Entries categorized as ‘Technology’
“Social networking is the new hot web concept. Mainstream successes like MySpace and Facebook have brought on a deluge of social networking sites based around a simple idea: Get people together, and people with similar interests will find each other and create something cool.
I’ve long thought that poker was ripe for such a site. Poker networking can help you schedule home games, coordinate trips to Vegas, find people to talk about hands with, and more. You can show off your tournament successes on your profile page, post photos of yourself or friends, or tell bad beat stories on your blog. Poker and social networking are both hot, so they seem like a good match.”
Noted Poker Authority (08/10/07)
Categories: Online · Players · Technology
“Kenny Rosenblatt recently placed his company’s automated digital poker table in the Hustler Casino, one of Southern California’s temples of poker.
His next goal entails extending the reach of his product to the poker rooms of the Las Vegas Strip.
“We’re planning an expansion into Las Vegas and Atlantic City in the next couple of years,” said Rosenblatt, chief executive of Arkadium Inc., a New York City-based game software company and co-creator of the “FastDeal” computerized poker table.
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Categories: Casinos · Nevada · Technology
“NTN Buzztime, Inc. , a leading developer and distributor of Play Along TV(R) entertainment and technology, today unveiled the newly enhanced edition of its most popular game, Buzztime Texas Hold’em Poker. The Buzztime network, consisting of nearly 4,000 bars and restaurants across North America and the UK, features trivia, sports, casual and casino games played on televisions within each location.
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Categories: Bars · Technology
“Four Winds Casino Resort, in New Buffalo, Michigan, opened the world’s largest automated poker room today, running exclusively on PokerTek (NASDAQ: PTEK) poker tables. The Four Winds Poker Room features fifteen PokerPro 10-seat tables and four PokerPro Heads-Up tables.
The Four Winds property, which opened on August 2nd, is owned by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and managed by Lakes Entertainment. Four Winds has over 3,000 slot machines, 100 table games, 6 restaurants, 5 bars and 165 hotel rooms in addition to the 19-table poker room.
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Categories: Michigan · Technology
“UltimateBet pro Phil Hellmuth today announced the launch of Texas Hold’em 2007 with Phil Hellmuth, a follow-up release to the best selling mobile poker game, Texas Hold’em by Phil Hellmuth.
“I’m amazed at how crisp and clear the new poker game looks on a cell phone,” said Hellmuth. “Not to mention the ease of play and the new options … it’s cutting edge.”
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Categories: Mobile · Players · Technology
“Ujogo (pronounced “you-joe-go”) today announced the public beta of its new, visually engaging online free poker site for U.S. players of all levels. While many online gaming and poker sites exist today, Ujogo is the first to offer the combination of rewards for winning play, a graphically rich environment, educational and training tools to help players improve, and social networking tools to facilitate player interaction.
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Categories: Online · Technology
“The future of poker isn’t hunkered down in a smoky card room in the back of roadside tavern. It’s not wearing a weathered face, chewing on a cigar and glaring lightning bolts from beneath a 10 gallon hat.
The future of poker is fresh-faced and fast-paced. It’s intelligent and cocky and ultra-aggressive. And it’s likely sitting in front of a computer right now, trying to take all your money.
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Categories: Lifestyle · Online · Technology · Tournaments · WSOP
“Back in 2003, the World Series of Poker main event started a frenzy that not only catapulted poker into the mainstream, but elevated it to the level of “sport.”
Just four years later, on the eve of the 2007 main event, it certainly seems as if mixed martial arts has supplanted poker as the niche sport du jour.
So if UFC is the new poker … where does that leave the old poker?
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Categories: Online · Technology · Television · WSOP
“Coming soon to a bar near you: Electronic poker tables.
PokerTek, the company behind the PokerPro electronic poker tables, has announced it will distribute the heads-up version of its electronic poker tables to bars everywhere. And to add to its mainstream appeal, the machine is officially called the Heads-Up Challenge World Series of Poker Edition, and will be branded with WSOP logos thanks to a licensing agreement it signed with Harrah’s earlier this year.
A distribution network to get the machine in bars around the country is in place. Earlier this month, PokerTek signed a domestic distribution agreement with nine companies that specialize in distributing amusement games.”
CardPlayer (06/27/07)
Categories: Technology
Although it’s not a built-in application, it looks like I can remove one of my “Final Four” iPhone applications from my list. Scenario Poker (US$10) has announced that they’re developing an iPhone-capable version of the Texas Hold’Em game for the iPhone. An online preview is available.
ZDNet (06/25/07)
Categories: Technology
