Some clever fellow on YouTube has taken to doling out his poker advice by commentating over his online play sessions.
We don't think this guy is amazing, but the commentary is actually pretty entertaining, and he at least knows what hes talking about. Even if nes not the best player, his approach to commentating over the game is the first we've seen online, and we hope he starts some kind of trend.
Check them out.
In "Lesson 1", he shows how to use agressive betting to target a player, and set him off, though we're not sure if it was him who got set off.
Note the sidebar on YouTube to see the other "Lessons".
Newly acquired by the Austrian public company Bet and Win, the Ongame Network including poker sites such as Pokerroom.com has wasted no time in launching The Ongame Network Poker Classic, a tournament with a record-breaking guaranteed prize pool of $5 million and at least $1 million for the final winner.
Whilst the prize pool is dwarfed by events such as the WSOP (this year's prize pool will be $70 million) Ongame claims that it will be the largest-ever guaranteed prize for an event that starts online. The Ongame Classic is an exclusive event where the online poker players can only enter through qualifying rounds held on Ongame Network operators' websites, such as Pokerroom.com.
The new tournament will start as an online event and then pause when there are 45 players left. Those 45 will then receive airplane tickets to Barcelona, Spain, for the live final to battle it out on the green felt face to face - continuing with the same chip stacks they had when the online tournament paused.
I'm not sure what they would look like but I bet it's all 1's and 0's.
Poker Playing Robots?:
They don't wear eyeshades or smoke cigars, and their capacity to bluff is somewhat limited. But a new breed of robotic poker player is sending a shiver of fear through the world of the green baize table. It is a poker game being contested in cyberspace, with the ultimate prize being a share of the mega millions being gambled on online poker sites. After all, when you are sitting around a poker table, you've a pretty good chance of telling if your opponent is a robot; competing online is another matter entirely.
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Fastest Growing Online Poker Destination sees its first lucky Shoot out winner square off against resident pro Mark Seif to win a WSOP seat! Costa Rica, (PRWEB) April 20, 2005 -- Online poker players interested in trying their hand at beating a pro and winning a $10,000 seat at the Richest Sporting Event in the World – the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) (www.worldseriesofpoker.com) – take notice; this Friday Mark puts the first seat on the line!
Every Saturday at 2 p.m. EDT leading up to the WSOP main event in Las Vegas which starts July 7, AbsolutePoker.com’s resident pro Mark Seif takes on the AbsolutePoker.com weekly Tournament Leader Board winner. The FreeRoll prize pool starts at $1,000, and Absolute Poker adds $1,000, a custom Absolute Poker jacket, and an opportunity to win a WSOP Seat every week. Any player that beats Mark in the “Mark Seif Heads-Up Shoot Out” will win that week’s prize pool and will automatically qualify to play him again the following Friday at 9 pm Eastern for a chance to win a $10,000 World Series of Poker Seat.
This past weekend Mark Seif was engaged in a hard fought match, but lady luck went astray on Mark and the first AbsolutePoker.com WSOP Shoot Out contestant was the last man standing. As a result, this Friday, April 22nd, Violentfish - as his screen name appears - will focus on repeating this hard fought victory and attempt to land himself a lucrative seat in this year’s WSOP. “It’s every poker player’s dream to compete there (2005 WSOP)” said the ex-sales executive who quit his day job just over a year ago to play poker full time. Shortly after he realized that he had to face Mark again this upcoming Friday he commented “Mark is strong; I hope I have what it takes to repeat.” Violentfish also came in 3rd last week in the 25K point challenge and won over $1000.
AbsolutePoker.com, which provides games 24/7 for thousands of concurrent players around the world, is also active qualifying players for the WSOP main event in Las Vegas through daily online poker satellite tournaments in which players enter for as little as $5. Players that win their WSOP seat not only receive buy-in to the WSOP main event, but money towards airfare and accommodations. To participate, players simply need to download the free poker software at www.absolutepoker.com.
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I'm not sure what they would look like but I bet it's all 1's and 0's.
