| Poker Pro Hand Analysis | 2010 08 11
08:48 am | From an email I received from Lucky Ace Poker (888 network):
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Fancy some poker tips? Well, read on and enjoy the priceless information in this month's Poker Pro Hand Analysis:
"Starting chips were $10,000 and I have not yet played a hand when I found Pocket Kings under the gun. Big blind was 40 and I limped in. All players to the button fold who raises to 120. The small blind calls, the big blind folds, and there are three of us pre-flop. The flop comes 2s-5s-10s, small blinds checks and I make an exact pot-sized bet of 400 which the button raises to 800. Small blind calls. I deliberately did not look at my cards again knowing that one of my kings was a spade. I re-raise to 3,000, the button folds and the small blind goes all in with 10,000. After a short consideration I call. He shows 10d-Qh and thus has the top pair with Q as kicker but no chance to draw on the flush. Neither the turn nor the river bring good cards for any of us and I win with a pair of kings. Small blind drops out of the tournament and I have doubled up in only ten minutes.
"The button was an experienced professional, the small blind a rather naïve amateur. I slow-played the hand because you can make a lot of chips in the early stages of the tournament. If an Ace came on the flop and I was under the impression that I was beaten I can still fold quite cheap. Conversely I can collect some chips if I hit something on the flop.
"Why did I play the hand so aggressively despite the three spades on the board? Firstly the button interpreted my bet as information bet and asked me with his re-raise if I really hit something on the flop. Dangerous of course was the small blind’s call but when the button folded as a result of my re-raise and the small blind went all in I knew that he was not holding a complete flush but the Ace of spades at the most. I knew him from the cash games already and he was the type of player who played a complete hand slowly draws on the other hand he played aggressively. His all-in was a clear sign that he had no complete flush.
"Of course my style of play bore a certain risk but I think it makes more sense to take the risk in the early stages of a tournament when I think I am the favorite in the hand. If I win the pot I have an excellent position for the rest of the tournament because holding more than double the chip amount I can put a lot of pressure on other players."
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NH sir. |
| SMH Article - "Generation G set to explode in numbers" | 2010 06 01
04:59 pm | this cannot be good... link
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Generation G set to explode in numbers
DANIELLE TEUTSCH AND MICHAEL BACHELARD
May 30, 2010
The sharp growth in online sports betting and poker will create a new generation of problem gamblers, experts warn.
Sports betting, which is increasingly taking place online, is growing at a much faster rate than other forms of gambling.
And while online sports betting is legal, Australians are also spending about $1 billion a year playing online poker and other casino games – which are untaxed, unregulated and potentially subject to criminal charges.
The explosion of online gambling is proving a regulatory headache for the federal government, as it considers calls to legalise the industry and recoup some of the millions of dollars now flowing to offshore companies. But liberalisation of online gambling will face vehement opposition from anti-gambling advocates, who say a new wave of problem gamblers is imminent.
Next month, the government will release the final Productivity Commission report on gambling, which is expected to recommend legalising some forms of online gambling.
Online poker companies are currently prohibited from operating or advertising in Australia by the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.
But a handful have been able to exploit legal grey areas to promote their business in Australia.
Offshore poker sites have sponsored two Sydney NRL teams and pub poker companies, as well as hiring high-profile sports stars such as Shane Warne and Brendan Fevola to promote their products.
There is nothing to stop Australians going online and playing poker, and it is not illegal, although companies offering casino products are theoretically subject to fines of up to $1.1 million a day. Australian Federal Police have refused to lay charges against illegal operators, despite 17 referrals to them since 2001.
New figures, obtained by The Sun-Herald from international industry experts Global Betting and Gaming Consultants, show Australians are expected to spend $968 million this year on online casino games, poker and bingo, with a third of that spent on poker alone.
Sydney lawyer Jamie Nettleton, an expert on legal issues related to online gambling, said the real amount of money flowing offshore was likely to be "20 times more". Accounting firm KPMG's gaming and racing expert Anthony Travers said prohibition simply created an underground economy, and that the government was missing out on millions of dollars in tax revenue.
"If we do head down the path of regulation, there will be substantial tax benefits," he said.
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has warned that young people are particularly vulnerable to the lure of online gambling.
Mr Xenophon has a private members' bill ready which would ban Australian credit card companies from processing payments to offshore gambling websites.
Online sports betting is set to explode if restrictions on interactive gambling are lifted. Allowing "live" or "in play" betting, where punters could bet multiple times during a match or event using their smart phone or even the TV remote control, is tipped to revolutionise online sports betting and strengthen the nexus between sports and gambling.
Monash University's gambling expert Charles Livingstone predicts it would lead to a new wave of gambling problems. "Young people in particular are becoming acclimatised to the view that everything is an open market for gambling on."
Betstar's managing director Alan Eskander said the arrival of interactive sports betting was a certainty, and it would eventually overtake poker machines in popularity.
Betfair chief Andrew Twaits believes the future of gambling is an online, one-stop gambling shop – as soon as legislative barriers are removed: "If you are a punter and you like betting on the racing and footy and cricket and online poker, you'll end up having one account, that's my view. So really, there's a race on among all the operators to offer this proverbial one-stop shop."
with Tom Reilly
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Cliffs: Won't somebody think of the children? |
| i hate live poker and i hate dem hooks | 2010 05 10
02:06 pm | (aka folding overpairs <100bbs deep?)
Live 2/3NL at Crown, Sat night 10pm-ish.
MP is a young white guy who just sat down (at same time as a friend) and played his first 2 hands at the table pretty passively, winning about about $50 with AhTh on TxXhXhXxXx or something against AK. Now has $250 and i have about the same.
Couple of limps, he makes it $25 in MP, folds to me in BB, I call.
Flop 552r, check, he bets $25, i call.
Turn 8, check, he bets $60, i jam.
Thoughts on all streets? |
| Full Tilt sponsoring Sydney City Roosters | 2010 03 14
05:27 pm | Watching the game atm, and looks like they have FullTilt patches on the back of their shorts on both sides.
Is this new? Poker going mainstream(-ish)?
edit: According to the Roosters website FullTiltPoker.com is a "senior sponsor" and it links to fulltiltpoker.com. Shouldnt this be FullTiltPoker.net? Otherwise they could be seen as taking money from companies providing illegal online gambling services to Australians? |
| Winner of The Poker Star admits to being ghosted online | 2010 02 02
03:57 pm | I am not 100% sure what Pokerstars.com's official line on ghosting is, but I think it is something like "don't do it, its against the rules, but if you are the one clicking the buttons, we cant do anything".
So if someone has just won a poker TV show which they were involved in, and I believe signed (or is at least associated) with you, you probably don't want them saying something like this in a poker magazine:
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So we would sit there and play online and we would chat through Skype. I would tell him what I had and he would say to me 'This is what you're going to do and this is why you're doing it'.
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(From this month's AAP Pokernews magazine article about Amanda De Cesare)
I understand that it happens, and not much can be done about it, but it is against the rules. So how can someone be so blasé about it that they allow it to be published in an article in a multi-national magazine? |
