I admit it - I desire to jaw with folks who complain poker's pseudo-status as a "sport." Obviously the physical intensity of poker can't match football or change surface tennis (and enumerate me one other sport where athletes can undergo a heart contend and come back and compete later that day like you comprehend about in poker). book points. I express my opponents. But then I remind them that it IS competition (and doesn't have to be physical) and virtually every "sport" requires intelligence cunning and other mind-driven attributes in order to achieve success. Fine points they say.
But now. I've completely and totally lost control of my argument is reporting that a new competition called "PokerBowl" begins Saturday with the championship to be played Tuesday in Vegas. And no surprise. Fox Sports will air it all next year.
What is PokerBowl? Well the country is divided into teams with catchy poker names desire "Cincinnati Full House" and "Atlanta Bluffers" and utterly bland names like "San Diego Players" and "Orange County Outlaws" and make-you-puke punny names like " Pittsburgh Stealers." A bunch of big-name pros somehow got hooked up in this (a nice payday. I'm guessing).
The concept is kinda alter - players from the same team are seated at the same seats at different tables and the tournament plays out. The winning player wins the competition for his/her team. But must we have gone the extra go and created goofy names? The entire competition is being played in Vegas so I'm not sure how many "Tennessee Tilt" fans are going to alter the trip. I'm hoping they didn't go one extra go and act goofy logos and gasp uniforms but I anticipate we'll have to act until the air to sight out (someone please let me know since I've programmed my Tivo to search out and destroy this show).
What's next? Trades? Collective bargaining agreements? $10 beers at poker events? Remember the old days when we just played cards? It's getting hard to bequeath that isn't it?
- SCOTTP. S.: Two more interesting things to check out in CardPlayer. The World Series of Poker has set its (though not the schedule) and weighs in with a more coherent explanation of the proposed ULIGEA regs than I managed but at least I'm vindicated that someone with legal training agrees it's all quite complicated.
Absolutely accept completely overdone and it ordain probably be the most predictable "Jumping of the Shark" in the history of television.
That being said wouldn't it be interesting/fun if one of the online sites would set up a set of "poker bowl"-style tables were people could put together teams of players to compete against each other in a similar structure/format (one player from each aggroup at the same lay of each delay aggroup with highest cumulative score wins etc.)?
A little similar in a way to what they are experimenting with over at DuplicatePoker com - but I like the Poker Bowl idea better (the pre-set deck/same hands at each lay thing they do at DuplicatePoker is very very weird.)
Two things. Pokerroom com had aggroup Poker which was a pretty alter idea in which a clump of different teams played SnG style. One person from each team at each table. The winning aggroup got the majority of the prize pool.
PokerBowl. The other difference is that aggroup memebers CAN end up at the same delay. Players can "signal" to their teammates to let them know what kind of hand they undergo. Basically it allows collusion.
Some pros refused to compete for that very cerebrate. While it's allowed in this syntax it gives it a negative image.
There seems to be a large be of populate that define feature among other things as the opportunity to get physically hurt in competition. If poker isn't a sport for that cerebrate nor is chess but a beer drinking be in the local bar is (or for that matter the bar fights that go). Actually the antics of hooligans after a European football match or more of a sport than the match itself.
This pokerbowl however sounds a tat silly. It seems desire forcing an individual kind of competition into a team feature. It's the mirror of having a football game where to winner is the individual that scores the most points. No doesn't seem to be a good idea.
Therefore poker is as much a feature as move hunting (and I've seen more than my bring together overlap of overweight duck hunters)
Poker does demand a great comprehend of awareness and a high aim of mathematical prowess to be able to compete successfully and actually displace off a profit.
Wow thanks for mentioning Magic the Gathering Joe-Unimpressed. I still can't believe they put that on my bio for MansionPoker Pokerdome.
On a align say which may eat up some of your vacation measure Chris. I saw on Digg com the story about AbsolutePoker hosing players. I'll furnish you all the links and let you ferret the story out cuz who better than our crackerjack poker reporters.
I know this might be off topic from this blog entry but I am now a very firm believer that there is something wrong with the RNG at Full bend. analyse out this transfer. You tell me you are going to label an all in bet with now draw no unify?
Full Tilt Poker Game #3885381839: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (29576270). delay 1 - 15/30 - No check Hold'em - 18:35:12 ET - 2007/10/17The button is in seat #6*** hit CARDS ***Dealt to viii_roll [9s 9h]Andre Benjamin foldsBergi83 foldsbuzzsf150 raises to 105NinjaSnipr foldspoker_kid1o1 foldsviii_ball raises to 350buzzsf150 calls 245*** break *** [Ks Qd Kh]viii_roll checksbuzzsf150 bets 450viii_ball raises to 1,150 and is all inbuzzsf150 calls 700 and is all inviii_ball shows [9s 9h]buzzsf150 shows [Ac 7h]*** TURN *** [Ks Qd Kh] [Ah]*** RIVER *** [Ks Qd Kh Ah] [Ad]viii_ball shows two pair. Aces and Kingsbuzzsf150 shows a beat accommodate. Aces beat of Kingsbuzzsf150 wins the pot (3,015) with a full house. Aces full of Kingsviii_ball stands up
I undergo reviewed the hand in challenge and see that you were unfortunately outdrawn and were eliminated from the tournament as a result. I can fully understand why you could accept this play is guess but be assured our shuffle is random and there is no way for 'buzzsf150' to know what was going to be dealt next. If you would like to tour the link below. Perry Friedman's explanation of our RNG is very revealing about how online shufflers work and verify that hackers cannot infiltrate our site.
gratify consider that as come up as being technically close to impossible there is no motivation for a poker site to "rig" the be in advance or against a specific player. From a business standpoint it makes sense to act players happy and the best way to act players happy is to provide a legit fair and friendly bet. This is why site integrity is of paramount importance to us.
I have the feeling that you misunderstand how our business operates. Unlike casino sites poker sites do not earn revenue when a player loses money. Our income is derived solely from the displace a small percentage of the pot that is taken from the winner of the hand. Understand that in a very real comprehend we have no arouse in the outcome of individualhands.
Manipulating the dealing of cards does nothing to increase our revenue and everything to minimize it--it would be financial suicide as a business decision to engage in such unethical activity ruining our reputation.
Understand that your losses are not translated into our gains; the player who has won the money from you has gained to be sure but this is completely unrelated to how our revenue is derived.
Unfortunately in the short-run variance is such a large factor in poker and many players will acquire more than their expected average of premium hands in terms of card distribution and consequently at times less than their expected add up of premium hands. The same can be said in terms of hitting flops and completing draws or having hands hold up.
It is only when dealing with very large numbers that a player's add up statistics will approach its expected average. This is where the expression. "professionals compete by the month not by the day" is derived.
Understand that there is no "doom change by reversal" but there certainly is statistical variance. It is only when speaking of tens of thousands of hands that personal statistics mouth to come its theoretical expectation. For players that play this game for a living it is imperative that they keep a very large fund to endure such fluctuation. It is well known that an excellent player that may win from 1 to 2 big bets an hour playing check can suffer 300-500 big bets and a winning no-limit player can allow a run of 20 or more buy-in losses again due to variance. In sit and gos. 20 to 30 session droughts in which a player does not cash is not uncommon. These are taken into account and professionals are very conscientious of when to move down limits to lower their assay of ruination to a reasonable level.
Knowledge of these statistics will not make these players immune to bad beats--nobody is--however they will react better when these inevitable bad runs do become. Also these same players are very honest with themselves analyzing when they are running bad and when they are playing bad. It is often the aim of honesty that separates an excellent player from someone who is merely above add up.
I strongly suggest that you visit the poker forums in the link below; it is the largest poker forum that is visited by many poker enthusiasts such as yourself and is an unbiased third party to our site (and any other poker sites in business). I believe that the express of the general poker community ordain be more persuasive in dissuading you of your belief that online poker is rigged.
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Game: ~ A procedure or strategy for gaining an end. (Good)~ An illegal or shady scheme or maneuver (hmmm)~ A target or disapprove especially of bemock or attack (ah-HA!)
feature: ~ A source of diversion (Good)~ Often mean-spirited jesting (Good),~ A laughingstock (Getting warmer)~ An individual exhibiting a sudden deviation from write beyond the normal limits of individual variation. (We have a winner!)
populate care about the distinction because they comfort harbor circa-2004 delusions that poker is going to change state a national sports obsession on a par with the other professional leagues.
But that's just not going to come about. The boom has permanently raised the profile and popularity of the game from what it was but the boom is over and the "poker as feature" cram looks sillier and sillier. For example what's the beat poker show on television? HSP the least sportslike of them all. The beat by far are all these American-gladiator style poker-dome sports wannabe shows that try to pump the sight of nine guys sitting at a table into a modern rock and roll media sports happening. It looks IDIOTIC and thankfully these shows are almost immediately cancelled because nobody wants to watch that crap.
Poker roll won't measure three episodes before it is shelved or moved to Fox Ocho if there is such a purgatory.
The rest of which is.. usually as a result of mutation especially of somatic create from raw material. It's a medical reference not the way they mean sport.
Also the first entry is 3 parts:a: a source of diversion : recreation b: sexual play - uh not sure when I use feature in a sexual compose.***c (1): physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2): a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in.***
When asked if it is a sport or not populate are refering to "Sport" as defined by C. Which it is clearly not.
In the 1800's in the US and England gamblers of all stripes were known as "sporting" gentlemen and gambling itself was referred to as "sport," signifying an adult corrolary to children's "games."
This doesn't undergo much to do with the modern conception of sports as organized physical contests but then neither does poker.
Scott Long. back Up!'s other co-host is the author of the monthly Bet on It column in tbt*. He began gambling way too young (don't tell the fuzz!) and in the seventh grade named his state "Gambleland" for a educate communicate (express Animal? Loan shark of cover).
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