OK, so who was the expert who suggested PokerStars' nonstandard reshuffle algorithm? None other than Barry Greenstein:

Don't shoot me, I'm only a poker player ( Read more... )

At the first break, I'm in 18th place (688 remaining of 734 entrants), having doubled my chip stack in the first hour.

Only one stupid calldown so far (drawing dead and called a value-bet with a J.)

Tom McEvoy is at my table, and has the least chips at my table.

My 2+2 magazine article on setting Chinese Poker w/ 2-7 hands is up: http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/issue34/Gritter1007.html Thanks again to all who read the article in draft form ( Read more... )

Doing better in the 2nd-chance. I have 7050 chips at the break, good enough for 3rd. Chris Fargis (savemyskin is catching up quickly with 6560.) 1st place has 8700, 2nd 7480, only three places pay. Timprov is 17th (in the field of 26 remaining) with 2410.

5-handed table to start. The two players on my right are awful. (First hand I played, guy drew to 7654 and called with a pair of 4's.) I've made two wheels and gotten paid off both times, up to 3560 chips (after starting with 3000.) The player on my left has been sitting out--- he played one hand, check-raised me on the third round with #3, and ( Read more... )

My (entirely too useful) triple draw article is appearing in next month's 2+2 magazine (August). Also, I now have email addresses for all of the August authors...

I submitted the second CP2-7 article this evening. Thanks to dmorr, Matt Grapenthien, and hgfalling for feedback.

But I'm in 4th and I need 3rd. :(

Three stacks all about the same size as mine (10-11K) at at 1600/3200 it's anybody's game.

This is not the first time I have discovered a bug, hunted it down, and discovered a FIXME explaining more or less exactly what goes wrong.

Unfortunately in at least 90% of the cases the original author of the FIXME was myself.

timprov posted a triple draw tournament history that had a lot of inconsistent win/loss summaries. Here's the problem:

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My TD2-7 third-round solver has provided its first answer. This case is 7432 vs 7432 with 3.5 big bets in the pot:

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Daniel Negreanu joined up with PokerStars. His handle is "KidPoker". He's playing 5/10 TD2-7 at the moment and the amount of chat is just insane. (Not to mention inane.)