MetaFilter posts tagged with OnlinePoker

Sorry, Phil.

cmyr — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:15:45 -0800

Several months ago, poker player Tom "durrrr" Dwan issued an unprecedented challange. In effect, he is offering 3:1 odds—his $1.5 million to the challengers $500,000—that, playing high-stakes heads-up (one on one) online poker, he will be winning after 50,000 hands. The challenge is open to anyone except for durrrr's good friend Phil Galfond; three players have reportedly accepted, and play in the first match began yesterday. The results are being tracked in real time here and here; you can brave the inanity of twoplustwo (previously) and read the ongoing match thread here.

Poker is a game of chance. But some chances are better than others.

rmd1023 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:53:04 -0800

Poker is pretty popular, and it seems like alm ost everyone is making money at it. At the tables, on Wall Street, and online. The World Poker Tour helped create the current boom and, with the World Series of Poker, helped make poker players into rock stars. There have been some previous issues with online poker room management, but -- for the most part -- players tend to believe that the software and random number generators are reasonably secure, and that the cheating risks of playing on line are mostly due to collusion, chip dumping, and the like rather than something specific to online play. (modulo the growing possibility of workable poker bots for online play). They appear to be wrong.

It's beginning to look like one online poker site has a cheating problem. theories abound, and some fallout has happened already.

24 hours of online poker

bdk3clash — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:03:11 -0800

Poker player plays for 24 hours in a row? Yawn. Online poker player plays eight tables simultaneously for 24 hours in a row? Interesting.

Primate Poker

bashos_frog — Sat, 22 May 2004 18:10:24 -0800

I'll raise you 5 bananas. What do Primate Programmers do in their off hours? Using David Sklansky's theorys to play Texas Hold'em online. As a poker-playing, programming, primate myself, I can relate.

Poker makes a comeback

hawkman — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:34:48 -0800

Poker Redux: Poker is sweeping America (and other countries as well). From million dollar online Texas Hold 'Em tournaments to the weekend nickel, dime, quarter games with friends to the World Poker Tour (heavily promoted on the Travel Channel), poker is forcing itself into the spotlight. [more inside]