2006 January 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Bodog Poker continues to make great strides in an attempt to capture a share of the lucrative online poker market with the release of their new poker software upgrades. The features are very impressive, with useful new functionality and a slick dashboard that could well become the industry standard…

LAS VEGAS (PRESS RELEASE) — Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: HET) today announced that Jeffrey Pollack, vice president of sports and entertainment marketing for subsidiary Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc., is taking on the added role of commissioner of the World Series of Poker, subject to the receipt of any necessary regulatory approvals.

IT STARTED six months ago when Steven Baker was lounging around on his couch channel-surfing and stumbled across a poker tournament. He was intrigued and soon hooked.Before long he was inviting his St Kilda teammates around for card nights and finding fellow poker devotees at other clubs as the latest craze in AFL ranks gathered momentum.Tomorrow it reaches its pinnacle with Baker and several other AFL stars to meet their hero, Melbourne’s world poker champion Joe Hachem, for a private game with

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Leading female poker player Annie Duke is starring in GSN’s ANNIE DUKE TAKES ON THE WORLD, a hybrid poker show allowing amateur poker players to play against a world class professional. The announcement was made today at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour by Ian Valentine, Senior Vice President of Programming, GSN.ANNIE DUKE TAKES ON THE WORLD will feature Duke as host and Regan Burns (”Oblivious,” “Titus”) as co-host, both taunting and

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — A new, $50,000 buy-in HORSE contest has been added to the tournament schedule for the 2006 World Series of Poker at the Rio(R) All-Suites Hotel&Casino.The addition of the high buy-in contest — a combination of no-limit hold’em, Omaha, razz, stud and stud eight or better — marks the first time the World Series of Poker will offer an event with a buy-in of more than $10,000.”We’ve heard from a number of players that a high buy-in event will enhance th

With the intense proliferation of online poker rooms in the last few years, many a brick and mortar poker player must have felt some frustration at the long lines and tedious pen and paper process to register for and participate in poker tournaments. In the United Kingdom, in the Grosvenor chain of casinos, someone has heard their grumbling and moved to answer it with a 21st Century solution.
An electronic system called “CardRoomMAGIC” will be installed in all Grosvenor casinos, which will take on most of the manual labor involved in keeping a card room operational. A large plasma screen will display the progress of tournaments and other vital poker info to participants as well…

The United Kingdom and Scandinavia will each be getting the Poker Academy soon; namely “Poker Academy Texas Hold’em” which is a software program that uses artificial intelligence to teach users how to play the super popular Hold’em poker games.
Merscom LLC, the video game publisher of “Poker Acadamey”, has built the software around “Poki”, the name given to the AI system that focuses on poker. The system gives the computer the ability to adapt to the person playing the game, changing its style accordingly, just as a real person might in a live game. The poker bot uses learning algorithms that are based on a deep understanding of how the game is played and uses a ton of statistical modeling information to deliver an educational environment….