CHAD "lilholdem954" BATISTA - 2007-12-25
Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2007
Las Vegas Christmas Eve Lights • 2007
WPT Season 6 - Hats Off to Hellraiser
2008 European Poker Tour - Caribbean Poker Adventure
Dunhill Poker Set
2007 Ladbrokes Poker Million
'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common
The Year in Poker: June, 2007
He Said, She Said, Vol. 2: $15K Macau High Rollers
Christmas for the troops: Montana poker tournament lifts spirits of those serving in Iraq
Playing Against Maniacs
Poker Champ Offers Hope for Math Challenged
Darts Champ Tries Poker
D'Agostino's Insight into Seven-Card Stud Can Still Be Heard
WHAT IS YOUR POKER IQ? TAKE THE DONKEY TEST
Date: Mon, Dec 24, 2007
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CHAD "lilholdem954" BATISTA - 2007-12-24
Date: Mon, Dec 24, 2007
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 24: The Golddust Twins, Part 1
Poker After Dark To Kick Off New Year With Dream Table
Play The Hendon Mob At Their Own Poker Game With A Bonus
RaceForASeat.com Announces The Cake Poker Rake Race
ABSOLUTE POKER INVESTIGATION COMPLETED
Joe Beevers Wins The Poker Million
Box Them In
Online Poker: Interview With Chris 'Tribefan9' Rhodes
WPT Season 6 - Paying Close Attention
Poker Room Stiffs Players
Holiday Fundraiser on Poker Strip
Pacific Poker Lives the Dream
Something is Klausen in the state of Denmark
The Rule of 4
Watch the master - lilholdem Heads Up Tournament 12-23
Date: Mon, Dec 24, 2007
$215 Heads Up Tournament Part 1 - you have to know when your beat and fold it. Great short stack play - What a comeback!!
$215 Heads Up Tournament Part 2 - you have to know when your beat and fold it. Great short stack play - What a comeback!!
$215 Heads Up Tournament Part 3 - Next opponent - eliminated fast.
DAILY POKER NEWS - Sunday 12-23-2007
Date: Sun, Dec 23, 2007
Titanic Christmas for Poker Players
Holiday Promos Running at Online Poker Room
Doyle Brunson and Mike Caro Download for Christmas
POKER
Dmitri Nobles Is Ready For His Closeup
PORTSMOUTH AREA
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: Obama's gaming give, take
Wexler Bill to Legalize Online Poker Gains 21st Co-Sponsor
Tournament Titan Winner Sorel Mizzi Doesn't Know Pot Odds, but Knows Poker
Marty Smyth Looking For Place at Final Table
Poker Room Review: Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort, Atlantic City, NJ
Xbox 360 Review - 'World Series of Poker 2008
Holiday Promos Running at Online Poker Room
Card Player Profile: Dutch Boyd
Josh "JJProdigy" Field Begs for Forgiveness
Date: Sun, Dec 23, 2007
If you follow online poker at all then you already know who "JJProdigy" is. He was banned in February of '06 for multi-accounting, and it was also revealed at that time that he was just 16 years old.
On Saturday, "JJProdigy" issued an apology on 2+2 and Pocketfives to the online poker community. In the posts, he states that he is apologizing to the poker community and is ashamed for what he did. (link to actual apology at the bottom of this article).
Many people question the timing of the "apology." Josh Field is turning 18 in a couple of weeks, and has already stated that he plans on playing the PCA and the Aussie Millions. Many people just figure that he is issuing an apology now so that he can try and garner a bit of good will before he plays at any live events, where there will undoubtedly be many people that aren't too happy with him.
In some of his follow-up responses after the apology, "JJProdigy" has said some interesting things. First off, he confirmed what everyone already knew; he has been actively playing since being banned from many of the major sites. He has been actively playing on the sites that he had been banned from.
He won't list any of the accounts that he has played under since being banned.
He won't answer questions as to whether or not any of his friends have engaged in cheating.
He posted this on 2+2 in regards to how he multi-accounted:
"To pull it off, it is quite simple. Sites can detect two things: ip addresses and the computer used. As long as you have different ip addresses and different computers, it is an easy stunt to pull off. For the different ip addresses, I simply used Verizon Wiresless cards.
One of the problems I soon began to realize was getting money into accounts. Inter account transfers are the easiest and most logical decision, but that makes links to your accounts which is one of the first suspicions. Near the end, I tried to get different deposit methods with each account, whether it be Visa check cards or ePassporte."
He says that he multi-accounted as recently as a month ago.
Some people claim that "JJProdigy" allegedly has a four or five laptop setup with wireless cards for multi-accounting.
"JJProdigy" says that his biggest win was around $200k since being banned.
He says that he stakes 20 people.
People have been speculating as to what accounts he has been playing under recently, but nothing has been confirmed as of yet, though there are some strong suspicions.
He admits to buying out an account and finishing out a tournament multiple times.
He says that he has had 2 accounts at the same final table before.
He sometimes "ghosts" his staked players.
People accused him of multi-accounting the $5200 freezeout on Pokerstars last week but he denied it.
He has offered to help the online poker sites try and plug some of their security holes.
People have speculated that he has bought dormant, unused accounts to fuel his multi-accounting.
We'll keep updating this page as more details and confessions are released.
Should be an interesting PCA and Aussie Millions for "JJProdigy." Many players are going to have some harsh words for him, and I can't imagine that Pokerstars will be overly happy that he is playing in the event.
Link to apology
Every has an opinion on how lilholdem954 plays
Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2007
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Cashing in 4/6 Tournaments - 12-21-07 $15,000 day
Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2007
Not a bad day cashed in 4/6 tournaments - $15,000 day
Full Tilt Poker Makes Another Major Bot Bust
Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2007
A few months ago Full Tilt Poker busted a number of "bots" operating in their mid limit Heads Up Limit games. A substantial amount of money was confiscated from the "bot" accounts and redistributed to the victims, and the bots were banned from the site.
Now Full Tilt Poker has banned a number of other "bot" accounts. Actually, they banned these accounts about a month and a half ago, but just started distributing the seized funds yesterday.
"Bot" accounts seem to either prefer the really low limit No Limit Hold'em ring games or the mid limit Limit Hold'em games (heads up). The rationale for operating bots in both games is easy to see: in the case of the low limit No Limit Hold'em games, you could employ a fairly basic strategy of simply pushing all-in if you held a certain range of hands. Due to the weak play at these levels, you are going to get called by extremely weak hands. Heads Up Limit Hold'em is another obvious choice for people employing "bot" technology because the artificial intelligence needed to play a heads-up game is presumably much easier to program than in a short-handed or full ring game.
A few months ago, a number of "bot" accounts were banned from Full Tilt Poker, including "japinthesack" and "beatme1." Hundreds of thousands of dollars were confiscated and returned to the victims of the "bots."
Now, Full Tilt has banned another batch of bots operating in the heads up mid limit Limit Hold'em games. One of these accounts is "pokergirl z", who has apparently had about $47k confiscated from her account. There were a number of other alleged "bot" accounts banned as well.
The owner of the "pokergirl z" account has been posting on 2+2, proclaiming her innocence. As I said earlier, her account was actually banned about a month and a half ago, but Full Tilt Poker just recently started distributing her seized funds.
Her account was initially frozen on October 12th. After a number of weeks of investigation, Full Tilt banned her account permanently, saying that they had assessed her hand histories and "playing patterns" and had determined that she was using an artificial intelligence program. As per their usual policy, Full Tilt is being tight-lipped about exactly how they determined that she was "allegedly" a bot, but one can assume that they use statistical analysis, timing tells and maybe even screenshots of her desktop to come to their conclusion.
"pokergirl z" is obviously not pleased, but there is no way for her to really do anything as Full Tilt has the final say.
It makes you wonder how many alleged "bot" accounts are operating on Full Tilt or any other site at this exact moment.
DAILY HAND QUIZ - Top pair with a player all in, final table of the Sunday Millions
Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2007
Game type: PokerStars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: Final table, 5 players remain
Avg stack: ~11 million
Your image: Aggressive but losing
Opponent’s image: The BB has been fairly straightforward
Your hand: J♠K♠
The setup: You’re down to the last five players in the Sunday Million. The (rounded) payouts remaining are as follows:
5th $41k, 4th $55k, 3rd $68k, 2nd $97k, 1st $194k
You raise UTG to about 1.5 million, roughly 2.5x the BB. The table folds to a short stack in the SB, who pushes for just a little over 1.9 million total. The BB thinks for a second and flat calls. You call and flop top pair on a draw-heavy board:
T♥9♣J♣
The BB checks and it’s your action. What’s your play?
1. Bet large
2. Check
3. Bet small
SEE RESULTS HERE>>>>
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