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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
The McCreedy Poker Swindle
I’m sure this has been done numerous times, but this ploy was new to me.
This morning I was watching this old show from the 1970′s called Alias Smith and Jones (I think). I’m not sure how it got onto my TV, but I had just woken up and didn’t really feel like changing the channel…so I didn’t have many options.
First, the 2 main characters got swindled by this guy named McCreedy in a game of 5 Card Stud. They got all of their money in holding a straight against McCreedy’s pair of jacks. However, in this game of stud they were playing with the Hoyle rules, which state that a player can only play a straight or flush if this was declared before the game. Alias and Jones thought that McCreedy was shooting a bit of an angle by envoking this rule, so they decided to come up with their own little scheme.
They got themselves a loan for $20K and headed back to the poker game where they laid out the following proposition; McCreedy could shuffle the deck himself and remove 25 cards. Alias would have to make 5 pat hands out of those 25 cards on the first try in order to win a $40K pot.
This seems like a pretty difficult thing to do, but apparently it’s almost a statistical sure thing. I suppose I don’t really need to come out and say that Alias was able to make the 5 hands.
I guess this really isn’t all that interesting. I think that I just get excited anytime that I see a poker movie or show on TV that I haven’t seen before. If there are any old timers reading this, maybe this will bring back some memories. Most of this stuff wouldn’t fly in today’s poker games…and this certainly wouldn’t fly on today’s television networks. I have a feeling that the Retro Network is one of the only TV stations that will air this sort of stuff.
There was another cliche scam towards the end of this show. In the last game McCreedy offers a bet that he can cut the ace of spades out of the deck on the first try. As they say in the poker world, if someone approaches you with a seemingly unlosable bet, you are probably going to lose.
Alias shuffles the deck and places it on the table. McCreedy then takes out a knife and stabs it through the deck of cards and says “There you are sir, I cut the ace of spades on the first try”. The room erupts in laughter as it looks like the out-of-towners have been swindled again, only to hear Alias say “No you didn’t” as he reveals that he had already palmed the ace of spades in anticipation.
For the record, I think it’s pretty easy to set up 5 pat hands out of 25 cards. I tried this a few times and was able to do it in about 1-2 minutes. It just takes a little bit of creative rearranging. However, on the third try I dealt myself a spread of cards that I’m certain could not be arranged into 5 pat hands. I’m a little embarrassed to say how long it took me before I could be sure that I wasn’t missing something. It must have been somewhere just shy of an hour. Around here, we would refer to this length of time as; “Three beers time”.
