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partypoker and PartyCasino Partner with McLaren Racing - Poker/Casino/Betting News from BankrollMob.com

partypoker and PartyCasino Partner with McLaren Racing - Poker/Casino/Betting News from BankrollMob.com:   The parent company of partypoker and PartyCasino, Entain, has inked a multi-year partnership with McLaren Racing, starting from the current 2021 Formula 1 season. The partnership sees b [...]

Three 888poker Players Hit BLAST Jackpot worth $1M - Poker/Casino/Betting News from BankrollMob.com

 ... ''' Three extremely lucky 888poker players have turned their $100 buy-ins into a share of a million-dollar payday in just under 10 minutes.

Check out their amazing Blast Jackpot win!

Just like the usual scenario, three players sat down at an 888poker online BLAST Jackpot table for a game. Little did they know that a mammoth-sized $1,000,000 prize pool had landed at their table!

BLAST Jackpot games are one of the hottest items on 888poker right now. The best thing about this million-dollar prize is that the three players bought in for only $100 each.

BLAST Jackpot Hit for $1M

As soon as the prize pool was set, two players from Canada and one from the UK were guaranteed a slice of the million-dollar prize.

• Mikaxe took first-place for $700,000
• ayemaxx08 took second for $200,000
• aatorblood13 got third for $100,000  '''' ..........

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Chris Moorman vs Wife Katie Lindsay for WSOP Gold Ring - Poker/Casino/Betting News from BankrollMob.com

On Wednesday evening, something unusually special happened online in the WSOP January Super Series when married poker couple Chris "Robotobob47" Moorman and Katie "katelin" Lindsay found themselves on a heads-up match for a coveted WSOP gold ring.

Both the couple happily shared their thoughts after the event, starting with Moorman.

He said, "Winning my first circuit ring ended up giving me the weirdest range of emotions I've ever felt in poker. For the past few years, Katie has always said to me how much she wants to win one. I really believe she'd rather win one more than a WSOP bracelet if you take the money out of the equation. For me it's never been a focus or goal of mine, so to get heads up with her knowing how much more she wanted it than me I definitely found it tough to handle mentally."

He continued, "The competitor in me had to give 100% as I knew there would be no point in letting her win, she would have to earn the victory the hard way, but in turn I feel like I didn't play my best and I'd be the first to admit she outplayed me heads up and I got very lucky to win in the end. Normally there is no better feeling than winning a tournament but instead of feeling good and happy when I won a huge hand after backdooring into the nuts versus her I felt guilty for potentially taking a dream away from her. I've honestly never felt that before even against close friends or horses."

"The rest of the final table was business as usual but to get heads up with one another for the first time ever was very special and is a story and experience that is really fun to share with friends and family. I'll try and be extra helpful around the house this week for stealing the ring off her but I've no doubt that she will get it in the future because she is probably the most driven person I know."

What Katie Lindsay said...

Lindsay revealed that while her husband was at home playing the tournament, she actually played most of it while out to dinner with a girlfriend. She went back home to finish playing when there was a break near the final table.

She said, "Chris and I rarely play poker in the same room so it was funny yelling at each other after big hands from opposite sides of the house. Also, we love battling for the chip lead so there was definitely a lot of banter going on there. We had a massive hand that went down six-handed where he opened small blind and I re-raised with queens in the big blind. He jammed with ace-king and I called. He had me covered at this point 1.7 mil to my 1 mil I believe, but luckily I held."

She continued, "There is no soft playing between us, we are always battling every time we end up on a table together, and we definitely showed that in this event. Once we got heads up I moved into the office where he was playing, as I thought it would be a fun dynamic to be able to see each other's faces during hands. This actually was a big heads up for us as it wasn't about the money, it's about the titles and the accomplishments. I have been fighting hard for my first circuit ring and I really wanted it. Chris had never won a circuit event either so there was more than just bragging rights on the line."

Chris Moorman vs Wife Katie Lindsay for WSOP Gold Ring - Poker/Casino/Betting News from BankrollMob.com: On Wednesday evening, something unusually special happened online in the WSOP January Super Series when married poker couple Chris 'Robotobob47' Moorman and Katie 'katelin' Linds [...]

10 Poker Scandals

There is a saying, where is a lot of money,  temptations are great.

Below are some of the great online poker scams presented by www.tightpoker.com and at the end of the quote you have a link to the full article.

''' Ultimate Bet / Absolute Poker Go Bust

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was passed in 2006, making transactions between online sites and financial institutions unlawful. This led to many online poker sites pulling out of the US market, but Ultimate Bet / Absolute Poker continued to trade alongside other names such as PokerStars and Full Tilt – their combined player pool was known as the Cereus Poker Network.

This all changed in 2011 after ‘Black Friday’, when the US department of justice and the FBI closed down the operation of sites in the US, with Absolute Poker / Ultimate Bet being indicted. The federal government seized the funds, which amounted to no more than $3 million, despite the balances of the players amounting to more than $50 million. The main reason there was such a huge hole in the finances is because the site had paid out the victims of fraud with other player’s funds.

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• Full Tilt ‘Ponzi’ Scheme

‘Black Friday’ would also uncover another poker scandal, this time associated with Full Tilt, who were the second biggest poker site at the time. Alongside indictments aimed at PokerStars and Absolute Poker / Ultimate Bet owners and employees, Ray Bitar and Nelson Burtnick of Full Tilt poker were indicted. These individuals were charged with charged with fraud, money laundering, and violation of United States federal gambling laws.

On September 20th 2011, further accusations of defrauding poker players out of more than $300 million were made against Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Rafe Furst and Ray Bitar. The justice department claimed that Full Tilt were running a ‘Ponzi’ scheme, allowing them to pay out $444 million to themselves and other famous poker players. More than a year and a half later, Ray Bitar reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and was ordered to surrender his assets.

PokerStars would eventually purchase Full Tilt poker and the majority of the funds lost were paid back to players. This would take nearly three years in all.

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• The Lock Poker Scam

In May 2012, Lock Poker made the move back to the Cake network, after allegedly buying the network and renaming it Revolution Gaming (this claim was later found out to be false). It was this point that player pay outs started to slow down and this caused other skins on the network to slow down with payments, laying the blame firmly at the feet of Lock Poker.

In October 2013, Lock suddenly started its own network, with brand new software developed for the site. The slow payment to players continued and eventually these stopped altogether. In April of 2015 Lock Poker shut down altogether and it is believed to have cost the player base millions of dollars. The site was regulated in Curacao and many players have criticized the local government for their complete inaction on the matter.

The Lock Poker scandal shows a good example of a site which offers bonuses, promotions and rake-back levels which are just too high, making the running of the company unsustainable.

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• Pitbull Poker Scandel

In 2009 another scandal hit the online poker world, when ‘chesterboy’, a user of the 2+2 forum made claim that Pitbull poker might have super-users on the site. ''' ........

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ReBel is the name, poker is its game

... ''' History of AIs in Skill-based Games

May 2015 - four poker players named Bjorn Li, Dong Kim, Doug Polk, and Jason Les, battled against AI Claudico. The 80,000 hands challenge that lasted 8 weeks concluded with 3 of the 4 pros winning considerably against the program, though the computer experts called it a tie.

2016 - the AI named AlphaGO created by Google DeepMind software had beaten the best Go players in the world. Go is a Chinese game resembling chess involving two players and determined strategies.

January 2017 - the contest "Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante" involved AI Libratus defeating poker pros Daniel McAulay, Dong Kim, Jason Les, and Jimmy Chou.

2019 - Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers developed AI systems, Cepheus and DeepStack, that are able to handle complex games like poker. After five years of research, the team claimed it had successfully solved 6-Max No-Limit Hold'em poker.

ReBel is the name, poker is its game

The name of the bot is the shortened form of "Recursive Belief-based Learning" which focuses on self-learning amid imperfect information conditions. In the paper's title it said "Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Search for Imperfect-Information Games, written by Noam Brown, Anton Bakhtin, Adam Lerer, and Qucheng Gong from the Facebook AI Research team."

ReBel was made based on the earlier poker AI Deepstack, the first bot to beat a human back in 2017. Just like AI Libratus, ReBel makes use of self-play to learn how to play heads-up No-Limit Hold'em. The main difference with ReBel versus other early poker AI versions is that it uses the so-called public belief states (PBS).

PBS is a new self-learning mechanism used by ReBel, which includes not only analyzing current information about the game but it also has an intuitive decision-making skills based on the previous moves made by the opponents.

ReBel takes into consideration not only the info about the visual game state, like the bet sizing, known cards, and even the range of hands the opponent may have, but it also accounts for each player's belief about the state they are in. This is somewhat similar to how a real human might consider whether an opponent thinks he is ahead or behind in a certain hand.

To make this possible, ReBel trains two different AI models via self-play reinforcement learning: a value network and a policy network. The bot then operates on PBS.

Simply put, ReBel not only analyzes the hand itself but it also analyzes how to opponent evaluates it, just like what successful (human) players do.

ReBel's Results Revealed

The Facebook team conducted experiments in which ReBel played two-player version of Hold'em, turn endgame Hold'em (a simplified version of the game with no raises on the first two betting rounds), and Liar's Dice.

Compared to all its predecessors, ReBel is obviously much faster - it spends at least 2 seconds less than Libratus. In general, no more than 5 seconds to decide and make a move.

So far the only poker player that battled against ReBel is Dong Kim - he was also one of the players who lost to Libratus. After 7,500 hands, the poker bot outperformed the human player for 0.165BB per hand, while Libratus scored 0.147BB. ''' ... 

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partypoker ambassador Isaac Haxton talks about the Return of Live Poker

... ''' Masks are likely the first thing on many people's minds. At a minimum, I think taboos and rules against face coverings are gonna have to go. If a player is more comfortable wearing a mask, it does not seem reasonable for tournament officials to prohibit it or for their peers to give them a hard time. Should wearing masks at the table become standard, expected, or even mandatory? I could go either way on this. I'm currently inclined to think that's not necessary. If a player is feeling sick and/or coughing and wants to wear a mask to protect others, this should absolutely be encouraged.

In fact, the way we think about playing while infectious probably needs to be reconsidered. When you've traveled across the world at significant expense to participate in a tournament, it's a hard decision to make to skip it because you're feeling ill. In my nearly 15 years playing live tournaments, I don't think I've ever done it. I'd do my best to cough down my shirt and disinfect my hands regularly, but I wouldn't even consider taking a day off. I think most of my peers are similar. It's a somewhat common sight to see players at the table coughing persistently or blowing their nose every few minutes. I think our expectations here should, and can, change. ''' ... 

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'''' The poker community is remarkably good at self-policing. If we can all agree that it is poor behavior to register a tournament or show up to a cash game when you know you have a cold or flu, I think we can all hold each other accountable to stop doing this and make a big difference in how much illness is spread at poker events. We could also start scanning people for fevers before letting them play. I'm torn on that measure, but I think the upside is probably worth it.

It seems likely to me that we can make some improvements with the hygiene of the chips, cards, and tables. I don't really have the technical knowledge to know what makes sense here, so I'd love to get some feedback from any readers who do. I know there are antimicrobial coatings that are used on high touch surfaces in public areas like hand railings and elevator buttons. I don't know how feasible, effective, or expensive it would be to apply this sort of technology to chips and cards, but it seems worth looking into. Incorporating some kind of sanitizing step in an automatic shuffler box might also have potential. Sanitizing table surfaces with a simple wipe down periodically certainly makes sense. ''' ... 

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Dan Bilzerian points Daniel Cates as Cheater in Bill Perkins' Private High-Stakes Poker Game - Poker/Casino/Betting News from BankrollMob.com

''' The infamous Instagram star Dan Bilzerian accused Daniel "Jungleman" Cates of ‘ghosting' along with Sina Taleb in a high-stakes poker game hosted by Bill Perkins.

It all started this sunny morning of Sunday, May 24, when Bill Perkins shook Twitter with a highly interesting story, that a major cheating scandal has occurred, one he believes would make the Mike Postle scandal look trivial in comparison, as this scandal involved famous ‘heroes' of the poker world. However, he did not say exactly who it was. ''' 

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''' Dan Bilzerian Drops a Name

Dan Bilzerian posted in his Instagram and Twitter accounts that he had been one of the players in the alleged private, high-stakes game on a mobile poker app. Last night, Bilzerian finally added a name to the cheating scandal, accusing Jungleman as the cheater who played against him and Perkins under a different player's name on the Fun Ocean poker app. ''' 

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Dan Bilzerian points Daniel Cates as Cheater in Bill Perkins' Private High-Stakes Poker Game - Poker/Casino/Betting News from BankrollMob.com