I think on ultimatebet, you have to be 21 years old to play. Are there any above 18 places? I'm looking to play in one.
I am at the World Series of Poker right now in Vegas, and busted out of the Friday $2000 buyin event. I won a bunch of tournament chips and satellited in for only a few hundred, and one of my friends offered to back me for half my action as well. Of course I busted out 280th or so, but if I had somehow made the final table, there was a ton of money to be made. One of my friends got 4th in the $1000 + rebuy WSOP tournament, which paid $139,000. He will be on television once they start airing the events on ESPN. It is a pretty good time out here, anyone who is in Vegas from now until early July should definitely check out the Rio convention center.
I play for real money on Poker Room... almost everyday. I rarely ever play cash games, I always play tournaments, or the sit and go tourney's, and sometimes the sit and go shorthanded tourney. If you decide to play with real money, I just suggest, don't get addicted and don't get in too deep, take every hand as serious as possible. And don't start off with too much money, most likely you will lose your first 50-100 dollars or so. But that's ok, you will see how different is it when playing with real money, rather than "play money." The cards you see will be alittle different... not saying the site is rigged or anything, but yeah. Kind of hard to explain.
Nope. They won't take any US Visa or Mastercards. I might have to set up an ING acccount just for Poker and link it to PokerRoom.
This would be so awesome to be able to do on a hand held device...oh wait.... uh....never mind....for the moment. DD
Darn, I tried to put up my credit card for poker room, and they couldn't communicate with the bank or something. So after a day, still no money in the account and I don't really wanna try to sign in again...eh...it's just ten bucks.
I tried the exact same thing. You can't really use credit cards. You have to get Neteller and verify your bank account. I'm in the process of doing so and once I verify it, then I can deposit money instantly. It takes about 2 days. Don't worry about giving them your bank account information because it is the safest place. I closed my account before and it took 3 people and 15 questions to get it activated again haha.
Allright...I just didn't feel like doing all that Neteller stuff, but I guess I'll have no choice. I was just clicking on the credit card option and that didn't work.
Poker-faced robots raising the stakes By Joseph Menn Los Angeles Times June 13, 2005 http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050613/NEWS06/506130407/1012 Of the millions of gamblers who have rushed to play Texas Hold 'Em and other fast-growing poker games online, Roger Gabriel isn't the most intimidating. The 30-year-old engineer from Newport Beach, Calif., started playing for money only a month ago. He lurks online at the chicken-hearted tables where the biggest ante is 4 cents. Even there, he can't win consistently. But Gabriel has a potentially powerful alter ego. In his spare time, he's perfecting a computer program to go online and play the game for him. His "BlackShark" software is still a work in progress. But Gabriel has no doubt that such programs eventually will be championship quality. "In the future," he said, "robots are going to take over." Gabriel is one of an increasing number of computer professionals who design poker robots, or "bots," that pose as human gamblers but can play endlessly without tiring or losing concentration -- for real money. Although not yet good enough to beat skilled humans consistently, these programs are seen as a threat by online casinos and the gamblers who spend billions chasing big pots. "There are already lots of robots playing online, and that's definitely unethical. They should identify themselves," said Paul Magriel, a veteran professional poker player. The machines will be celebrated in Las Vegas next month with the world's first money tournament for robots -- and the $100,000 prize is drawing a handful of coders out of anonymity. The emerging technology does more than raise the stakes for online casinos. It also raises fundamental questions about how far computers have come in mimicking and improving on human behavior. Computer programs have conquered checkers, chess and, most recently, backgammon. By rapidly evaluating plays more moves ahead than a person can, computers routinely beat the strongest human players in those games. But poker is a far more human game, one in which psychology matters as much as probability. This makes poker bot design fascinating to academics like Jonathan Schaeffer, a computing science professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton who for 14 years has headed a project to build poker programs. Schaeffer said cards are more likely than chess to produce computing approaches useful in the real world, because poker players must deal with incomplete information. But before such research can contribute dramatically to solving global dilemmas, Schaeffer said, it has to solve the challenge of poker -- and that's several years away. Robot designers Ken Mages of Evanston, Ill., is further along than Gabriel. But while their electronic progeny might win at small-stakes tables, they usually fall apart when the human competition is stiffer. For two weeks in May, Mages sold his software for $60 a copy. After getting deluged with customer pleas for technical help -- and a threat by one player who gambled away $10,000 to send him the bill -- Mages sold out to a business associate, Hong Kong engineer Ben Lo. Mages then struck a deal with Los Angeles public relations executive Darren Shuster to set up the Las Vegas contest -- dubbed the World Series of Poker Robots -- and persuaded Antigua-based GoldenPalace.com to put up the prize money. Organizers plan to invite the winner of the human World Series to go up against the winner of their robot contest, although no one expects the computer code to triumph -- at least, not this year. Entrants so far include Gabriel, Lo, programmers from Florida, Canada and Spain, and Hilton Givens of Lafayette, Ind., who started working on a robot more seriously after he was laid off from his software job.
