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*POKER STARS*
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(“poker” is a family of gambling card games, but is often considered a ‘skill-based’ game)
(all poker variants involve ‘betting’ as an intrinsic part of play, and determine the winner of each hand according to the combinations of players’ cards, at least some of which remain hidden until the end of the hand)
(‘poker games’ vary in the number of cards dealt, the number of shared or “community” cards, the number of cards that remain hidden, and the ‘betting procedures’)
(in most modern poker games, the first round of betting begins with one or more of the players making some form of a forced bet (the blind and/or ante))
(in standard poker, each player bets according to the rank they believe their ‘hand’ is worth as compared to the other players)
(the action then proceeds clockwise as each player in turn must either match, or “call”, the maximum previous bet or ‘fold’, losing the amount bet so far and all further interest in the hand)
(a player who matches a bet may also “raise”, or increase the bet)
(the betting round ends when all players have either called the last bet or folded)
(if all but one player folds on any round, the remaining player collects the pot without being required to reveal their hand)
(if more than one player remains in contention after the final betting round, a ‘showdown’ takes place where the hands are revealed, and the player with the winning hand takes the pot)
(with the exception of initial forced bets, money is only placed into the pot voluntarily by a player who either believes the bet has positive ‘expected value’ or who is trying to ‘bluff’ other players for various strategic reasons)
(thus, while the outcome of any particular hand significantly involves chance, the long-run expectations of the players are determined by their actions chosen on the basis of [‘probability’ / ‘psychology’ / ‘game theory’])
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(‘poker’ has gained in popularity since the beginning of the 1900s and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of enthusiasts to a widely popular activity, both for participants and spectators, including online, with many professional players + ‘multi-million-dollar tournament prizes’)
TEXAS HOLD’EM
“ONLINE POKER MANIA!”
i started playing online poker in fall 2004. i was writing my undergraduate thesis on texas hold’em poker. my brother had turned me onto the game that summer. i swiped his phil helmuth book. phil recommended the site “ultimatebet”. i stuck to limit texas hold’em.
i used “epassporte” to transfer money into my poker account…
cereus poker network owns ultimatebet
a corrupt corporation
(cereus is owned by “blanca games”)
now ultimatebet is insolvent and not processing player withdrawals
i wuz robbed!
so i switched to “poker stars”
cashier@pokerstars.com
support@pokerstars.com
now i don’t have any money to invest in online poker…
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*WIKI-LINK*
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