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Poker Bots

February 20, 2011 Is Online Poker Rigged?

A really good article/op-ed piece on Pokerati about poker bots Tim Chilcote. Tim sat down with Darse Billings of the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group, the folks who created the poker bot Polaris that played Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, to get some insight into what sort of threat a poker bot would [...]

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Another Rigtard Email

December 6, 2010 Is Online Poker Rigged?

I constantly get a stream of emails from rigtards. Some I post but 99% of the rest go in the trash. I don’t know why they feel the need to write to me. For instance, my Proof That Online Poker is Rigged parody posts has 250 comments. Here are some of the gems from that [...]

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Playing the Lotto: ZOMG It’s Riggedz

June 1, 2010 Is Online Poker Rigged?

I was reading an interesting article about a two year old study that shows that poor people spend approximately 9% of their wages buying lottery tickets. I’ve always felt that this was the cruelest joke in the online gambling debate. Everyone who knows anything about the lottery system knows that poor people are the biggest [...]

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Sigh: Online Poker Still Isn’t Rigged

May 31, 2010 Is Online Poker Rigged?

Someone just posted a comment on my 2005 post about why online poker is not rigged and I think it brings up some interesting points I haven’t necessarily covered before. So instead of responding where it will be buried in a 5 year old post, I’ll respond to “duh” here. Warning a lot of sarcasim [...]

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Incredible Odds

March 11, 2010 Is Online Poker Rigged?

I had the pleasure of meeting a local musician here in Bangkok the other night. Actually I had seen him playing over at Moonshine’s once or twice but he stopped in to say hello to my friend Jack and we were introduced formally. Tony is an older American guy. How old, I don’t know but [...]

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Data Mining – Does Isildur1 Have a Case Against Brian Hastings?

December 24, 2009 Is Online Poker Rigged?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, the big news in the nosebleed stakes poker circles these days has been Hastings cleaning Isildur1 for over $4 million in one session. It’s since been revealed that Brian Hastings, Brian Townsend, and Cole South spent some time combining their hand histories against Isildur1 so they could formulate [...]

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Online Poker and Data Mining

December 24, 2009 Is Online Poker Rigged?

Paul Nobles from Bluff takes a rather interesting look at the whole data mining brouhaha that’s been going on of late. I started to leave a comment on the Pokerati site but my response started to get a little unruly in terms of length so I thought I would just direct you there to read [...]

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Even Play Money Poker Is Rigged!

July 27, 2009 Is Online Poker Rigged?

I’m not even sure how I ran across this but somehow I found this posting on Facebook. Claire Frampton (Portsmouth) wrote53 minutes ago my son was new to playing so i watched and helped him out but was noticed on quite a few occasions he ended up losing most of his chips coz all the [...]

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Losing Wasn’t My Fault

April 19, 2009 Is Online Poker Rigged?

Someone sent a link to this to me. If this is your pic, please ping me and I would love to give you credit for it.

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