One of the newest poker rooms to launch online is CardSpike.com, as they have only been out for around one month. However, since they're on the Cake Poker network, they already have thousands of players online at all hours, and have some great tournaments and sit and go's. To entice players to sign up, they're encouraging players to use a CardSpike Promotion Code to receive a 100% up to $500 bonus.
The terms of this bonus are as follows: Players have 90 days to clear the bonus, and have to earn 166.6 FPP's to clear each $10 of total bonus. To be eligible for the full bonus, you have to deposit $500 or more. Good luck, and enjoy!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
New Bonus at a Great Poker Room
I was checking out some poker videos on YouTube today and came across a cool video. Basically it shows players how to get a $600 bonus when you make your first deposit at the Full Tilt poker site. All you need to do is use the Full Tilt Poker Referral Code that is shown in the video, and you'll get the 100% bonus tracked to your account. Check it out today!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Man vs. Machine Poker Match
Very recently a new poker-playing artificial intelligence machine has been developed that is believed to be more adaptive to poker than humans. This new machine, "Polaris 2.0" is believed to soon surpass humans in the game of poker, and it was recently tested in Las Vegas against numerous poker pros.
Polaris played four rounds of Texas Hold 'Em against two separate teams, and Polaris proceeded to win 2 of the rounds, drawing and losing the other two. However this was after Polaris 1.0 was first released to play in public prior to this years new release. Humans ended up defeating Polaris 1.0, 3 out of 4 matches, but the release of 2.0 took everyone for a new ride.
Polaris was first developed for chess, and after beating chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, the research team moved onto developing a poker strategy. This new Polaris, "Polaris 2.0" soon became very famous around the University of Alberta. The major new innovations of this new Polaris were its ability to not allow humans to exploit any weaknesses found within the machine. And not to mention, the machine could learn from past experiences.
This means that the machine can identify the strategy that each individual poker player would use, then quickly switch its own strategy to counteract the opponents. The poker pros at the match said they have not seen a human do this before: switch strategies to counteract the opponent so efficiently.
Although Polaris 2.0 did beat the human teams 3 out of the 4 matches that took place in Las Vegas, many poker pros are still skeptic of the robots ability to play against higher ranking pros. One pro is quoted saying, "Over the next year or so there are going to have to be several rematches before everyone is convinced that humans have been surpassed by machines in poker."
Researches are also hoping to develop a new system to enable Polaris to play on a wider range of games, besides the sole Heads-up Texas Hold 'Em version it is now capable of. The researches are hoping to develop new algorithm systems that will allow the robot to be used in a variety of different aspects of technology, far away from poker.
So the real question is will these new robots truly be more adaptable to poker than humans by remembering literally every hand played and adapting? And if so, how will this affect the online poker world in the near future?
Polaris played four rounds of Texas Hold 'Em against two separate teams, and Polaris proceeded to win 2 of the rounds, drawing and losing the other two. However this was after Polaris 1.0 was first released to play in public prior to this years new release. Humans ended up defeating Polaris 1.0, 3 out of 4 matches, but the release of 2.0 took everyone for a new ride.
Polaris was first developed for chess, and after beating chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, the research team moved onto developing a poker strategy. This new Polaris, "Polaris 2.0" soon became very famous around the University of Alberta. The major new innovations of this new Polaris were its ability to not allow humans to exploit any weaknesses found within the machine. And not to mention, the machine could learn from past experiences.
This means that the machine can identify the strategy that each individual poker player would use, then quickly switch its own strategy to counteract the opponents. The poker pros at the match said they have not seen a human do this before: switch strategies to counteract the opponent so efficiently.
Although Polaris 2.0 did beat the human teams 3 out of the 4 matches that took place in Las Vegas, many poker pros are still skeptic of the robots ability to play against higher ranking pros. One pro is quoted saying, "Over the next year or so there are going to have to be several rematches before everyone is convinced that humans have been surpassed by machines in poker."
Researches are also hoping to develop a new system to enable Polaris to play on a wider range of games, besides the sole Heads-up Texas Hold 'Em version it is now capable of. The researches are hoping to develop new algorithm systems that will allow the robot to be used in a variety of different aspects of technology, far away from poker.
So the real question is will these new robots truly be more adaptable to poker than humans by remembering literally every hand played and adapting? And if so, how will this affect the online poker world in the near future?
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
My Latest Trip to TS
We returned yesterday from our trip to Turning Stone, and it was a blast. I had the chance to do everything that I wished to. The food was great, the poker turned out to be so-so for me, but great for others, and the golf was amazing. Without a doubt the highlight of my trip was the amazing golf course and the relaxing that came with it.
The main reason for going was obviously the poker, and for this particular trip, the Heartland Poker Tour was at Turning Stone and brought a large amount of players to the casino. One of my friends was staked in each of the tournaments that Heartland hosted but failed to cash in any. Another of my friends did well on the cash tables and left up around $400 solely from cash games. And the last member of our group ended placing 6th in the $220 deep stack turbo tournament that Heartland hosted for just over $2000. He had a very profittable trip leaving with over $3000 after coming with only a few hundred dollars.
My poker play ended fairly quickly, the third day or so. I was running terribly on the cash tables as I tended to get my money good on large pots and then proceeded to be drawn out in the three major pots I was in. The first of which was with pocket fives; I called a normal preflop raise of around $12 along with around 3 other callers including the raiser. The flop came 3 5 7, two diamonds. I was first to act and checked, the raiser C-bet the flop for about $30 and I raised all in after one behind me called the $30 for an additional $65 or $70. The initial raiser called the extra $70 with AK of diamonds, a flush draw, with the 9 of diamonds obviously coming on the river without pairing the board.
Another hand with AA left me with a loss of a $400 pot against a woman with KQ who called my reraise preflop to about $20 after she min-raised before me to $4. The flop came Q 4 2 and she lead out $40 on the flop, I raised all in for an additional $110 or so, she proceeded to call and the turn came a queen to end my poker playing trip. I decided then that I would rather do other things this trip than play poker.
The golf was amazing, we played the Shenendoah course for around $120 per round. The $120 included a cart for the 18 holes along with the top of the line rental clubs, all Titleist. I ended up parring 8 out of the 18 holes which I was happy with, but missed a great eagle opportunity on a par 4 after driving the green. That golf session was worth the entire trip to Turning Stone as I'm sure that will be one of the finest courses I will ever play.
Along with the golf the food was very good, we tended to order room service far too often and should have gone to more restaurants, but it was very good anyway. Rodizios was everything it has been in the past, but next time I expect to visit the steakhouse and Asian restaurant we planned on eating at this trip.
The main reason for going was obviously the poker, and for this particular trip, the Heartland Poker Tour was at Turning Stone and brought a large amount of players to the casino. One of my friends was staked in each of the tournaments that Heartland hosted but failed to cash in any. Another of my friends did well on the cash tables and left up around $400 solely from cash games. And the last member of our group ended placing 6th in the $220 deep stack turbo tournament that Heartland hosted for just over $2000. He had a very profittable trip leaving with over $3000 after coming with only a few hundred dollars.
My poker play ended fairly quickly, the third day or so. I was running terribly on the cash tables as I tended to get my money good on large pots and then proceeded to be drawn out in the three major pots I was in. The first of which was with pocket fives; I called a normal preflop raise of around $12 along with around 3 other callers including the raiser. The flop came 3 5 7, two diamonds. I was first to act and checked, the raiser C-bet the flop for about $30 and I raised all in after one behind me called the $30 for an additional $65 or $70. The initial raiser called the extra $70 with AK of diamonds, a flush draw, with the 9 of diamonds obviously coming on the river without pairing the board.
Another hand with AA left me with a loss of a $400 pot against a woman with KQ who called my reraise preflop to about $20 after she min-raised before me to $4. The flop came Q 4 2 and she lead out $40 on the flop, I raised all in for an additional $110 or so, she proceeded to call and the turn came a queen to end my poker playing trip. I decided then that I would rather do other things this trip than play poker.
The golf was amazing, we played the Shenendoah course for around $120 per round. The $120 included a cart for the 18 holes along with the top of the line rental clubs, all Titleist. I ended up parring 8 out of the 18 holes which I was happy with, but missed a great eagle opportunity on a par 4 after driving the green. That golf session was worth the entire trip to Turning Stone as I'm sure that will be one of the finest courses I will ever play.
Along with the golf the food was very good, we tended to order room service far too often and should have gone to more restaurants, but it was very good anyway. Rodizios was everything it has been in the past, but next time I expect to visit the steakhouse and Asian restaurant we planned on eating at this trip.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Trip to Turning Stone
Recently a group of friends and I decided to plan a long-weekend's vacation to Turning Stone, a casino twenty five minutes out of Syracuse, New York. The vacation is a perfect chance for the five of us to be relieved from stress at work and our homes. It also just happens to be one of the busiest poker weekends at Turning Stone as the Heartland Poker Tour is visiting as well.
The rooms were the most difficult decision for our group to decide upon, as Turning Stone offers a variety. Many of the rooms and packages were booked due to the poker players coming into town, but we still have a number of choices. We decided to spend less than our last trip and book the Hotel at Turning Stone for around $100/night for the first 3 nights. We leave on Wednesday morning and plan to return Sunday afternoon. So, Wednesday through Friday night we will stay in the Hotel, then Saturday night we'll be living it up in the Lodge, with the finest ammenities. We plan on using the room service to the utmost possibilities, and milking the main desk for all they're worth.
The drive there is no less than 3 hours, but going for nearly a week is completely worth the drive. This will be my longest stay at Turning Stone, but there is plenty to do besides gamble. They offer some of the finest golf courses in New York including PGA Championship courses; Atunyote, Shenendoah, and Pleasant Knolls. Each entirely worth the reservation and price required.
The Heartland Poker tour is offering 3 major poker tournaments that we all plan on winning a satellite into. The three buy-ins are $500, $700, $1500, and $200 deep stack turbo, all of which are No-Limit Hold 'Em. One of my colleagues with a rather massive poker bankroll plans to buy into each tournament, while the others will attempt satellites.
The cash tables are very accessible for players at any Hold 'Em level. All different types of players come to the tables, and if you have a decent amount of poker experience and knowledge, you should have no trouble in making money. I plan to pay for the entire trip and then extra completely off playing at the $100 max cash tables.
One of the greatest highlights discluding the golf and poker is the dining. Turning Stone offers some of the finest dining restaurants around including Pino Bianco, Wildflowers, Rodizio, and Forest Grill. Each one specializes in a different worldly cuisine suitable for any fine diner with an extensive pallat. I personally recomment Rodizios for its buffet Brazilian style dining, and it's absolutely delicious.
I plan on also utilizing the spa and massage opportunities as I missed out on that during our last trip. I hope this trip goes well as the last have, and if you have an opportunity to visit Turning Stone I recommend all these features.
The rooms were the most difficult decision for our group to decide upon, as Turning Stone offers a variety. Many of the rooms and packages were booked due to the poker players coming into town, but we still have a number of choices. We decided to spend less than our last trip and book the Hotel at Turning Stone for around $100/night for the first 3 nights. We leave on Wednesday morning and plan to return Sunday afternoon. So, Wednesday through Friday night we will stay in the Hotel, then Saturday night we'll be living it up in the Lodge, with the finest ammenities. We plan on using the room service to the utmost possibilities, and milking the main desk for all they're worth.
The drive there is no less than 3 hours, but going for nearly a week is completely worth the drive. This will be my longest stay at Turning Stone, but there is plenty to do besides gamble. They offer some of the finest golf courses in New York including PGA Championship courses; Atunyote, Shenendoah, and Pleasant Knolls. Each entirely worth the reservation and price required.
The Heartland Poker tour is offering 3 major poker tournaments that we all plan on winning a satellite into. The three buy-ins are $500, $700, $1500, and $200 deep stack turbo, all of which are No-Limit Hold 'Em. One of my colleagues with a rather massive poker bankroll plans to buy into each tournament, while the others will attempt satellites.
The cash tables are very accessible for players at any Hold 'Em level. All different types of players come to the tables, and if you have a decent amount of poker experience and knowledge, you should have no trouble in making money. I plan to pay for the entire trip and then extra completely off playing at the $100 max cash tables.
One of the greatest highlights discluding the golf and poker is the dining. Turning Stone offers some of the finest dining restaurants around including Pino Bianco, Wildflowers, Rodizio, and Forest Grill. Each one specializes in a different worldly cuisine suitable for any fine diner with an extensive pallat. I personally recomment Rodizios for its buffet Brazilian style dining, and it's absolutely delicious.
I plan on also utilizing the spa and massage opportunities as I missed out on that during our last trip. I hope this trip goes well as the last have, and if you have an opportunity to visit Turning Stone I recommend all these features.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Absolute Poker
Recently, I decided to deposit a mere $100 on Absolute Poker to test my luck in their tournaments. Now, Absolute has gotten a bad reputation after their scandal that occurred months prior, but I still wanted to play some of their new tournaments and see if they fixed the problems with their software.
I began playing some low stack tournaments such as $5 no re buy and $10 as well. The first day was a pure disaster and my bankroll had diminished to about $25. That was all from multi table tournaments and I was just running very poorly and I could not catch a break.
Day two was a complete 360 as I began by playing a $5 re buy. There were only 61 entries, but first place paid out a nice $331. At the end of the first break, I was only in for my original $5 and I also had a nice stack which put me in 5th out of 40 remaining. I chose to do a double add-on, and I was fortunate to make the final table. The final table was nuts and I was lucky enough to have AA against KK in a huge pot which allowed me to thrust forward and win the tournament.
My bankroll after this tournament was around $370. I did not feel like ending Day 2 so I decided to enter a $50 no re buy with 227 entrants. After 2.5 to 3 hours we had made the money which was only $72 for 27th-19th. I got all my chips in with 77 against KQ and a K fell on the turn. I was not to angry with that tournament and I knew I had a solid bankroll that would allow me to play some solid tournaments.
I woke early on day 3 and entered a $15 bounty tournament. The structure was pretty screwed up, but I was able to make it to the Final Table where I made an early exit. Later that night, I decided to play 3 tournaments: $5 re buy, $3 re buy, and there nightly $15,000 Guar. $30 re buy. Now I told myself I would only put $60 into the 15k and would go further.
Three hours later I found myself in the money for all three tournaments. First for the $3 was $1,700, $300 for the $5 re buy, and a massive $4,750 for the $30 re buy. I pushed on the button with 22 in the $3 and got called in the BB by AK....I lost the coin flip and finished in 62 for only $17.50. I was plowing through the other two fields and the next thing I knew I was at 2 Final Tables.
The atmosphere was great knowing I was about to more than double my bankroll. I grinded the $5 re buy and made it to Heads Up. I was down about 2:1 in chips, but got all my chips in with J7 on a J78 board and my opponent quickly called with KJ. My hand did not hold as he rivered a K and I got second place for $221.
The final table of the $30 re buy quickly became my main concern and with each player going out the pay outs were becoming huge. It was down to 6 of us and I found myself in last place. I was able to double up by winning a coin flip with 88. Two more people went out and it was down to 4. The blinds were 5k-10k and I only had about 121k in front of me. Hoping to steal the BB I shoved from the SB with Q10 and ran into QQ. I was still very happy as I just took down a cool $1,300.
I did not mention a few other tournaments that I cashed in, but regardless in 3 days I had cashed 8/11 MTT's and had profited over $1,800. One of the main things I enjoy about AP is there small fields which allow you to capture many final tables and even victories.
I began playing some low stack tournaments such as $5 no re buy and $10 as well. The first day was a pure disaster and my bankroll had diminished to about $25. That was all from multi table tournaments and I was just running very poorly and I could not catch a break.
Day two was a complete 360 as I began by playing a $5 re buy. There were only 61 entries, but first place paid out a nice $331. At the end of the first break, I was only in for my original $5 and I also had a nice stack which put me in 5th out of 40 remaining. I chose to do a double add-on, and I was fortunate to make the final table. The final table was nuts and I was lucky enough to have AA against KK in a huge pot which allowed me to thrust forward and win the tournament.
My bankroll after this tournament was around $370. I did not feel like ending Day 2 so I decided to enter a $50 no re buy with 227 entrants. After 2.5 to 3 hours we had made the money which was only $72 for 27th-19th. I got all my chips in with 77 against KQ and a K fell on the turn. I was not to angry with that tournament and I knew I had a solid bankroll that would allow me to play some solid tournaments.
I woke early on day 3 and entered a $15 bounty tournament. The structure was pretty screwed up, but I was able to make it to the Final Table where I made an early exit. Later that night, I decided to play 3 tournaments: $5 re buy, $3 re buy, and there nightly $15,000 Guar. $30 re buy. Now I told myself I would only put $60 into the 15k and would go further.
Three hours later I found myself in the money for all three tournaments. First for the $3 was $1,700, $300 for the $5 re buy, and a massive $4,750 for the $30 re buy. I pushed on the button with 22 in the $3 and got called in the BB by AK....I lost the coin flip and finished in 62 for only $17.50. I was plowing through the other two fields and the next thing I knew I was at 2 Final Tables.
The atmosphere was great knowing I was about to more than double my bankroll. I grinded the $5 re buy and made it to Heads Up. I was down about 2:1 in chips, but got all my chips in with J7 on a J78 board and my opponent quickly called with KJ. My hand did not hold as he rivered a K and I got second place for $221.
The final table of the $30 re buy quickly became my main concern and with each player going out the pay outs were becoming huge. It was down to 6 of us and I found myself in last place. I was able to double up by winning a coin flip with 88. Two more people went out and it was down to 4. The blinds were 5k-10k and I only had about 121k in front of me. Hoping to steal the BB I shoved from the SB with Q10 and ran into QQ. I was still very happy as I just took down a cool $1,300.
I did not mention a few other tournaments that I cashed in, but regardless in 3 days I had cashed 8/11 MTT's and had profited over $1,800. One of the main things I enjoy about AP is there small fields which allow you to capture many final tables and even victories.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
How to play Craps
Craps is a great game to play, but it can be tricky if you have never learned the rules to this blood rushing and exciting game.
Craps begins with a shooter who rolls two die against a wall. This first roll in known as the "come out" roll. If the shooter rolls a 2,3, or 12 this is known as craps and the shooter would lose the pass line bet, the round ends, and the same shooter would roll a new come out roll. If that shooter would have rolled a 7 or 11 then the shooter would win the pass line bet, the round ends, and the same shooter rolls a new come out roll.
You may be asking what happens if the shooter rolls a 4,5,6,8,9, or a 10. Well rolling one of these numbers establishes a "point" number. If you roll one of these then the round continues and on your next roll you are trying to roll your point number before rolling a 7. If you roll your point first then you win the pass line bet, the round ends, and the same shooter rolls a new come out roll. But if the 7 is rolled first then the shooter loses the pass line bet, the round ends, and the die are passed to the next shooter to the left.
The betting for this game has a great variety as players can bet on the way a round will end, a specific total being rolled, and a specific number being rolled. The first shooter or newest must bet on either the pass or dont pass line.
The pass line is won if a 7 or 11 is rolled first. This same bet can also be won if the shooter rolls a point number then rolls that same point number again before rolling a 7. The pass line bet would be lost if the shooter rolled a 2,3, or 12 to start or if they established a point number, but rolled the 7 first. The opposite goes for the dont pass line and players can choose to bet on whichever line they would like.
When betting on specific numbers remember to look at the craps board which displays all the bets that can be made and the odds of hitting that number.
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Craps begins with a shooter who rolls two die against a wall. This first roll in known as the "come out" roll. If the shooter rolls a 2,3, or 12 this is known as craps and the shooter would lose the pass line bet, the round ends, and the same shooter would roll a new come out roll. If that shooter would have rolled a 7 or 11 then the shooter would win the pass line bet, the round ends, and the same shooter rolls a new come out roll.
You may be asking what happens if the shooter rolls a 4,5,6,8,9, or a 10. Well rolling one of these numbers establishes a "point" number. If you roll one of these then the round continues and on your next roll you are trying to roll your point number before rolling a 7. If you roll your point first then you win the pass line bet, the round ends, and the same shooter rolls a new come out roll. But if the 7 is rolled first then the shooter loses the pass line bet, the round ends, and the die are passed to the next shooter to the left.
The betting for this game has a great variety as players can bet on the way a round will end, a specific total being rolled, and a specific number being rolled. The first shooter or newest must bet on either the pass or dont pass line.
The pass line is won if a 7 or 11 is rolled first. This same bet can also be won if the shooter rolls a point number then rolls that same point number again before rolling a 7. The pass line bet would be lost if the shooter rolled a 2,3, or 12 to start or if they established a point number, but rolled the 7 first. The opposite goes for the dont pass line and players can choose to bet on whichever line they would like.
When betting on specific numbers remember to look at the craps board which displays all the bets that can be made and the odds of hitting that number.
For more Craps information check out Casino Craps Gambling Online
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