Gambling Fraud – Know About The Scams Of Offline Gambling

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There are many people who are becoming poor day by day because of hike in the needs of the people. At any situation one can find human trying to sustain his existence by doing something or the other to meet their needs.

By involving in bad and illegal activities these days people are trying to earn their living. There is no doubt that people who involve themselves in gambling activities are getting into dishonest activities. The gamblers very conveniently use up certain dishonest ways to deceive the opponents and obtain victory.

Various illegal activities used in offline gambling.

Many people believe that online gambling involves certain dishonest activities to achieve easy win. Indeed, a general opinion given by many people goes that there are less illegal moves in gambling through internet when compared to live gamble.

Theft of identity is the most rampant in people who gamble. This is very obvious because many gamblers use their cards to get the commodities in the gambling spot.

The people who aren’t aware of such an illegal act easily get into problems. A survey conducted by the FBI brings out the fact that nearly 3,00,000 to 5,00,000 people fall prey to this scheme of theft each year in the U.S. this survey shows that many people aren’t aware of this type of theft.

Steps to escape from such schemes

Educating one about these fraudulent activities is the only way of escaping from falling prey to these activities. Possibilities of a dishonest activities happening can be easily identified by knowing about the various cheating schemes opted by the cheaters. As people aren’t aware of these activities there are many people who are affected.

About 11 grievances a day received by Financial Crimes Division of secret service and about 200 to 550 calls per day that have problems associated to this scheme. This is because they do not have enough knowledge about these illegal activities they easily fall prey to them and also that it pretended legal to them.

There would not be any problem if the people make themselves aware of the various events that take place. It would be better if the people educate themselves about these happenings so that the culprit can be identified and reported to the cops.

The people cannot claim excuse disclosing their insufficient knowledge about this. It is better if people have enough knowledge about this.

Play Let It Ride Poker and Win!

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Let it Ride poker is a variant poker game that uses the poker hand ranking, but that is about all from the original game.

Since it’s a game of negative expectation, you have to play correctly to trim the house’s odds. This article is all about how to play let it ride poker and win as well as have some fun.

The game

Playing let it ride poker is easy.

You play against the dealer, as in blackjack, on a blackjack table in fact, but with a different felt design.

The dealer uses a 52 card deck, and shuffles as the game begins. To begin, each player must make three bets, each with at least the house minimum in each case.

There are three circles for each bet marked $, 2 and 1. The dealer then deals three cards to each player, face up, and two card (called community cards because they are used by all the players) face down.

The object is to have a pair of 10s or better. This is an automatic win. However, your three cards may be very promising and you might hope to use the two community cards to complete a great hand.

So as play begins, the dealer asks if you will let your bet stand (meaning the circle marked 1). You can leave it (let it ride), or take it back if you feel the cards you have are not promising. This bet has nothing to do with the next circle marked 2, however.

The dealer then opens one of the community cards. You check your hand, and if you have a pair of 10s or better, you are a winner. The dealer will ask if you wish to let your second bet stand. You may, or take it back.

You can never take back the bet marked $.

The dealer then opens the second community card, and you can see if you won or lost. Unlike poker, there is no bluffing, no card substitution and no raising a bet.

Strategy – play let it ride poker and win

The strategy to play win at let it ride poker is as follows:

If you have no pair of 10s in the first instance, you ask the first bet back. Simple as that. If a community card gives you pair of tens or better, you will win anyway.

If you have the makings of a flush or royal flush, you may choose to let it ride. The odds are reduced each time a card is exposed, so you can limit your losses in each instance to the $ circle bet.

Following is a guide on what to with what you dealt on the first three cards.

Play let it ride poker and win actions


First Three Cards Let it ride Remove Bet
Pair of 10′s or higher Yes No
Three of a Kind Yes No
3 card possible Straight Flush Yes No
3 card possible Royal Flush Yes No
Flush/Straight with two 10 value cards Yes No
J,9,8/10,9,7/10,8,7 of the same suit Yes No
K,Q,J/Q,J,10 any suit Yes No
Any Pairs from 2-9 No Yes
9,10,J any suit No Yes
A,K,Q any suit No Yes
All Others No Yes

If you follow the above, you can bring the odds of the house into your favor.

Now here follows some good advice for the last card betting.

You must remember that this is a negative expectation game, so if you are a winner already by the forth card, you naturally leave your bet ride for the second circle.

If you are still in a wondering position, for a flush or straight, you can let it ride if your stake is sufficient, as the odds have reduced for house greatly by this point. If not, take back your bet, and leave it for a better hand.

Play let it ride poker win and have some fun!

This is great game for its excitement and is easy play,this is a game for young and young at heart. Try it for yourself and see.

Mixing Up the TAG – Poker Tournament Strategy

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It’s no secret that in the lower levels in online poker your key to success is tight aggressive, especially in the early stages of a poker tournament. Most opponents simply just play themselves out of the tournament way too early by bluffing too much, playing too many hands, and playing too many big pots with marginal situations.

If poker is based on deception, then it goes to reason that the deception has more value when applied successfully in higher levels. I have truly found the couple were leveled you play online poker deception does not carry the kind of value it does when there are bigger stakes involved. Now that’s not to say deception does not have value in the lower levels because if you are playing a tournament you will even find that in two dollar and five dollar buy-in tournaments for example, there are good players. You will have more and more of them at your table as the tournament progresses, because they are employing virtually the same strategy as you are: TAG.

So at some point when you are playing higher levels, or advance deeper into a tournament, deception is an essential requirement of successful poker. However for natural TAG players, it isn’t so easy to come out of your shell and change up your game enough to take advantage of chip up opportunities.

This is where mixing up the tag comes into play, and I have a simple way to inject a little variety in your game, while masking your true identity from your opponents. Let’s face it your opponents are probably tracking your statistics anyhow, and they know you are TAG. So it might be worth a few chips here and there to get involved and, or play some small pots where you are leading the betting with unconventional hole cards. Now I’m not saying you should start playing like a maniac. No, you are still a TAG and that will still get you in the money frequently enough to be profitable. But what you need to do is throw a surprise and in there once in a while, in order to throw your opponents off your trail. And it needn’t cost you a lot.

I do it by selecting a favorite hand, but one with a little chemistry. It could be something like 10-8, J9, 79, etc., and if these hands are suited that would be even better. But just pick one of them and at the beginning of the tournament and decide whenever you get that hand you will play it. Now you don’t have to play it like pocket aces, but maybe more along the lines of AT suited – a medium strength hand that you can get away from if you need to. You don’t even have to be determined to show the hand, but if you win a pot with one of these hands eventually someone is going to take note, and not only that it is going to skew your stats such as VP$IP and pre-flop raising to the point where anyone running software on your strategy is going to have a skewed set of numbers on you.

This is certainly a worthwhile endeavor, because it may actually help to improve your post flop play and if you do it consistently you may very well win some monster pots holding, what everyone else will be thinking are donkey hole cards. Just don`t let the pots get too large, and above all – know when to fold.

Casino Business Plans

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Go into the casino business if you want to have fun while you work. Casino business plans are all the rage these days, as more and more entrepreneurs are getting attracted to this lucrative opportunity. Although, it is a growing business, you would be wise to plan the detail specifics of your operations and conduct adequate market research to understand the extent of this opportunity.

Casino business plans fall into two categories. You can plan to set up either an online casino or invest in the location casino business. For an online business, you could make an outright purchase of a casino on sale. Many online casinos even offer a franchise. They have readymade casino business plans and are willing to set up your business website. You will be given all the tools necessary for your operations.

Pre-built poker and casino rooms are available to set you rolling. But you will have to devise the marketing strategy on your own. Online marketing is expensive and you will have to allocate sufficient funds under this head. The number of hits at your website will decide your ultimate revenues. The start-up costs for an online casino business depends upon your investment capacity. Even a very low initial investment can set you going. Online gaming is a home-based business and can turn out to be very lucrative, if marketed appropriately.

The location casinos cater chiefly to the corporations, the non-profit and civic clubs. The entire casino atmosphere is replicated at the given location. The location casinos are in great demand during conferences to entertain the delegates. They are often used as fundraisers too. Be sure to check if you need a license to operate a casino and study the state government regulations. Get information on the locations that do not permit casinos. Sample casino plans are available at the local Small Business Administration office. Use them as guidelines to draw up your strategy. Then start scouting for employees who are ready to work on a payment-per-event basis.

Have fun and pocket those profits!

Casinos Help Out Gambling Addicts

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That last word is not usually mentioned in gambling circles, to be honest. It is one of those tags that society in general uses to label some people and to be frank, sometimes it is overused, giving card games such as poker a bad name. Yet the reality remains. There are people who get hooked too much and cannot control themselves, leading to the erosion of his relationships and life in general.

Not all is lost, though. In fact, at the Viejas Indian Reservation, there is good news for all involved. A group of addiction counselors were trained on the dangers of compulsive gambling. This was part of a movement that casino operators are starting – to help those who are addicted to gambling. Interesting, no?

According to Mark Sauer of SignonSanDiego:

“We don’t deny there is a problem,” said Bobby Barrett, incoming tribal chairman of Viejas, chairman of the California Tribal Business Alliance and a certified gambling counselor.

“We are concerned with the health and safety of the people in our casinos, and with the risk to people within our own tribal communities.”

Self-help, 12-step programs have mushroomed. There were 10 Gamblers Anonymous meetings a week in San Diego County five years ago; today there are 35.

The number of certified counselors who offer the therapy they say is needed to straighten out a pathological gambler is shockingly low.

“I’m the only one I know of actually doing treatment in the county,” said therapist Suzanne Graupner Pike, who has treated troubled gamblers in Vista since 2003. “There’s no money in it.”

The reason for that, Pike said, is the “impulse-control disorder associated with problem gambling is not considered a disease, like alcohol or drug abuse, and hardly any insurance companies cover it.”

And the patients, Pike added wryly, have no money left.

Most gamblers with serious or severe problems, who make up about 4 percent of California adults, according to the state study, have related psychological problems, such as depression, which are covered by insurance, Pike said.

“Society needs to realize we have a medical crisis (with problem gambling), and there should be federal, state and local funds available for education and treatment, just as with other addictions,” she said.

Barrett said the state’s fledgling Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling has a $3 million annual budget. He said that is not nearly enough, noting, “All of that funding comes from California gaming tribes.”

Lefkowitz said there are two basic types of problem gamblers: those who thrive on action, who tend to be men; and those who gamble to escape, generally women.

Now I am not saying I am biased, but it never occurred to me that women would be a great part of this gambling addiction problem! I guess it is a good thing, what they are doing in California. It is just wishful thinking on my part, I guess, that this sort of thing should never have happened in the beginning. Of course, there are some things we cannot control. Still, activities like this one brings hope to those who need it.

Gambling Addiction and Loneliness

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Having a gambling problem is a very lonely disease. Many people gamble as an escape from loneliness. He or she may think that by gambling, they could get away from the painful feelings of loneliness. This is far from the truth.

When an individual gambles, they start to create their own loneliness. The person with the gambling disorder may not realize that the gambling is contributing.. or may be the sole source of the loneliness.

The problem with compulsive gambling, especially slot machine gambling addiction is that it truly creates a tremendous amount of social isolation and shame. What happens, is that in regard to loneliness, this becomes a catch-22. The person gambles and then feels shame and isolation. The person with the gambling addiction then continues to gamble to get rid of the shameful feeling and the lonely, isolated feelings as well.

Here are some tips to avoid loneliness as it relates to this addiction:

1. Get help for your gambling problem by visiting Gamblers Anonymous or by calling a National Gambling Helpine. You will be able to get tremendous help by calling these two numbers.
2. Start taking care of your physical health by eating right, staying hydrated and exercising daily. This will also help you to feel better emotionally.
3. Start calling friends and family that you have been avoiding while gambling. Start to do this slowly and do not overwhelm yourself.
4. Go to the website Meetup.com and find meetups in your local area. Any interest that you may have should have a local meetup. You will love Meetup.com!
5. Make sure that your follow the instructions in #1 first.. and then all else will naturally follow.
6. Remember that you are not alone in your gambling addiction and that millions of others have experienced your suffering as well.

There is hope for the loneliness of gambling addiction. Your life will get better.. I promise!

Ten Tips to Use the Law of Attraction to Win at Casino Gambling

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The Law of Attraction is the Law of the Universe that states that what you think about and focus on is what you will physically draw into your life to experience.

But what if you wanted to create more money for yourself by winning at gambling. Will the Law work for you then? The answer is Absolutely! — as long as you are vibrating in the right place mentally while you are doing it.

You see, I know this for a fact because I have been both studying the Law of Attraction for 20 years as well as enjoyed gambling for approximately the same amount of time; and I can tell you without a doubt that as my studying and learning has progressed, so has my winnings and jackpots!

While this article will mostly be focused on winning at Video Poker games in casinos (because it is personally my favorite to play and I know the most about it) I am sure you will find a lot of tips here that can help you win at other games as well.

Here are a few simple tips to help you get into vibrational alignment with winning as well.

1. Don’t gamble with money you cannot afford to lose.

Now, this may sound like typical “moral” advice that anyone would tell you, but from a Law of Attraction standpoint it is especially important. The fact of the matter is, if you are playing with rent or bill money then you are playing with scared or guilt money! Playing with scared money will put you in a negative vibrational place right from the start and will make it much more difficult to draw more money to you.

If money is a little tight right now – start a JACKPOT JAR in your home. (Be sure to write Jackpot Jar on it by the way. This way every time you look at it you are giving yourself a positive affirmation. Eventually you will come to believe that that is exactly what it is. ) Put some money in it every week. It doesn’t matter if it is $2, $5 or $10. Just put a little aside until you have accumulated the amount you would like to bring to the casino with you. Maybe you can cash in the penny or change jar you have sitting in the corner of your bedroom that is doing nothing.

The point is to go on your trip with “guilt-free” or “fear free” money. You will automatically be in a better vibrational place knowing that it really doesn’t matter if you win or lose it, as long as you have fun!

2. Visualize Winning Before You Go

My father was one of the luckiest Video Poker players I have ever met. When he hit, it was usually for some pretty big amounts. I remember a $13,000 jackpot, a few $8,000 jackpots and too many $4,000 and $1,000 jackpots to count.

Now the funny thing is my father didn’t technically believe in the Law of Attraction per se, but a favorite hobby of his was to daydream (or visualize) about his next trip to Atlantic City and how he was going to win. He would say things like “First I am going to go to the quarter machine and hit $1,000 there, then I am going to take that money and go play the dollar machine and hit $4,000 there and then I am going to sit for an hour or two winning smaller amounts until I hit the big one.” (Is it any wonder I am a fan of Video Poker when I see someone win at it so easily?)

Now again, he didn’t do these visualizations as a “technique” to help him win, he just did it because it was fun for him think about. Regardless of the reason why he was doing it – I can tell you it absolutely worked!

It got to the point where if he won less than 3 jackpots in a weekend, it was considered a “slow” weekend.
Eventually he got so good at winning – the thought of losing didn’t even enter his mind. And Law of Attraction being what it is (what you think and believe is what you get) he hardly ever did lose.

So start visualizing winning before you even go. Start small if a “huge jackpot” seems too unbelievable to you. Say O.K. first, I’ll win $100 here, then win $300 there. Imagine the perfect hands that will be dealt to you. Feel the excitement you would feel as if you had really won. Envision yourself counting a huge wad of bills on your trip home and how good it feels. Do this as often as possible before your trip so you are already on a great vibrational level before you even arrive at the casino.

3. Practice at Home

If you are reading this, chances are you have access to the internet. The internet has tons of free sites where you can practice “winning.”

Find your favorite game free online and practice how winning feels. (Don’t pay attention to any losing hands in your free play) just focus on how “easy” it is to win. Feel as if you are playing with real money. Feel the excitement, feel your confidence grow as you get one winning hand after another.

Now that you are fully prepared for your trip, here are more tips for when you get there:

4. Watch Your Words

While negative thoughts can keep you from winning, those thoughts spoken aloud can be ten times more powerful. Be careful not to fall into typical “casino talk” that is so common for players. For instance:

How much are you down?

How much money do you have left?

Nobody seems to be hitting today (or the opposite).

Everybody seems to be hitting today except me.

I’m never lucky in this place.

I can’t get any play.

I can’t seem to do anything

I hate this placev
This place Sucks!

Remember, Universe is following your lead. When you utter these kinds of thoughts and feelings, universe responds as always by bringing more of it to you.

Try more positive statements such as:

My winning machine is calling to me right now, I just have to listen.

My jackpot is waiting for me here somewhere and I am going to find it.

The right machine is going to jump right out at me.

I love coming here, I always have such a good time!

5. Truly Enjoy The Game While You Are Playing

Stop focusing on the credits that are going in and out or the amount of chips left on the table and bring your focus back to the enjoyment of the game itself.

There have been many times, especially in Video Poker where I have gone into “auto-mode”. I have been playing the game for so many years, that not much thought is needed to automatically hold certain cards that are dealt in a hand. Unfortunately this leaves my attention open to focus on the amount of credits in the machine instead, and if the amount is going down, my vibration goes with it.

I have since learned to refocus on the fun of the game itself. I now slow down my auto response. I sometimes pretend to be a novice to the game. I get myself deliberately excited over something as little as a pair of 2′s that are dealt to me, wondering how cool it would be to draw another one –possibly even two more of them! Yeah! I no longer wait for only the “big” hands to get me excited. I purposely enjoy the game. The more I enjoy, the more I am vibrating positively. The more I am vibrating positively, the more good hands I bring to myself that give me something to be genuinely happy about.

So slow it down. Remember why you are there. To have fun. If you are focused on having fun, the money will come naturally.

6. Switch Up Your Game

Did you ever wonder why “beginners luck” occurs so often? I firmly believe it is because a person who doesn’t know how a game is played, can’t have any negative thoughts or resistance associated with it.

An experienced video poker player may know that 9 out of 10 times that 5th card for the Royal Flush will not come up, but a novice has no idea. So where an experienced player might not believe it is going to happen because it is usually difficult, a novice has no such mental resistance.

If you feel you are not having any luck at your usual game of choice, go play a game you have no clue about. I can’t tell you how many times I have won money and didn’t even know what I hit or did to get it. What fun! Then I take the winnings from that and go back to my usual game with a whole new winning vibration.

7. Go on a Good Luck Charm Treasure Hunt

So, do good luck charms really work? We are talking about Law of Attraction here, so obviously they will work if you believe they will.

Does it have to be a certain charm? Not at all. My mother and I have been going to Atlantic City together for years. One of our favorite things to do when things are going slow is go on a Good Luck Charm Treasure hunt.

When someone wins a machine jackpot, the casinos place little white cards in the coin slot that says “Congratulations! You are a winner!, as the person is getting paid. Quite often people leave these lying around and I love to find them and use them as my good luck charm because they already have winning associated with them. If however, after 4 or 5 hands they haven’t brought any luck, we look for other things.

Sometimes it can just be a swizzle stick lying around. I will pick it up and hold it out as if it is the Holy Grail and claim “This is it! This is the one!” and gently place it on my machine. We’ve had more fun coming up with the strangest of charms to use and experiment with.

One time we drew a little Kilroy figure on a piece of paper. (You know the guy with the big nose and hands looking over the wall?). We put him on the top of our machine and had all sorts of fun with him. We would rub his little bald head before hitting the play button. My mom would turn him over and make him face the wall if he didn’t give us the second hand we wanted. We ended up having such a good time and so many laughs, that we ended up doing very well that day.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it was “Kilroy” who made us win, but we were having so much fun playing with him, our mood and vibration so light and happy, that Universe had no choice but to respond in kind and matched our vibration with lots of winning hands and money. Remember it is all about the vibration you are sending out. Abundant good feelings brings more abundance in other ways.

8. If You Can’t Change Your Negative Vibe – Walk Away For Awhile

Sometimes no matter what you do, you can’t shake a losing attitude. If you find this happening to you it is time for a little mental distraction. You know the saying “No sense in throwing away good money after bad”

If you are operating from a negative place, it will only bring more negative (i.e. more losing). So it is time to walk away for awhile and change your mood in other ways. If you are lucky enough to have a hotel room go there for awhile. Rent a $10.00 comedy on the television (believe me you would lose a lot more than that if you kept playing negatively for 2 hours on the casino floor) and lighten your mood.

Maybe go window shopping in the Casino mall, listen to the live band playing in the lounge, go for a walk on the boardwalk or the strip. Go get yourself a great snack or meal you would normally not eat at home. Up your vibration, feel better and then go back and play. Again, it is all about vibration.

9. Put Your Emotion Into Your Winning Hands – Not Your Losing Ones

Let’s say you have 4 cards to a winning hand dealt to you and you do not pull the last card that you need. What is your immediate first response? Do you feel hopeful that at last the cards are starting to line up for you and a winning hand is on its way soon or do you feel disappointment or anger that you “missed” it and find yourself fuming for the next 20 minutes.

Again, your vibrational reaction makes all the difference. If you focus only on the hands you didn’t win guess what you will get? More non-winning hands. If you put your emotion into the excitement of the winning hands, no matter how small, guess what you will get? More winning hands.

Learn to change your focus and put more of your happy emotion into the winning hands only. This leads us to the last and most important tip to winning more with the Law of Attraction.

10. Gratefulness

Personally I have found that nothing helps me win more than constant gratefulness while I am playing. If I win even as little as 5 coins I will say “Thank you Universe and more of that please!” Like I mentioned above, I purposely get myself more excited about the wins and have learned to feel little or no emotion at the losses. I also make a concentrated effort to appreciate every thing around me. I am grateful for the air conditioned casino in the summertime. The fun sounds and lights I am surrounded by. The free drinks. The shouts of people winning at the craps table across the casino ( I love hearing the excited sounds of others winning! It boosts my spirits and makes me want to win even more, so I can share in the excitement.) I enjoy the company of the people I go down to the casino with, the food in all the restaurants, the clean hotel room.

Remember the reason you went was to have fun. Make that your priority and Universe will respond in kind and make sure it is fun for you.

Happy Creating!

Do I Really Have a Gambling Problem?

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I wanted to write an article on this topic because you probably have seen a lot of articles already written on how to identify whether or not you really have a gambling problem or gambling addiction.

Most of the time you will be asked to answer a series of questions, and if you say yes to most of these questions than you do indeed have a problem.This sounds very simple.:)

I truly believe that you do not have to answer a series of questions to know that you truly have a gambling problem. You probably think I am crazy for saying this, however, I will explain below why I truly believe this.

You will KNOW IN YOUR HEART that you have a gambling problem. You will KNOW IN YOUR HEART that your life is not the same as it used to me. You will also KNOW IN YOUR HEART that almost EVERYTHING in your life has changed for the worst. You will also KNOW IN YOUR HEART that it is your responsibility to yourself and to your family to stop destroying yourself.

When you have a gambling problem you will know it,deep in your heart of hearts. Everything in your life is different when you are gambling compulsively and additively. Every area of your life will truly have changed for the worst. And you will know this in your heart without answering a series of questions.

There is help for a gambling problem, and you are truly not alone in your addiction. Many people throughout the world suffer silently with a gambling addiction.This is a silent and secret addiction because nobody can smell it, or see it.

Do not continue to suffer with your gambling problem and try o get your life back. Gambling addiction has the highest rate of suicide, and it can also progress rapidly. Make a decision to start your recovery now. Contact your local gambling hotline, depending on your country, and get yourself some help. You are worth it.

Poker Calculator News – Some Big Minds Behind Poker Software

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If you’ve been around the world of online poker long enough, you are quite likely aware of the sub-industry devoted to self-analysis tools. Broadly speaking, these are programs which grab all your hand histories and generate statistics about your play, in the service of self-analysis, so you can find your weaknesses and improve. By and large, the industry leader in this field has been Poker Tracker, preferred by very respectable online communities. Certainly, Poker Tracker has become the benchmark by which new products are compared, and I would argue deservedly so. I used it myself for a good while, with a modest database of about 55K hands.

You’ll notice, careful reader, that I say, “has been Poker Tracker,” because I submit for your consideration that a new benchmark has been set. The good people of Poker Academy have been kind enough now to bring us Prospector.

Who are the “good people” of Poker Academy? Well this is fundamental to our discussion here because within our midst of all the designers of poker software in this industry, is the honored presence of some pretty well distinguished University researchers, recognized the world over.

The researchers came to prominence in July of 2007, when an event occurred in Vancouver, BC, Canada, that highlighted the first ever Man vs Machine Poker Championship. This contest pitted Phil “Unabomber” Laak (who is quite a poker math enthusiast himself) and Prince Ali Esmali against Polaris, an AI limit hold’em expert system developed by the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group. The final score was 2-1-1 for Man, not exactly a ringing knockout for Homo sapiens, but Phil Laak did very well and played his absolute best game to win here. The battle was actually described as grueling by both of the humans. Polaris, the “Machine” apparently had no comment on the match. My bigger point here is, yes, there is a group of AI researchers pushing the envelope in game theory and decision-making with incomplete information, using poker as their model.

Using AI (artificial intelligence) to solve problems of incomplete information has potential implications for political science, economics, emergency management, warfare, stock exchanges, climate change, and did I mention these guys are a pretty serious brains trust? The leader of the group, Darse Billings, titled his Ph.D. thesis, “Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker.” If you have the time and are willing to exert the effort, he essentially lays out the road map of teaching computers how to play poker, particularly how to deal with misinformation (bluffing) and incomplete information (not seeing your opponents’ hole-cards), with suggestions about the implications for broader problems of decision-making in real-time, dynamic, complex situations.

Soon enough, with big minds like these guys developing products, my feeling here is that there is going to be software, where the term “BOT” simply won’t do justice to the depths and capabilities of poker software of the future.

Play Casino at Monte Carlo Casino

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Monaco is a beautiful French principality tucked away along the French Rivera, with the area of Monte Carlo serving as the central feature attraction. The entire country of Monaco is only a total of 2 square kilometers, or approximately a mile and a half long, but the exquisite beauty of the small Mediterranean country makes it well worth the visit. The main attractions in Monte Carlo are the luxurious hotel and casino resorts where everyone from the rich and famous down to the ordinary tourist can feel like royalty playing the tables or the slot machines in style. Most of the casinos in Monte Carlo do not open until the mid to late afternoon, but do not post closing times, as they will usually stay open as long as gamblers want to continue playing.

Play Various Games at Monte Carlo Casino

Without a doubt the most famous casino, the Casino de Monte Carlo, is located right in the heart of Monte Carlo. This grandiose building has been standing since 1863 and reflects the Renaissance and royalty style of architecture that was popular during the era of Napoleon III. The different gambling rooms are divided into fun names like the American Room, the European Room, the Renaissance Hall and Rose Hall. The American room usually opens the earliest, starting at 10am, and offers American style slot machines, while the European room opens soon after with a variety of roulette, baccarat and many other European and American table games. If you are more interested in video poker, Rose Hall usually opens just before mid-afternoon. For those high rollers that want to play in privacy, the Casino de Monte Carlo also offers the Prive Salons and the Salon Super Prive, which offer table games, chemin-de-fer and baccarat, although the Salon Super Prive is available by appointment only. Talk about an elegant place to gamble.

Gorgeous de Monte Carlo Casino

Although paling in comparison to the gorgeous Casino de Monte Carlo, the remaining casinos in Monte Carlo are still built of beautiful architecture and style. Centrally located to the Casino de Monte Carlo right near the water in Monte Carlo, gamblers of all abilities will enjoy the Loews Monte Carlo Hotel and Sun Casino, which overlooks the Mediterranean and is only a short walk from the Casino de Monte Carlo. Another fabulous casino to try while in Monte Carlo is the Café de Paris, a hotel of grand size and quality that offers a wonderful place to vacation in style, with gambling that opens in the early afternoon hours and remains open as long as gamblers are ready to partake in the action.

Visit the Monte Carlo Sporting Club and Casino

If you are interested in taking a stroll along the sidewalks overlooking the Mediterranean, or for a nice 20-minute walk down the beach, you may want to try the Monte Carlo Sporting Club and Casino. This uniquely glamorous casino is surrounded by nightclubs and pubs with a nightly cabaret and dinner dancing for those who get bored at the casinos. Unfortunately, the casino portion of the Monte Carlo Sporting Club is only open from June through September, the warmest and most populated tourist season. If you are in Monte Carlo during these short summer months, this is an absolutely wonderful place for a truly remarkable casino gaming experience.