Online Poker Tool Raises Concerns

Poker bots are raising eyebrows among serious online poker players, as they become concerned they may be matching wits against a computer program that has an unfair advantage. With the surge of poker popularity still growing around the world, concerns are raised not only on the ethical nature of poker bots and similar tools, but about their effect on the character of the game.

By reading all visible cards on the table and then running the information through a poker odds calculator, the software will indicate hand strength and cue a player when they should call, check, raise, re-raise, or fold.
One such product is called “The Poker Advantage” and is being billed as a poker players best friend…

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Wed, November 30th, 2005

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  • BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
  • RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
  • LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
  • BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
  • DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
  • RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
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