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In-depth Texas Holdem Strategies

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Learning Texas Holdem Poker is a fairly easy task – game rules and basic strategy are very clear and comprehensive, but you shall need to make your way through months of study and practice if you are planning to win in top Texas Holdem Poker rooms and world tournaments. Although the basics are very easy and that’s what attracts the majority of online players, they’re just the crowd of comparatively equal players. They don’t lose too much, but they never win a lot, so if you really want to do your best and start earning serious money, then your goal is to learn as much as you can and dedicate enough time to practice your knowledge and master your skills. Remember that Texas Holdem is a highly intellectual game that requires thinking, patience and discipline, not luck. The following list of 31 items is a brief introduction to in-depth Texas Holdem strategies, which may appear to be a great help on your way to success. You can find expanded articles on the following items and much more useful information and tips at RoomReview.net. (more…)

Carnegie Mellon Poker Software Inducts Brand New Approach to Texas Holdem Strategy

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

The program relies on the analysis of Texas Holdem Rules and Game Theory, not Player Experience.

Productive collaboration of a Computer Science Professor Tuomas Sandholm and his colleague, graduate student Andrew Gilpin has resulted in creation of a game-theory-based computer program that will soon take party in competition held by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. This competition known as “Computer Poker Competition” will start on Wednesdy, 16 th of July 2008 in Boston.

Tuomas Sandholm, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist has cogently demonstrated that one shouldn’t necessary need to know a lot about Texas Holdem (basics and theory) in order to create a computer program (they actually call their project “Poker Robot”), which will be able to play a winning Texas Holdem hand. Poker theory in general and Texas Holdem theory in particular are at the heart of their “Poker Robot” called GS1. Tuomas Sandholm, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces Lab and his colleague, graduate student Andrew Gilpin say that no specialized expertise of any of the human Texas Holdem players were applied during creation of GS1. (more…)

Starting Hands

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Seven Card Stud is a poker game of uncertainty. What cards you play and how you play them is entirely dependant on what the other players has showing. There is no set basic poker strategy that can be used in all poker situations as there is in online blackjack game. It is impossible to write a complete poker strategy in a few short pages. (more…)