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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
What Pleases Poker Farce
Phil Ivey is one of my favorite poker players. I could go on all day about why I like the guy, but the bottom line is that I am glad he didn’t win the world series of poker this year. It was pretty amazing that he got as far as he did, the odds of a well known player getting that far a just not good.
Sure; it would have been good for Full Tilt, maybe good for poker in general, but it would have sucked for me; this is for sure. Already Phil Ivey is considered to be one of the best poker players alive… if he took this event down we never would have heard the end of it.
The declaration of any poker player as “The best” is just a silly statement. If you give me any tournament poker player, I could likely trace the majority of their profits back to 10 or 20 key hands that they have won throughout the years. By the same accord… most good players who are not successful can trace their demise back to 10 or 20 suckouts that happened in crucial spots during tournaments.
This is not an argument of skill, it is an argument of statistics. The # of tournaments that would need to be played to have a statistically significant figure is higher than anyone can ever be expected to play in my opinion. This is not true in online poker, but in live poker – the expected # of tournaments needed for the cards to actually break even (bad timing included) is not likely to be achieved by any 1 person in their lifetime.
Let’s face it… if it wasn’t for 1 nasty suckout (and I mean real nasty) Greg Raymer could possibly be considered to be the best poker player in history. His WSOP accomplishments are still unprecedented in my opinion… and they are dwarfed incomparison to the possibilities in retrospect.
I’m guessing that 50% of the people reading this blog entry will not understand my feelings correctly. I don’t hate Phil Ivey and I don’t think that poker is all luck. I simply think that the following fact needs to be acknowledged; The greatest poker player ever is likely a guy who plays at his homegame on the weekends and hoes to work on Monday. He doesn’t have the passion for poker and he makes more money doing other things than he ever could in poker (yes, you can make more than 10-20 million elsewhere in the world, the WSOP is not the pinnacle in life). The best poker players ever likely is just not in a position where he is able or he wants to succeed in poker.
