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You may be surprised but poker players can read their opponents’ hands, not their hand of cards, but their hand, that is fingers, palms etc. According to an FBI agent, the hands can be a useful tool of information to the opponent. Poker players habitually don’t realize that their hands are revealing exactly what they’re thinking or intending by the actions of their hands. At a table, players may be sitting with their hands together or rubbing their hands, or maybe they have their hands off the table. But if they get in a strong position, apparently they tend to “release” and separate their hands.
A video has been produced by World Series of Poker Academy, licensed poker school of the WSOP. The instructional video is part of an online poker school being launched this week by the World Series of Poker Academy on its website, enrolment comes with a fee.
Steering the challenge James Dempsey along with others saw the British invade the 2010 WSOP. Having won five bracelets thus far, the United Kingdom is tied with Canada with the most bracelet wins of any other country outside the US during the 2010 World Series of Poker. The winners so far are; Praz Bansi, James Dempsey, Richard Ashby, Mike Ellis, and Steve Jelinek.
Bansi was the first Brit to win with the 2010 WSOP $1,500 No Limit Hold’em worth $515k. To date, Bansi has won two WSOP bracelets, has eight cashes, and more than $1.4 million in WSOP earnings. James Dempsey followed suit winning the 2010 WSOP $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em worth $197K. Richard Ashby joined the British spotlight with his 2010 WSOP win in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud worth a $140K win. , Ashby has nabbed one WSOP bracelet, 11 cashes, and more than $604K in WSOP earnings. Mike Ellis has had a modestly successful stint so far in the World Series of Poker and stole a win in the 2010 WSOP $1,500 No Limit Hold ’em event earning him the coveted gold bracelet and $581K.
However dark horse of the tourney, Steve Jelinek took the gold bracelet and pocketed a quarter million dollars as well. Jelinek has won one WSOP bracelets, with four cashes, and close to $300K in WSOP earnings since 2005. There is more to come!
Korean police nabbed 33 hackers who were using bots, or web robots, to cheat online poker players from November 2009 through May of this year. Online gaming is a popular target for online attacks, but usually it’s the gaming site owner that is targeted, not the players.
These bots are commonly used to launch attacks that swamp Web sites and servers with so much traffic that they can’t keep up with requests and either becomes painfully slow or crash until the attack can be stopped or mitigated. However, one an end point is infected with a bot, that bot can be often used to download other types of attack software, or do other things on the system: which is apparently what these attackers chose to do with their poker cheats.
Gioia International has announced that it has completed their revolutionary new poker room, RealDealPoker with the revolutionary system, designed to replicate a live game of poker by replacing the computer based random number generator. The real card dealing system that scrambles, shuffles and deals real decks of cards, digitises the results and then translates them to its online poker table games via a computer programme, is claimed to be a world first.
Using real cards means that players can be offered players more functions like you would find in a “live” game of poker including a “cut function”, the deployment of “burn cards”, a real scramble and the ability to audit entire deck arrays. For a fee, players can choose to have an audit completed if they question the results of any game dealt with this system. It looks as though things are changing in the world of online poker.
Because in Las Vegas, gamblers must be twenty-one years of age to enter a casino, one of the best young professional poker players in the world was prevented from playing in the World Series of Poker the past several years. However, now Annette Obrestad has reached maturity, and has reached the magical age of twenty one years of age, she is now ready to descend on Las Vegas and make a splash at the tables. Obrestad will not be catching any of the other top players off guard, because she has played in many pro tournaments located in jurisdictions that allow eighteen year-old gamblers.
Heading into the WSOP, which begins this week, Obrestad has been honing her skills online. On Sunday, Obrestad won the PokerStars Sunday 500, and in the process, took home $87,000 that will be used for some of her buy-ins at the WSOP. Will she beat Phil Ivey who made the longest run through the Main Event of any pro player, landing at the final table. Ivey fell short of winning the top prize, however, and will be back again this year to try and rewrite history.