Poker in the Alps
UltimateBet poker invites you to stack your chips higher at a luxurious five-star ski resort and spa, perched atop the pictures mountains of Austria, from march 21st through 28th, 2009. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/Poker_Promotions/Poker_In_The_Alps.html

The WSOP Announces $1,000,000 Texas Hold em Freeroll
The World Series of Poker has announced that it will be holding a live $1,000,000 Texas Hold em Freeroll Tournament. The event will take place during the Annual WSOP, which will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year marks the 41st time the Annual WSOP will be held. read more

PartyPoker Can Make You a Lifer
Online poker giant, PartyPoker.com, has announced that it will award a lifetime World Series of Poker Main Event package to two players and that six more will win free entry to the event for 2010. read more

UltimateBet’s Epic 9 Poker Tournament
UltimateBet’s Epic 9 is a 9-player online poker tournament featuring Phil Hellmuth, a $50k prize pool AND two leaderboard competitions that will award $2,000 a day leading up to it. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/Poker_Promotions/UltimateBet_Epic_9.html

Win a seat at the 2009 ECPokerTour Salzburg
Titan Poker presents the year’s most prestigious new tournament, the ECPokerTour Salzburg 2009. The ECPokerTour poker championship will be staged in the lavish new Alpine Palace Card Casino between April 3rd and 5th 2009. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/Poker_Promotions/2009_ECPokerTour_Salzburg.html

2008 WCOOP breaks online prize-pool record
PokerStars broke the online poker prize pool record on Sunday with the 2008 WCOOP Main Event. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/PokerNews/ns_02102008_50.html

2008 World Series of Poker Final Table Payouts (source: about.com)
Tonight on ESPN is the final night of pre-recorded coverage of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. You’ll see the final 27 players battle it out for a… (source: about.com) – RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

WSOP-C Hammond, Final Table: Steve Billirakis Caps Wire-to-Wire Run (source: pokernews.com)
In an impressive display, Steve ‘MrSmokey1′ Billirakis took the chip lead on Day 1 of the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at the Horseshoe Hammond and never let go, going wire to wire to take down the $208,885 first prize… (source: pokernews.com) – RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

The November Niners
The November Niners Now that the last remaining players to compete on one of the most famous, one of the most prestigious and definitely the one of the richest sporting event in the world, are completed, its time to learn a bit of them and have a taste of what could happen in the poker table [...]

UltimateBet launches satellites for UBOC
UltimateBet today released the satellite poker tournament schedule for UBOC 2009, UltimateBet’s Online Championship series, and unleashed an impressive Main Event calendar that features 22 guaranteed events. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/PokerNews/ns_18092008_22.html

Titan Poker Launches New 9.6 Version of their Online Poker Client
A streamlined site and new brand logo accompany the recent developments at Europe’s most popular online poker room Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/PokerNews/ns_10032010_484.html

A recent industry study concluded that 12% of online poker players were apprehensive about or had completely stopped playing online poker in light of the recent poker bot craze. That essentially sends players offline rather than risk their money against these new computer-generated poker bots.

However, there are several ways to beat a poker bot in online poker, and knowing these methods will certainly give the human player back the edge against poker bots. One fact that makes a poker bot a better player is that they lack the human emotion or power of reasoning that a human must use when playing online poker. A poker bot is not apt to go on ’tilt’ or get angry when they are the victims of a bad beat.

In playing online poker, human players are up against two major advantages. One is the computer generated code created by the poker sites to determine shuffles, deals and outcomes of a hand, while the other disadvantage, just as dangerous to your bankroll, is the poker bot, that is pre-programmed with all the statistics and probabilities of the game.

Nevertheless, you can use the computer-generated codes of the poker sites and poker bots against them if you understand how they work. A poker bot is confined to making decisions based solely on the play of the game with regard to its statistical analysis of poker. In other words, a poker bot will only make decisions based on known patterns in the game.

Moreover, the online poker sites, which actively attempt to detect and thwart the efforts of poker bot programmers and users, have implemented a counter-measure to the poker bots, using the same known patterns. By implementing a counter measure to the poker bots, a poker site is able to ensure that a poker bot will not win since the poker bots actions are predictable and confined to a skill-set directly related to statistical odds and probability.

This, as confusing as it may seem, actually works to the advantage of the human player. While the poker site’s software is actively seeking the poker bot patterns and attempting to detect who is a human and who is a computer generated bot script, they also inadvertently implemented a flaw which allows a human player to take advantage of the online poker sites weakness.

In reality, this has resulted in a human player having the ability to not only beat the poker bot, but beat human opponents as well. By following a set pattern that the online poker sites are using, an advantage is created for anyone who is aware of that pattern. This pattern is known as a sequential algorithm and that algorithm dramatically has changed the poker game online to force wins and losses in a set, specific and predictable pattern.

It is not only plausible to beat a poker bot; it is easily accomplished by recognizing the patterns used by online poker sites. These patterns are simple to learn and require little skill by a human player. So the next time you think about playing poker online, consider using the codes and algorithms created by the poker site to your advantage. They are there to prevent the poker bots from winning, but not you!

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How-to-play-7-5-cardstud – Courtesy of Poker Skool (source: poker-skool.com)
How to play 7 and 5 card stud poker, where are the best places to play 7 and 5 card stud, can you play for free, how much will the casinos pay you to play. we show you how and where. (source: poker-skool.com) – RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

Poker & Pop Culture: Poker-Playing Presidents (source: pokernews.com)
Americans head to the polls today to elect their 44th president. It has been a long, arduous, hotly-contested battle, and those reporting it have seen fit on numerous occasions to employ a variety of poker metaphors along the way… (source: pokernews.com) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Brian Townsend Admits to Multi-Accounting (source: PokerSourceOnline.com)
Brian Townsend, a CardRunners.com instructor and one of the most popular young internet poker … (source: PokerSourceOnline.com) – RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com