Poker Cheating and Who Cares

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Hittin' to the Oldies

post from The Obituarium on 27 January 2008 12:47:00 PM. © The Obituarium

I hadn't watched this in a while. I've watched it 8 times in the last half-hour.

Good, old fashioned, C-Lister fun.

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Poll Question Answer is

post from Do or Die Poker on 27 January 2008 12:21:54 PM. © Do or Die Poker

…Evelyn Ng is the most attractive female poker player by a landslide!Eveylyn is indeed drop dead gorgeous. I was still a bit surprised that Vanessa Rousso didn’t garner one vote....

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Poker Player Carlos Mortenson

post from Do or Die Poker on 27 January 2008 12:12:41 PM. © Do or Die Poker

Carlos recently won the 2007 WPT Championship and took down over $3.9 Million dollars in the process. Carlos is also the 2001 WSOP Main Event winner. Carlos has made several TV appearances on Poker...

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NBC Heads Up Line-upNBC Television announced the
64 "Invitations" to their Heads Up Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next month

post from Poker on 27 January 2008 05:07:10 AM. © Poker

NBC Heads Up Line-up

HeadsUp NBC Television announced the 64 "Invitations" to their Heads Up Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next month. As with any exclusive list, there were and are omissions, favorites and just some questionable choices. Appropriately cranky comments follow the list:

1. Alexander, Jason (celebrity)
2. Antonius, Patrik (player)
3. Bellande, Jean-Robert (player)
4. Benyamine, David (player)
5. Brown, Chad (player)
6. Brunson, Doyle (player)
7. Brunson, Todd (player)
8. Chan, Johnny (player)
9. Cheadle, Don (celebrity)
10. Clements, Scott (player)
11. Cloutier, T.J. (player)
12. Cunningham, Allen (player)
13. Deeb, Freddy (player)
14. Duke, Annie (player)
15. Dwan, Tom (online player)
16. Edler, Bill (player)
17. Elezra, Eli (player)

Next stop the world - Dustin Mele wins PokerStars Passport
The tournament was straight forward enough; 100 runners, regular blinds, 3,000 starting chips and a 15 minute clock. But the field and prize were something altogether less ordinary. An exclusive list of the top 100 players on the PokerStars tournament...
European Player of the Year

Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is the 2007 CardPlayer European Player of the Year after his third-place finish in the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic on Dec. 17, 2007 moved the notorious Englishman to the top of the leader board with 3,446 points.

Ulliott's late surge saw him overtake Chris Bjorin, who had dominated the rankings for much of the year after an impressive World Series of Poker run which saw him make three final tables. Ulliott had his most successful year in tournament poker ever in 2007, winning $1.2 million dollars and making five major final tables.

Norway's Annette Obrestad came third in the rankings after winning the World Series of Poker Europe main event in London and taking second in the European Poker Tour Dublin. Russian Alexander Kravchenko, who won a bracelet at the 2007 WSOP and made the final table of the WSOP main event, finished fourth.

The top 10 CardPlayer European players of 2007 are:

1. David "Devilfish" Ulliott - Hull - 3,446
2. Chris Bjorin - London - 3,375
3. Annette Obrestad - Stavanger - 2,608
4. Alexander Kravchenko - Moscow - 2,579
5. Juan Carlos Mortensen - Madrid - 2,496
6. Rene Mouritsen - Copenhagen - 2,472
7. Mark Teltscher - London - 2,344
8. Florian Langmann - Dresden - 2,040
9. Gus Hansen - Copenhagen - 2,034
10. Jeffrey Lisandro - Salerno - 1,964

This is the third year of the award, previous winners were Roland de Wolfe (2006) and Max Pescatori (2005).

PokerStars Sunday Tournament Winners (1-20-08)
It seems like the Sunday Million is settling into a new norm. In the past, it was great to see more than 6,000 players every week. The past few weeks, the Sunday Million has been rocking and rolling with more...
I Coulda Been Goin' to Rio!

cranky66 OK the U.S. Congress screwed up a lot of people with that dumb ass Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act. Personally, I lost access to my two favorite online poker sites and the sites I now play on have complicated machinations to get my money in and out. I also had a nice chunk of my bankroll tied up with Neteller for nearly a year and I have to write letters to politicians who I wouldn't let in my dog's house. Yes, yes, ever red-blooded American (French, German, Turkish, Canadian, Danish, etc.) poker player has some or all or more complaints about the meddling politicians around the world, who just can't seem to leave us the hell alone.

But I have a new, very personal complaint.

rio2 Every time I log into one of the sites I play poker on, I see new promotions to win a seat in Aussie Millions or the European Poker Tour or any number of WPT or WSOP events. I take a shot once in awhile but mostly I am happy to go to my local cardroom on Friday and and to spend the rest of my poker bankroll in online tournaments. But I have had one big travel dream all of my life. I would like to go to Rio de Janeiro for Carnival.

So image my surprise and image the hate-filled nasty, nasty, nasty letter I send my congresslady when I saw the Party Poker promotion for Carnival in Rio next month. PartyPoker is sending eight players to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Me! I should be going! This was my trip to win [insert long-winded, barely coherent rant about politicians, loss of personal freedom and several four and nine letter words that should not be spoked within 300 meters of schools or churches].

rio1 Yes, you play poker to win the prize package but once you are in Rio it is pure fun. Hotel, airfare, seats at the grand parade and a big chunk of spending money.

But I live in the land of the semi-free run by brave-less weasels, so I can't open my Party account and play for the dream vacation of my life.

You Bastards!

Step your way to EPT Warsaw and EPT Grand Final
How about this? Let's just say you have an extra $7.50 sitting in your PokerStars account. Or, better yet, let's say you have 500 Frequnt Player Points and nothing to do with them. Okay, now, let's just imagine you find...
2007 Prediction Scorecard
As the end draws to a close and the good and bad of the UIGEA has mostly played out or has progressed far enough to identify trends I thought it would be a good idea to go back over what I wrote over the last several months. Some of the things I predicted were [...]
Phil Hellmuth Heart Phil Hellmuth
Not that it comes as a surprise to anyone who follows poker but Robin Millard reporting from London for the Bangkok Post has some great quotes from the best poker player in the world (Phil’s opinion, not mine).Maybe there’s 100 people who are better than me. But they haven’t found the game yet. [...]
Ask a Team PokerStars Pro: McEvoy's Caribbean Adventure
Tom, how was your PokerStars Caribbean Aventure? by Tom McEvoy I recently got back for the Bahamas where I participated in the 5th annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. For the first time, this was part of the European PokerTour. Already we...
BBC Poker "Tell" Test

TonyTell
The BBC Science website has an interesting test that I invite you to take and report back your results. The test lets you look at 20 faces and activate a micro-video of them smiling. The whole test takes less than ten minutes. Your task, should you choose to accept it, will be to decipher if the smile is genuine or fake.

I will suggest that such abilities away from the poker table is, in fact, a good measure of your skill in picking up tells at the table. You see many poker players believe that tells are indicators of whether or not a person has a weak or a strong hand. Wrong!

Tells are signs of a persons emotions and their reactive behavior to stress and anxiety. The change in their pulse or forehead or mouth takes place much faster than the brain processes: "That two of clubs made my flush."

So my point is that practicing and perfecting your reading skills is something that can be and should be done away from the poker table. If you can catch the fake smile or the nervous twitch of the eyebrow; it really doesn't matter if the person is bluffing with 72o or telling you how much they like your new shoes. The physical tells are the same and reading them correctly is your task.

Let us know how you did on the BBC test. My group of 'Poker Buddies' averaged only 12 out of 20; I need to play more poker with them!

ABSOLUTE-ly Ridiculous

thumbsdown Absolute Poker has released a statement following the "independent" audit of their insider cheating scandal. The complete text of the release can be found below.

I want to say a couple of things about this entire incident. First, the audit was not independent, as it was done by the same folks who run the Absolute servers and "sanction" the Absolute site.

Absolute employees tried to cover up the cheating incident they knew had occurred. The evidence stands uncontroverted that the first reaction of everyone at Absolute was to deny and cover-up.

Documents and records that would verify the acts of cheating and identify the employees who cheated were destroyed. The argument that this was inadvertent is not to be believed.

There has been no meaningful punishment to Absolute, they are paying a half a million dollar fine, which comes out of one corporation account and goes into another. They do promise not to do it again, where have we heard this before? They are also going through a lot of smoke and mirror public relations effort to give the appearance of genuine concern.

Too little, too late and just too many lame excuses.

Will this happen again in the future at some big online poker site? Yes, it will. There are hackers, cheats and crooks out there looking for security holes in the cyber-systems.

What everyone should look for is how the next site responds to a security breech. Will they deny and attempt a cover-up like Absolute Poker did or will they deal with the issue openly and honestly. The measure of security is trust and trust is earned. Absolute Poker lost my trust and all this corporate double-speak will not gain it back.

My last question is: Why are there still players on Absolute Poker?

[Text of Absolute statement follows the page break.]

PokerStars Sunday Tournament Winners (1-13-08)
It must be something in the high stakes waters. It's only been a couple of weeks since Dario Minieri won both the Sunday $5,200 freezeout and High Stakes showdown in the same day. This week, someone else did the same...
Two Plus Two PokerCast has David Sklansky this week
If you didn't start listening to the Two Plus Two PokerCast, sponsored by the PokerStars VIP Club, during the PCA, now may be the time to start. The boys from Two Plus Two have put together a tight little...

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Flipchip Defines Big Pair

photos by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com Flipchip photos direct from the floor of the 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo Las Vegas While you're sitting around on this football-less weekend watching the Tiger Woods Golf Show you might consider heading over[...]

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