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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Poker Stars needs “Bet Pot” button !
Recently, after spending a year playing on Full Tilt and UltimateBet, I revived my PokerStars account and was shocked to discover that all the problems, which forced me to stop playing there are still intact. My major problems were, generally speaking, speed of dealing hands and absence of “Bet Pot” option. When your multitabling it becomes important.
I wonder if they realize what kind of money they are losing due to the absence of “Bet Pot” button”? Not only do people need to think about an amount they want to bet, they have to type it in or slide the control. No doubt, after the flop people need to do it anyway, but before the flop as raising option, it is convenient and save a lot of time by taking care of limpers. Sure enough, if you an adept of “small ball” strategy you are out of luck and need to type your smaller bet anyway. Which brings an interesting question. Would it be profitable to introduce some sort of customized betting buttons which allow you to predetermine you raise size? For example “Bet 2.5 big blinds”.
Here are some speculative but somewhat realistic calculations about significance of the software speed and presence of ” Bet pot ” button. PokerStars is the largest site around, they routinely have more than 10,000 table running. Lets say that you lose 1 second per hand due to a delay when a raiser types in an amount instead using the button. It is a conservative assessment which compensate for some hands without a raise. So you lose 50 seconds an hour per table (average of 50 hands) which makes it 20 minutes a day for each table. All this translates into staggering 3300 hours of lost time a day for the site. If you deal 50 hands an hour you lose 165,000 hands you could have dealt. If your rake is even 50 cents a hand on average you are losing something like 80,000 dollars a day for one second delay. And it is cool 30 millions a year! Large numbers are funny.. we all should try to sell something to China.
