Iphone poker review site
Who’d have ever thought that calling Apple’s products “toys” would upset people? Look it’s not my fault Rush Poker decided to ignore Apple!
On the other hand, some other sites decided to take matters very seriously, providing real money poker apps compatible with IPhone
poker-on-mobile.com
Android Poker
Until recently there was nowhere to play real money poker on a quality, Android based poker application. That is a thing of the past though, as more and more sites pop up that promise to do just that! Read more on poker-on-mobile.com
The Flyers Have Edged the Hurricanes in NHL Hockey
The Flyers managed to edge the Hurricanes in a 2-1 win. The key goals and the defensive stops make the difference when it comes to these NHL Hockey games. The Philadelphia Flyers managed to find a way to win when they were not at the very top of their game. This is the mark of a championship team. They are the wonderful team that delivers in situations where fans start to believe that all is lost. The victory is not so much a surprise as a vindication of the tactics that were used before. The main protagonists in this even were Jeff Care and Danny Briere.
Winning NHL Hockey games against the odds
It is not possible that the players will be at their best all the time. There will be occasions where they end up making mistakes. Likewise the setting on the play might change according to the weather conditions. The most important thing is to have the means through which it is possible to win the game in difficult circumstances. Some people erroneously refer to this as “winning ugly games”. In fact the struggle to overcome adversity might be the key ingredient that keeps the audiences interested. The Flyers illustrated this point in the game that they played. For the losing team, you end up commiserating on the missed chances. If the players get nervous while trying to close a game then the opposing team must take advantage of this situation.
The team that is getting the shakes has to consider all the possibilities for playing NHL Hockey. On one hand you can become defensive and decide that you are simply not going to make any mistakes. The game will be clean but not inspiring. On the other hand you might decide that this is the time to go for the game. You put through everything that you think is possible and then drive the game through. It is imperative that you move according to the circumstances. Pressure tends to make experience players fall. They are simply not prepared to fail and they worry too much about the consequences. There is no game that cannot be won or lost. You just have to have the right attitude and skills. In the Flyers, the attitude was spot on and they carried the day. It would take something special to get this sort of thing going. They brought something special.
Weighing the Odds in Hold’em Poker
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Price: $24.95
Books and Maths (yawn)
Finished the Sam Chauhan Minds Power Unleashed book, it was cool, alot of NLP in there. Was worth the read, something useful for poker would be about where peoples eyes are looking..
Started on the Owen Gaines Poker Math That matters book, fairly simple so far but its starts from the basics and moves onto the tough stuff later on. 71 pages into 220 so far.. heres some charts from the book
Price to call his bet vs equity we need:
Implied odds:
So far so good.. also, anyones opinions on games on iPoker in general?
A Day in the Life (Part 2)
Last week I talked a bit about the process DC uses to manage workflow. This week I’m going to go into a bit more detail about how we determine our priorities for what needs to be fed into our workflow.
Performance ManagementI’ve said this before – I’ll say it again. Our #1 feature is speed (Fred Wilson Agrees). We keep a close eye on our system performance in a few different ways. From a general (and very subjective) standpoint, we eat our own dogfood – that is to say, we use the site daily. That helps us keep fairly alerted to threads that are alerting us to performance problems and bugs, and also lets us see which areas of the site are holding up well and which might require more resources or possibly refactoring.
On the objective end of things, we monitor our site’s performance with Scout and with NewRelic. I’ve mentioned both of these before but I’ll go into them a bit more in detail now.
ScoutScout gives us access to a ton of server monitoring and server performance data. Our primary use for it is in application monitoring – to make sure that the site is up and running and that the servers we rely on (MySQL, Rails, or Redis) are all up and running smoothly. It also contains some basic data that we can use to analyze slow elements of the site, like slow database queries or pages that are performing poorly.
In general, Scout is step #1 whenever we’re about to dig into application performance. Once we see something that stands out – for example, a higher-than-acceptable standard deviation of page response on our Forums (TopicsController#Show)…
…we move to other tools to work on understanding the root cause of the performance issue and to see what we can do to improve it. This is where New Relic shines.
New Relic
New Relic is indispensable for digging deep into your application. It provides a general application overview so that you can see how individual elements of our application are performing (in this case, MySQL, Ruby, and Memcache). Some of the real utility of New Relic comes in its ability to individually investigate page actions and report back on the individual traces within pages.
Rather than just knowing what pages are slow, you can look into the individual components of a page and dig from there. For example – based on our earlier example of a high stdev in page response time (which would indicate a page that is alternating between very fast and very slow), we can take a look at one slow trace (New Relic automatically logs each situation where a page takes longer than 2s to load) here:
What does this tell me when I look at it? Well, it looks like Redis (which we use as a data-caching store, keeping track of all of the latest posts people have read, etc) is occasionally taking a LONG time to respond to this specific HGET query. That’s odd behavior given the way that Redis works, and is something that I’ll make a note (in Pivotal this time around) to investigate further. The page is fast almost all the time, but occasionally is very very slow, and is definitely something that warrants further investigation.
Performance Management Goals
In general, we aim to have DC pages served up in anywhere between 1/5 and 1/2 of a second, depending on the complexity of the page. Our average response time has historically been about a third of a second – which would be slow for a company like Google, but is pretty good given two things:
The amount of customized data we send. Customized data is the bane of an application – it’s very easy to just spit out 25 pages of recent forum topics, but the moment that you commit to tracking things like “last post read” (which is different for each of the users who use the site), your application becomes orders of magnitude more complex. Managing this complexity is a full time job, but is something that we’re committed to, given how much it helps our users contextualize and follow the information that they’re reading.
I was going to end this post here, but currently we’re under a bit of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack which is trying to bring our site down. This is where the guys at RailsMachine deserve a shout out – they help us with server monitoring 24×7, and when things like this come up, they’re immediately on call to help out. They also help with other server configuration issues and monitoring to help DC as it grows. Thanks, guys.
So – that’s it on the performance management and tracking mode. Next week I’ll be back one last time to talk about what we’ve been up to lately and what’s coming up from us.
2011 WSOP Qualifier Watch – Week 2 of PokerListings Guide
The 2011 WSOP is looming and, like every year, there are countless ways to qualify.
From now until the 2011 WSOP Main Event, PokerListing.com will be highlighting some of the best options available through our online poker partners.
We’ll give you an in-depth look at all the various satellites including steps programs, multiple seat guaranteed tournaments and Sit & Gos.
This week we’re going to analyze some of the best WSOP satellites offered by Titan Poker, bwin Poker and PartyPoker.
Titan Poker is making one its biggest WSOP pushes ever with countless ways to get to Las Vegas for all the action this summer. Titan Poker offers $13k WSOP Main Event packages with seven nights accommodation at the five-star Wynn Hotel. To sign up go to our Titan Poker review.
Main Event Satellite Structure A
This structure culminates with a massive $535 WSOP Freezeout satellite that takes place every Sunday at 22:00 (GMT+1). The winner receives a WSOP package worth $13,000 that includes Main Event seat, flight and accommodations.
There are numerous feeders into the satellite final with Freezeouts, Rebuy and Add-on and Sit & Gos available. The various buy-ins include $11, $33, $53, $66, $88 and $106.
Main Event Satellite Structure B
The Titan Poker Main Event satellite B structure finishes with a $215 buy-in Rebuy and Add-on tournament that takes place every Tuesday.
Once again every winner will receive a WSOP package worth $13,000 that includes your seat, flight and hotel accommodations.
There are a variety of ways to qualify for the final satellite with MTTs, Sit & Goes and rebuy events all represented. Buy-in levels include $8.80, $11, $13.20, $22, $23.50, $27.50, $47 and $112.50.
WSOP Jackpot SNG Executive Package
This year Titan Poker is offering an impressive $25,000 WSOP package to players that win six consecutive WSOP Executive Jackpot Sit & Goes. Each Sit & Go costs only $12 to buy into.
The $25k WSOP package includes not only the $10k Main Event buy-in but also a side event (Event 56) and 13 days accommodations at the Wynn in Las Vegas. In addition Titan Poker will provide $7k for flights and spending money.
The executive package is one of the best WSOP packages you can qualify for.
Side Event Qualifying Schedule
Titan Poker is offering numerous satellites to side events this year and even the prestigious $10k Pot-Limit Omaha championship. Qualifiers start at just $2.75 and run daily, weekly and monthly. Check the lobby for more information.
Click here to sign up for Titan Poker to get access to all these WSOP satellites.
World-class online room bwin Poker is upping the number of satellites on tap this year with a little something for everyone. This year bwin Poker is offering $15k WSOP Main Event packages with accommodations at the exclusive Venetian Palazzo. Side event players are also in luck with numerous $3,600 packages to the $1,000 buy-in Event 54.
There are all sorts of good things at the WSOP.Main Event Qualifying
bwin Poker’s Main Event satellite’s start at just $2.20 but it all feeds into the $15k Main Event finals, which run every Sunday. If you’d rather just avoid the qualifying part altogether you can just buy-in for a straight $320.
Side Event Qualifying
Similar to the Main Event satellites, the qualifiers start at just $2.20 and lead all the way up to a $320 final that runs every Tuesday and Thursday. The difference is that there will be more packages to win.
Main Event Freerolls
bwin Poker is one of the few sites that is straight up giving away seats to the 2011 WSOP. New players receive 10 tickets to weekly freerolls that take place every Saturday.
Click here to sign up for bwin to get access to all their WSOP satellites.
Online poker giant PartyPoker is always one of the premiere destinations to qualify for the WSOP and this year is no exception. Whether you prefer multi-table tournaments or Sit & Goes, PartyPoker has you covered. The site also offers $14k Main Event packages that include accommodations and spending cash.
Daily Feeders
PartyPoker offers daily WSOP qualifiers at the $2, $4, $9 and $75 buy-in levels. The tournaments essentially act as progressive steps and if you win one, you qualify for the next level of satellite. Finally in the $75 qualifier, every 1 in 10 players gains entrance to the daily final.
Daily Final
PartyPoker offers a $750 buy-in WSOP satellite every day at 15:20 ET. It’s incredibly simple: 1 in 20 players in the tournament field gets a $14,000 package to the 2011 WSOP Main Event.
Freerolls
PartyPoker is offering several freeroll options but the best is one designed for new players. The top 10 players in each new depositor WSOP freeroll will receive entrance to the next WSOP satellite. The next one takes place May 28.
Click here to sign up for PartyPoker to get access to all their WSOP satellites.
bwin Poker $11 Face Off
On May 6, bwin Poker is running another edition of its ridiculously value-packed $10 Face Off tournament. There are no complicated sub-qualifiers here and if you manage to finish in the top five you will receive either a 2011 WSOP Main Event package or a 2011 WSOP side event package. In other words: You win and you’re going to Las Vegas.
To keep track of all the best WSOP satellites look at our WSOP How to Qualify page.
Way bellow EV…
Played a devastating session today. If it was not enough to run 4.5 BIs bellow EV, I had coolers like KK vs AA pre and a massive pot with a K-high flush loosing to the nut-flush.
Some hands:
Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 1298440
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
MP: $19.93
CO: $16.85
BTN: $25.88
SB: $26.19
Hero (BB): $25.35
UTG: $10.00
Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with A
A
4 folds, SB raises to $0.50, Hero raises to $1.75, SB calls $1.25
Flop: ($3.50) 6
5 8(2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $3, SB raises to $11.50, Hero raises to $23.60 all in, SB calls $12.10
Turn: ($50.70) 9(2 players – 1 is all in)
River: ($50.70) 8(2 players – 1 is all in)
Final Pot: $50.70
SB shows 7 T (a straight, Ten high)
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Eights)
SB wins $48.17
(Rake: $2.53)
Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 1298444
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
UTG: $6.67
MP: $31.87
CO: $28.17
BTN: $23.52
SB: $25.25
Hero (BB): $26.84
Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with A K
3 folds, BTN raises to $0.75, SB calls $0.65, Hero raises to $3, BTN calls $2.25, SB raises to $25.25 all in, Hero raises to $26.84 all in, 1 fold
Flop: ($53.50) 9
J Q(2 players – 2 are all in)
Turn: ($53.50) 4(2 players – 2 are all in)
River: ($53.50) 4(2 players – 2 are all in)
Final Pot: $53.50
SB shows Q A (two pair, Queens and Fours)
Hero shows A K (a pair of Fours)
SB wins $50.83
(Rake: $2.67)
Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 1298445
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
UTG: $26.55
MP: $25.00
CO: $25.45
BTN: $27.13
SB: $54.32
Hero (BB): $25.00
Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with 6 6
UTG raises to $0.85, 2 folds, BTN calls $0.85, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.60
Flop: ($2.65) 6 3 Q(3 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $2.65, BTN folds, Hero raises to $6.50, UTG raises to $25.70 all in, Hero calls $17.65 all in
Turn: ($50.95) A(2 players – 2 are all in)
River: ($50.95) 9(2 players – 2 are all in)
Final Pot: $50.95
UTG shows 8 T (a flush, Ace high)
Hero shows 6 6 (three of a kind, Sixes)
UTG wins $48.41
(Rake: $2.54)
Overall graph up to now (including today’s session):
Bodog
Well no need to comment on black Friday. Since I am an American I have jumped back on the first site that brought me into the online poker world: BODOG. Yes, I know that many of you shutter as you read this, however, I can’t not play. I am still looking into joining another site but for the time being I am going to give it a go and see where we end up on Bodog.
As always its just for the Shenanigans….
