unrelated topics which I had been stewing on for awhile. Him mentioning all three in the same article sort of forced me to sit down and put digital pen to digital …
I’m always surprised that anybody has any interest in reading what I write but you guys and gals do and the numbers just keep increasing. The latest milestone you folks have helped this site hit is having over 2000 RSS/Email subscribers. That means over 2000 people, in addition to those who just run across the …
Last night was fun. Mark from Melted Felt and Sit and Go Planet fame was in Bangkok with Erika and I texted new BKK resident, Tim from Pokerology, to come meet us at my friend Scott’s birthday party over on Soi 22. Considering that the birthday boy is a professional poker player and several other …