Although the members of Team Poker News from four different continents came are the eight players, which “in the money” were all from Europe (Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Ireland and England). The finisher of Team Poker News at the WSOP 2007 are:

Brian de Bruijn –
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470.Platz – Brian made it to the Bubble 120 seats still continue to come forward and could have a prize money amounting to $ 29,883 look. He had by Poker News at a Freerool on Full Tilt Poker qualified, which he ultimately $ 30,000 and a free trip to Las Vegas brought.

Andrew Grimason – 466.Platz – As he grew up in Dublin, Andrew used his Irish to its competitors last nerve to rob. He played for three days an excellent poker and received 466 for his place prize money amounting to $ 29,883. Andrew had at MANSION Poker for the WSOP and for the team qualified Poker News. Its use was $ 100, a relatively small investment if it is in relation to his prize money and travel to Las Vegas.

Jeppe Nielsen – 462.Platz – Nielsen, which from Copenhagen / Denmark comes, it had only a few seconds after Grimason was also eliminated and the same profit sum of $ 29,883. Jeppe has his ticket for the WSOP also with a $ 100 satellite on MANSION Poker won. Jeppe long time was short stacked, but still made it to space for space to the front to fight and his prize money to.

Oliver Maingay – 397.Platz – Maingay, a student of electrical engineering, from Surreey in England, had all his ammunition during the last few days verschossen, but still managed to gradually shifted from a payment to the next level to hangeln. He had ranked 397 and was eliminated as a $ 34,664 prize money. He had qualified by MANSION Poker and a total of $ 34,000 win – not bad for use in the amount of $ 100.

Daniel Goldstein – 389.Platz – Daniel is very long a big fan of card games, he loves it “Go” and Bridge to play. A few years ago, he started with the poker and plays since that time with ever increasing enthusiasm, both online poker, as well as live poker. Daniel had about Poker News at MANSION Poker logged and his team WSOP Poker News package with a $ 100 satellite won. Daniel, which from Newcastle / England originates, now has $ 34,664 more in the bag with his colleagues to impress Bridge.

Nils Ersson – 355.Platz – Ersson has started playing poker because they have nothing else to do, if he and his football team traveled to the games – Nils has the poker in a bus learned during this on the streets was . Errson documented in Hudiksvall, Sweden resident, had also invested $ 100 in MANSION Poker in one of the Mansion Poker / Team Poker News WSOP satellites for the WSOP qualified. Now he can, his colleagues on the football team told that he poker to $ 34,664 richer.

Ultimately, were among the last 300 players only 2 members of Team Poker News remained.

Ed de Haas – 71.Platz – The ‘gentle giant’ of Team Poker News, Ed is a former pro basketball from Holland and attaches from crest to heel about 210 cm, so he was by far the biggest player among the remaining participants . He showed us his A-game, to end with a pot, which it at 71 remaining players in the Top 5 chip leader would have, ausgedrawt. Ed could have a prize money amounting to $ 130,228 look.

Mikkel Madsen – 20.Platz – The last hope for Team Poker News, was the Mikkel Madsen from Denmark. Like many of his team Poker News colleague, had Mikkel MANSION Poker at Poker News logged on, and then his team Poker News WSOP package with a $ 100 satellite won. In contrast to his team colleagues, however, made it Mikkel from his use of a total of $ 100 to $ 333,490. He played 6 days excellent poker and had a real chance at the final table. Unfortunately, he had something unfortunate to be eliminated Course 20. Madsen, a prize money amounting to $ 333,490 to take home.

We want all members of Team Poker News to their success in the 2007 WSOP congratulations. We look forward very much to our team next poker news event, the Poker News Cup, which in October this year in Melbourne, Australia. We offer them the opportunity by dozens of special Freerolls for this event to qualify. You can have nothing to lose! Take a look at necessarily the Poker News Cup special section on our website. What can you win? Who knows – certainly a lot of money. We’ll see you in Melbourne.

The poker professionals Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Ali Eslami have begun against Polaris
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Polaris and have defeated. It was the first man against machine “poker match. This 2-day tournament, divided into 4 rounds, in the annual” Artificial Intelligence “Conference in Vancouver, Canada held. On Monday Polaris was still in the lead, although the lead was just. However, on Tuesday went into two days rounds, Laak and Eslami the outcome for themselves.
Polaris was at the University of Alberta in the Department of Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG). These deal with artificial intelligence in computer programs. The leader of the group is Jonathan Schaeffer.

We had the opportunity on Tuesday afternoon with Prof. Schaeffer to speak, just like the 3rd Round the end zuneigte. We have Schaeffer asked what the outcome of this match for the CPRG would mean.

“If we lose, we will first have to lick our wounds around us then to the development to bring about an even better technology to develop. If we win, then we will also analyse the game to be able to understand what happened. And even if Laak and Eslami win, but is an exceptional situation for the players, played with relatively little hands. Under normal circumstances would the players much more effectively against the program can play, “says Schaeffer.

Of course we Schaeffer also to the panic in terms of poker bots raised his opinion: “I would like to underline that we do not play online poker. No software is capable of us on any online poker site to play. “He adds further complication is that they do not have the goal of software for the online area. (Who is still insecure, it should perhaps our first article on the topic read: “The great fear of poker bots”).

It is here for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) worked and poker offers an interesting study area. It is a profitable game in relation to the study of a game and also relates to real problems faced by AI computer in the world have to deal, such as anything unexpected or not calculable / predictable happens.

The Match
Each round was composed of 500 hands, was played Limit Hold’em, the blinds were $ 5 / $ 10 and $ 10 / $ 20 The first round was on Monday 23 July started at noon. Eslami was first with a little Polaris friends before the game on a video wall was projected so that visitors to the conference were able to watch it. At the same time as Laak sat just for the Hyatt Regency Hotel, were obviously for all (Laak, Eslami, Polaris), only the community cards to see. Laak and Eslami each played the same cards against Polaris, therefore, was also the local separation of the two important.

Eslamis opening game was marked by ups and downs. Approximately half of the first round was $ 800 Eslami forward to his leadership for the next hundred hands began to wane. A recent upward trend could then Eslami but with $ 398 advantage to conclude the first round. During Its Laak had a miserable start against Polaris lose. Before considering the first 200 hands played were he was already back $ 1500! In comparing the two players, it was interesting to observe that Eslami, although he played the same cards, but lost almost half as much as Laak. However, Laak was at the end of the round again hochpushen and ended, after 500 hands played, with a backlog of $ 465th

Now if you look at both rounds added together would then be the head of Polaris only been gossamer, namely $ 70 – only seven small limit operations. Before the game but it was agreed that only a winner is established, if at least 25 small bets limit ($ 250) are present leadership – for whoever, whether human or machine. If this is not achieved, then there is no winner, because the statistical fluctuation range is too low. In this case, was the starting points 0:0, that is undecided. Man and machine were still fairly equal.

On Monday evening, the second round started. This time it was Laak in the public space and had to play Eslami in hotel rooms. This time there were quite a few spectators, nearly 100 onlookers were introduced, including Laaks girlfriend, actress Jennifer Tilly. The comments were some of Laak Lacher, repeatedly said he “Polaris is sick”.

This time, perhaps strengthened by the public, starts Laak heavily in the round.
The hand Nr.198 was particularly exciting. Laak had 9s/10s as pocket cards on the big blind, Polaris got Qd/10h. Polaris plays a raise, paid Laak, the flop brings 9d/10c/5h. This check both. The Turn shows 8c. Laak is just to raise one of Polaris to get. Of course paid Laak. Der River bringt dann noch 2s und Laak macht ein check-call zu Polaris und erhält den Pot mit $80. Ganz kontinuierlich konnte Laak sein Spiel so fortsetzen und konnte seine Führung mit $1,560 letzendlich ausbauen.

Leider erging es Eslami, mit den selben Karten wie Laak, weniger gut. Polaris konnte mit 95,5 kleinen Einsätzen (also $995) einen knappen Sieg erzielen. Somit, Laak und Eslami zusammengezählt, war der Punktestand nach zwei Runden Polaris 1 und Laak-Eslami 0.

Vor dem Spiel am Dienstag bekamen Laak und Eslami Spielanalysen des Vortages. Diesmal begann Laak die dritte Runde im für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglichen Raum. Nach 250 gespielten Händen war sein Vorteil nur knappe $30. Nach der 425. Hand stand es aber schon sehr gut, Laak hatte sich $1,800 erspielt. Er gewann mit $1,415, und war natürlich sehr gespannt auf das Ergebnis seines Kollegen Eslami, der im Hotelzimmer die selbe Session spielte. Endlich kam das Ergebnis, Eslami hatte nur $635 verloren – in Summe (Laak+Eslami) beendeten beide die dritte Runde mit einem Plus von $820, also 82 kleine Einsätze. Somit hatte das Team „Mensch” erstmal eine Runde gegen Polaris gewonnen, dafür gab es ein Preisgeld von $5,000. Punktestand nach drei Runden: Polaris 1, Laak-Eslami 1

Die letzten 500 Hände (die 4. Spielrunde) war somit wirklich spannend geworden. Wer würde das Match für sich entscheiden? Vor dem Spiel gab es wieder eine Strategie Besprechung, Laak meinte vor dem Spiel noch: „Es ist so heftig, ich hatte noch nie so ein Wirr-Warr in meinem Kopf, vor einem Pokerspiel.”

Eslami war es, der sich im öffentlichen Raum hinsetzte und Laak ging wieder in sein Hotelzimmer. Der Start war für Eslami richtig gut, sein Drilling 9 schlug ein Paar Bube von Polaris. Hundert gespielte Hände später rutschte er aber wieder auf ein Defizit von $255. Während seines Spiel erklärte er dem Publikum immer wieder seine Strategie und wie schwierig es sei gegen so einen unerbittlichen Gegner zu spielen. Der lange Atem schien sich auszuzahlen, denn nach 325 Händen hatte er wieder ein Plus von $895. Diese Führung ließ sich Eslami bis zum Schluss nicht mehr nehmen und beendete die 4. Runde mit $460 vor Polaris. Laak kam nur wenig später aus seinem Zimmer und berichtet, dass auch er mit einem Vorsprung von $110 das Spiel beenden konnte. Zusammen hatten sie also eine Führung von $570 angehäuft, somit 57 kleine Einsätze. Das bedeutet Sieg Nr. 2 für das Team “Mensch”. Der Endstand: Laak-Eslami 2 zu Polaris 1. Somit konnten sich die menschlichen Spieler nochmal $5,000 Preisgeld sichern. Die Maschine musste sich dem menschlichen Intellekt beugen…

Die Forschungen gehen weiter
Objektiv betrachtet ist der Vorsprung nach insgesamt 4,000 gespielten Händen mit $365 bzw. 36,5 kleinen Einsätzen aber eher gering. Eslami meinte sogar: „Das war ja eigentlich kein Sieg in dem Sinn.” Trotz alle dem gibt dieses Match Schaeffer und der CPRG die Möglichkeit eine Fülle von neuen Informationen zu analysieren.

Erst letzte Woche wurde bekannt, dass schon an einem neuen Programm getüftelt wird. Nach über 20 Jahren Forschung soll diese nun wirklich unschlagbar sein und immer den beste Action spielen. Wir haben Schaeffer gefragt ob er denn vor hat Poker zu „lösen”, also mathematisch zu entschlüsseln: „Naja, in 5 bis 10 Jahren kann ein Heads-up Holdem Limit Spiel in all seinen Facetten gelöst sein. Wir werden weiter dran arbeiten, denn Poker macht einfach Spass.”

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Poker is in Scandinavia is not so well known, but it has been in the land of the Vikings during this relatively short time a completely new poker style – just as fearless and aggressive as creative, this is the style of the game led to the Scandinavians in the whole world is always among the top players of all Tournaments to be found.

Now is the extent, Europe and the rest of the world will challenge the Scandinavian agencies and within the framework of the European Poker Tour from January 17 until 20 January in Denmark to demonstrate where the best poker player in the world can be found.

Due to this challenge, you can be sure that some of the best poker pros of the continent at this 3-day 5000 € buy-in tournament.

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And then again there in the poker industry an unexpected merger. One of Europe’s leading poker network and software provider Tribeca Tables Europe Limited sold its poker business to one of its main competitors, Playtech Limited.

Play Tech Limited (based in Cyprus) on the London AIM exchange and is publicly traded in the industry as a designer, developer and licenser of gambling software known (both online, as well as for off-line solutions). The software Tech will play e.g. Titan Poker, Poker770, CD Poker, U.S. Poker, Poker Ocean and Betfred (including The specially developed for Manchester United version of the software). Playtech also belongs to the leading software developers for online casinos, bingo, mobile gaming, fixed-odds games and live gaming.

The company Tribeca Tables Europe Limited also develops software for online gambling and is privately owned. Tribeca’s software is used by some well-known poker room used as a platform for example, VC Poker, Paddy Power Poker, and Bowman’s Poker. Recently, Tribeca Tain Poker with the merged network, which mainly in the Scandinavian region is very well known (the largest and most famous poker room of the Tain network is Expekt.com).

The final cost of the acquisition by Playtech, arise from the profits and assets, which Tribeca in the year following acquisition generates. The partners had agreed that the maximum price is $ 139,000,000, this amount would be only in the case whose payable if the business running well above average and the expectation would be significantly exceeded. Based on current projections, it is expected that the purchase price is approximately $ 75,000,000. It is therefore likely out that the final selling price somewhere between those two amounts.

Playtech pays the takeover in 4 rates. The first installment is due when the first defined terms of the acquisition have been met. The second, third and fourth rate will be 9 months, 18 months and 24 months after the signing of the agreement due.

The acquisition of the Tribeca acquired assets are available for the PlayStation Network Tech extremely profitable. In calendar year 2005, Tribeca on a turnover of $ 6,200,000 gross profit of $ 5,300,000 earned. In the recent past, the sales of Tribeca, however, increased dramatically less, the gross profit during the last 3 months of this year 3,400,000 $ (on a turnover of $ 3900000).

Once the acquisition of Tribeca assets is completed, is intended that the Tribeca Poker Rooms within 6 months of the Playtech platform migrated.

Playtech said: “It is expected that the merger of both companies significant savings to the additional costs. In addition, it is expected that the Einahmen by the increased player liquidity and the introduction of Playtech Casino Deals at the former members of the Tribeca network, will increase “.

Playtech also said that the acquisition will contribute significantly to the market share of the global Playtech gambling market to increase significantly and thus in line with company strategy, which is aimed at the product portfolio continues to expand and extend the geographical forward.

The CEO of Playtech Limited, Avigur Zmora, says:

“This acquisition of Tribeca is Playtech an important milestone, with this transaction, we are able to play the tech company to the largest poker network in the world, which no players from the United States accepted. Tribeca offers our company an excellent addition, since many of the Tribeca licensees exactly cover the geographical locations in which Playtech at the moment is not represented. ”

“We look forward to the licensee of the Tribeca network in our ranks to welcome and are proud of our new partners the best combination of experience in the poker Buss Innes and our world-leading technologies, to be able to offer. Both Tribeca, as well as Playtech have decided the transition period as smooth as possible, to ensure that the new members in Playtech poker network, offer their services during the transitional period to continue without restrictions can offer.

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Now, of course the question is why the Inter Poker
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They saw it all so bright… a constant back and forth seemed almost the “off” for the contract to mean. Harsche continues criticism from the EU, because this state treaty clearly violated the freedom to provide services of the EU internal market fails. EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie Mc Creevy now threatened with infringement proceedings against Germany. Because the state gambling provider will be allocated by the State Treaty continues
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preferential treatment while non-state providers “outside” into account.

Still in April, EU Commissioner Verheugen an ultimatum to the EU-compliant revision of the State Treaty and even stressed that because of the Internet ban the procedure against Germany might be expanded.
In retrospect considered, not all countries agreed hastily, repeatedly expressed the leaders’ countries of concern to the draft, a tough process since 2006. This is useful, but nothing sirs, but when the signature on paper!

What does this mean for now all the online gaming market? Is this now the German variant of the “Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of the U.S.?
Not quite, because accounts are not (yet) frozen. In principle, everything is still the old, which means that it is legally prohibited German citizens continue to online portals to collect money. Who does not move in grey areas will need to remain in casinos pilgrimage. Nevertheless, the question arises: Who operates the expense of millions of online poker customers?

Even if the EU is the bright Nebelstreif for a free market in the gaming sector could be – until next year (2008), an infringement procedure. And this can drag for years – an expensive undertaking for Germany, and ultimately back to the taxpayer.

How useful such laws are now also shows step by step in the U.S.. Bill Frist has fewer and fewer votes for the UIGEA. The Poker Players Alliance “has in recent months greatly increase its pressure.
The last word is neither here nor spoken in the United States.