PIC: #DurhamBasementTour reg poker game (from Durham, Conn) & me. $21 buy in, I finished 4th. #PhilsTrustedFans http://pic.twitter.com/SObssrakrs— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) November 4, 2015
Coders analyzed more than 23,000 frames of video from real-life cases in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. They compared the facial actions of 26 genuine pleaders to those of 26 liars.
By looking closely, researchers found some facial muscles "leak" signs of our true feelings during these intensely emotional and pressurized pleas to the public.
Genuine pleaders showed more contraction of two facial muscles related to grief and sadness: corrugator supercilii, one of the three muscles of the eyelid that helps wrinkle the forehead, and depressor anguli oris, a mouth muscle that is associated with frowning. In liars, they detected subtle contractions of the zygomatic major, a facial muscle linked with masking a smile, and full contraction of the frontalis muscle suggestive of a failed attempt to seem sad.ᔥ The Awl
At a party this evening in Munich, an industry insider close to Facebook made the following prediction: "When online gambling is legalized, Facebook will be a $100 billion company."
That's $100 billion of revenue, not $100 billion in market value (Facebook's already close to the latter.) For context, Google is a $40 billion company. And Facebook did about $4 billion of revenue last year.
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The finalized deal will now be sent to lawmakers scheduled to meet in Raleigh through Tuesday. They don't have to approve the contract, but they're being asked to loosen gambling laws separate from the compact so the tribe could offer games like live poker and blackjack.In the unlikely event I'm ever out that way, this would now be on my list of things to do when in western NC. Without table games -- not a chance.
That is the essence of a civil complaint that federal prosecutors filed on Tuesday. It asserts that players around the world entrusted Full Tilt with $390 million in gambling money, and that the company promised to keep those funds in secure accounts. In reality, prosecutors found, the money wasn’t there; instead, much of it had been transferred to the owners and management of Full Tilt, some of whom were themselves among the most prominent and popular poker players in the world.
“Full Tilt was not a legitimate poker company but a global Ponzi scheme,” said Preet S. Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, whose office filed the complaint on Tuesday.
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New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez played in an underground, illegal poker game where cocaine was openly used, and even organized his own high-stakes game, which ended with thugs threatening players.
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“I don’t remember if I ever got paid for scoring a 100 in mathematics in school. But at a poker table, I apply my maths to calculate pot odds and probabilities of cards yet to show up, and I win. Besides the numbers involved, I also make sure I play the players at the table, not just the rank of my cards,” says the strapping young man with a baby-face, who calmly confesses to bluffing every tenth hand he plays, on average.
Poker, played with the standard pack of 52 cards, is fast becoming a cult phenomenon in India, and Jain is one among many who’ve avidly taken to the game. Unlike other casino games, it does not involve any wheels spun, dice thrown, buttons pushed or breaths withheld for nothing but an extraordinary stroke of luck. Poker is different. Sure, it’s about the hand you’re dealt, but once that’s done, it’s also a game of skill and strategy.
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Phil Ivey says he's sitting out the World Series of Poker and has sued Tiltware, the software and marketing provider for Full Tilt Poker, over its failure to reimburse online player accounts in the wake of the federal online poker sting.
'I am deeply disappointed and embarrassed that Full Tilt players have not been paid money they are owed. I am equally embarrassed that as a result many players cannot compete in tournaments and have suffered economic harm,' Ivey, who has played online on Full Tilt and appeared in the company's TV commercials, said in a statement posted on his website.
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Using data from the 2010 World Series of Poker, Levitt and Miles found that high-skilled players earned an average return on investment of over 30 percent, whereas all other players averaged a 15 percent loss. This finding has serious implications on the legality of online poker, as that debate is heavily dependent on whether the game is based on skill or luck.
End Of An Era? of the Day: The domains of online poker’s three largest sites — PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker — were seized today by the FBI in what the LA Times calls a potential “death blow to the thriving industry.”I cashed out PokerStars ages ago and never looked back. I didn't make much, but I knew I needed to quit while I was ahead. I didn't know, but suspected, the Rise of the Machines ('bots) had started anyways. I feel for anyone with cash in any of the services that can't get at it.
