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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
Math vs. Instinct
I had a conversation recently with a poker playing buddy of mine. He’s not what you would call a math guy. He goes by instinct and “gut feeling” and never even thinks about the math aspect of poker.
I’ve tried to explain the virtues of knowing the math when playing poker and he just doesn’t get it. More precisely he thinks the math part is over rated.
He’s a successful player and he’s gotten very far relying on gut instinct to get by. He relies on the feel of the game and his gut feeling on what he thinks the other players have. He understands that math plays an important role in the game but he thinks that reading your opponents is more important than determining if the odds are right to make calls etc.
In a way I agree with him. I think that human instinct is a powerful weapon and tool in a poker game. Me being a more logical type of player tends to overlook the instinctual aspect of the game at times. My friend on the other hand often disregards the proper odds and calls with draws that mathematically doesn’t make sense. He just feels it.
I attempt to explain to him about the one long poker game theory and that if he continues to make bad calls when it’s not mathematically correct, he’ll eventually lose more than he wins. I break it down to him by the numbers but he still refuses to budge and he’ll always rely on his instinct to guide him.
I tell him that the math aspect of the game is concrete, it’s something that you can chew on and rely on in the long run. Instinct is supernatural, it’s something that can’t be qauntified and thus hard to defend or advocate.
He tells me that it’s gotten him this far and he’ll continue to rely on his instinct moving forward.
In the end, I just decide to drop it and tell him that whatever he’s doing it’s working and that If I were him, I wouldn’t change a thing.
Even if the odds are against him.
