willing to take the gamble that poker is a skill?
According to this article posted a few days ago, a Colorado court has ruled that poker is a game of skill and is therefore not gambling. The defendants in the case were cleared of charges related to illegal gambling for running a private poker game. By trotting out testimony of the amount of skill relative [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2009 by Secor | Filed Under Article Review, Culture, Luck, Online Poker, Poker
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Pokertron: Rise of the Machines
Here is the sequal to a post from several months back. Check it out here. It seems that Micheal Bowling (pictured below) and his team of computer scientists from the University of Alberta are the new team to beat in Vegas. They have vastly improved their program Polaris. It now has the ability to consistently [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2008 by Secor | Filed Under Article Review, Culture, Poker, Poker Players
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Trailer Park Casino
They may seem silly or inane, but bumbling criminal stories are funny. Two men in Greenwood Mississippi were caught running illegal video poker machines out of a trailer. Link to the article here It’s no major felony, just a misdemeanor. What’s funny though is that someone called the police to inform them what was going [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Secor | Filed Under Article Review, Culture, Equipment, Humor, Legal, Poker
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