Event #17 on Full Tilt’s FTOPS X calendar was a NL Hold ‘em 4 x shootout 6-max affair

with a $200 + $16 buy-in and a $250,000 guarantee.  1,094 entrants shelled out their entry fee, which wasn’t enough to break the guaranteed prize pool but formed a deep field nevertheless, with the bonus of a decent overlay.

With a gross of 144 places getting paid, only one Full Tilt pro made the money, despite a good representation of the pros.  Early casualties included Peter “Nordberg” Feldman (1089th), Roy “The Oracle” togel online  (1077th), Hendon Mob member Ram Vaswani (1027th), followed by Andy “The Monk” Black (1009th) and Nikolay Edakov (1001st).  And the pros kept on falling.  Next up – or rather, out – was Michael aka Maciek Gracz (846th), then Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie (735th), Thomas Bihl (701st), Brandon Adams (592nd), Steve Brecher (580th), Dag Martin “dmmikkel” Mikkelsen (509th), Hans Vogel (492nd), Sigi Stockinger (431st), Aaron Bartley (427th), Scott Fischman (390th), Marco Leisy (363rd), Hendon Mob member Barny Boatman (301st), Erich Froelich (258th), John DAgositino (251st), and Ali Sarkeshik (166th).

Players of note that made the cash were Eric “sheets” Haber (94th) for $550, Mark “The Omaholic” Roland (50th) for $750, Austrian native and Full Tilt pro Stefan Rapp (40th) for $750 and Canadian player Rami “Arbianight” Boukai (36th) for $1,125.

The final table for this 6-max shootout lined up with DLizzle, Shoomie, TerenzHill, SNACKERS, justakid69 and BigDaddyKing, each starting with 547,000 in chips.  TerenzHill was the first eliminated at the 3,000/6,000/750 level when his turned set of sevens ran into Shoomie’s rivered straight.  Terenz walked away with $6,000.  Shoomie then knocked out DLizzle, calling DLizzle’s Ac6d button shove from the small blind with AhQs.  The flop came all clubs with a Q giving Shoomie top pair and DLizzle the …

History of Blackjack Advantage Systems Development, Part I – The Methods, The Men, The Myths and The Message, by Jerry Patterson

The Beginning

Although there are legends about old time blackjack players getting an edge by “casing” the single deck, the modern history of blackjack advantage system development starts in 1958 with the publication of the basic strategy for playing the hands by Cantey, McDermott, Maisel and Baldwin. Initially published in the American Journal of the American Statistical Association, it caused much excitement among both gamblers and statisticians. I remember someone showing me a dog-eared copy of the article, which I immediately copied and committed to memory.

Then the four originators published their basic strategy, all their work done on hand calculators, in a book called, I believe, Winning Blackjack, which has now become an extremely hard-to-find collectors item. I wish I had saved my copy. The original basic strategy published in this book is very close to that which is in use today.

I was working in the Aerospace industry in 1958 when Winning Blackjack was published. The book became the reason for frequent trips to Las Vegas. Myself and two or three friends would meet at a rendezvous point in the San Fernando Valley, get on the Hollywood Freeway, connect to the San Bernardino Freeway, stop in Barstow for coffee, making the 296-mile drive in about six hours. Our first stop was the Dunes where we would look for Ralph, our favorite dealer, and play single-deck blackjack dealt to the bottom well into the night (remember this was before Thorp’s book). Our $100 bankroll was converted $20 at a time into real silver dollars, which were the dollar chips of choice in those days, and we would grind away with our $1-unit bets well into the night.

Playing …

BASICS OF OMAHA POKER

Omaha Poker and Texas Hold ’em are same kind of poker. The only exception is that in Omaha poker the player deals with four cards and can choose which will play where in Texas Hold ’em the number of card is two. Because of this special choice the concept of best hands in it is not totally unexpected. Though the strategy is slightly different then the Texas Hold ’em but it is certainly more fun. Usually a deck of 5 cards are used in kind of game of poker. Around 10 people can play this game at a time at one table. It is a little bit different in case of the number of faced-down cards which the every player got and given by the dealer.

Types:

One type of Omaha poker game is the ‘Omaha Hi/Lo’. It is immensely famous in the United States. It is the most popular variation of Omaha poker which is often seen in the United State casinos. It is giving a hard competition to the other poker game in the present market. It is also a well-known game in the European casinos too. The name Hi/Lo is a shortcut represented for the  Hi/Lo split or eight or better.

How to play and rules:

Some cards in common will always make hand special. Try to look for either pair cards and sequential cards (example, Jack-Queen and 8-9) or a hand which got two different suits.  Though hands with same suit of four cards aren’t that good, the two cards less would make a flush.  In simple words one can’t use two of cards from one hand.

Generally try to fold the hands which have four different suits and all those are containing low cards. A poor hand included an ‘8 of …

Who buys lottery tickets in Ontario? As players get in on this Friday’s LOTTO SUPER 7 $25 million Bonus Jackpot (April 4, 2003), research from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC) on the demographics of lottery players shows that lotteries are highly popular with adults from every walk of life.

Lotteries have very broad appeal with the adults of Ontario. Market research shows lottery players closely reflect the demographics of the province as a whole. In terms of education and income, lottery players really are the same as the general population.

OLGC surveys approximately 3,600 people each year on their lottery purchasing. 68% of Ontario adults are regular lottery players (they’ve played recently and plan to play again) and 28% of adults play at least once a week.

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PROBLEM GAMBLING RISING AS OUTLETS AND ACCESS GROW

Western New York has all …