2008 March 21 Poker News, Events and Happenings

In a game of luck, instruction and strategy are immaterial. This was the premise that guided Michael Dedonno and Dr. Douglas K. Detterman on their quest to determine if poker was a game of skill. Their paper in the current issue of…

DOVER Three brothers accused of helping a former state trooper in robbing participants in a high-stakes poker game near Dover have been arrested in Philadelphia.

Three brothers accused of helping a former state trooper in robbing participants in a high-stakes poker game have been arrested, police said.

Is it luck of the draw in poker? The answer is ‘no’, according to new findings from two psychology studies. In the first study, DeDonno had 41 college students play eight games, totaling 200 hands, of Turbo Texas Hold’em, a computerized simulation of 10-player Hold’em poker.

The hand (from an entertaining episode of "High Stakes Poker") — Blinds: 300/600 with a 1200 straddle. Gold’s stack: ~$391,000; Farha’s stack: Over $391,000. Neither player’s stack is actually given specifically during the hand…

Is it luck of the draw in poker? No, says Michael DeDonno, a doctoral student from Case Western Reserve University. Based on findings from two psychology studies, he suggests putting your bets on skills over luck when playing the card game.

With the Easter Weekend drawing nigh, online poker room Absolute Poker wants to celebrate by putting up a slew of guaranteed poker tournaments equaling more than $225,000. Included in these guarantees is the $10,000 Absolute Poker Easter Egg Hunt event. If a player joins a game with EGG as the prefix, they are up for part of the $10,000 prize…