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Wrapping up JazzyBets coverage of the 2nd Annual PokerBot Championships, over the weekend, the Man vs. Machine Poker match was held with University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group’s Polaris-2 Pokerbot pitted against professional poker players Nick “stoxtrader” Grudzien, Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko, and IJay “doughnutz” Palansky. The Polaris Pokerbot won two matches against the professional poker player teams, with one match-up concluding in a draw.

Here are the official Pokerbot competition results:

So, here at JazzyBets, we try to provide a wide range of opinions about Pokerbots and Pokerbot calculators in general, and recently Jazzy came across this interesting is pokerbot a scam riff over at the old school gamer blog, Original Nintendo. Now granted, the guy who wrote that riff, likely has a formal name, but for our purposes, in playfully addressing the curiousities of whether internet poker players should use Pokerbots, let’s call him, Super Mario Fishstix.

So Super Mario Fishstix starts off with:

“First of all what exactly is Poker Bot? It is a computer program that runs on popular Poker Room clients to read your hands statistically and it recommends the players action. I would not call it a scam exactly because it does provide good statistical information but I would not advise using it.”

Let’s see, Super Mario Fishstix, almost hit the definition of an ICM Bot right. A computer program that runs concurrently with online poker room clients and reads your hand and other player’s chips statistically and executes the most statistically efficient player’s action to WIN MORE HANDS. Please eat a mushroom and get big, Super Mario Fishstix. He goes on to say that these computer programs do provide good statistical information, which is slang for, Pokerbot calculations are smarter than me.

Super Mario Fishstix continued to enlighten with:

“The best question is. How can a Poker Bot pick up obvious reads and tells if it’s information is based on numbers? It can’t think for itself or make gut decisions which are crucial. There is no automatic poker winning machine I am sorry to say. ”

While Independent Chip Modeling can’t pick up some time-based reads and tells, the ICM Bot can play optimal ranges, so that it is statistically possible to win more all-in’s, more showdowns and more tournaments, hands down. Gut decisions and obvious reads lead to one thing, Super Mario Fishstix. Sitting out early.

A Poker Bot, like ICM Bot, for instance, that uses an algorithm synthesizing four major poker specific probability theories, is simply more accurate, more intelligent and more efficient at winning SnG tournaments, more often, over a defined period of time. Combined with multi-tabling capability and online poker room frequent player rakeback deals, this can all add up to a super double jump to your pocketbook and then some, Mario!

Save fun for your Sunday poker night with buddies Luigi and Goomba in your Zelda garage. ICM Bot never gets tired, never feels emotions like “Why didn’t I go All-in on That”, never gets sidetracked by distractions or anything less than completely, and statistically PERFECT poker playing. Super Mario Fishstix, maybe there are no automatic poker winning machines, but that’s only because you didn’t try using the ICM Bot, every couple hours with your online poker SnG playing. Yep, that’s right. You can turn ICM Bot on or off, on demand, even in the middle of a tournament. Oh snap! Instantaneous Poker Smarts!

Ok, we’ll offer Super Mario Fishstix a golden star for the line “If Poker Bot was used a Statistical Learning Program through Poker Rooms the idea would be more realistic to use.”

And now for the grand finale. Why Super Mario Fishstix is every ICM bot calculator player’s dream.

“To become the greatest at poker a player must practice the game with friends, family, or online...”

On that note, we cleverly round out our ICM Bot versus Super Mario Fishstix showdown. We hope you had a little fun with our all-in pocket rockets at you, and we’re really glad you think Poker bots, probably are not a scam. See you at the tables, FISHSTIX!

Online Poker Action from PokerStars TV

Online Poker Action from PokerStars TV

Online Poker Action from PokerStars TV

After much anticipation and excitement among the tech-saavy internet poker community, ICM-Bot , the most advanced multi-tabling poker bot ever developed, is officially released. Here is a quick snapshot of the awesome features for the product launch of this incredible poker bot.

Kung fu grip for Multi-Tabling poker

• The ICM Bot plays with optimal effeciency at up to eight tournament tables at once

Wide range of game types

ICM Bot is created for No Limit hold’em sit and go tournaments. Whether 9-player or 10-player, you’ll be ripping pots and sitting out opponents to your heart’s delight.

• 9-player NL hold’em sit & go
• 9-player NL hold’em sit & go [turbo]
• 10-player NL hold’em sit & go
• 10-player NL hold’em sit & go [turbo]

Highly Advanced Proprietary Game Theory

ICM-Bot uses a highly advanced combination of these game and probability theories to maximize your odds and leverage your best winning potentials.

• Nash Equilibrium
• ICM (Independent Chip Model)
• Bayes’ Theorem
• Optimized EV calculations (expected value)

Stealth Security Options

Stay low profile and virtually undetectable with your ICM bot using window title renaming capability and other proprietary measures.

Order your ICM bot today and start winning more No-Limit Hold’em Sit-n-Go tournaments!

Jazzy Pokerbot reviews today welcomes the ICM-Bot.  ICM-Bot is real-time poker bot software that can play on  multiple tables at the the same time with up to 4 sit & go tournaments simultaneously. The logic of ICM-bot decisions are AUTOMAGICAL meaning, they completely automated and do not require any human assistance. The user only has to open the online poker tables and then start the program. ICM-Bot does the rest! Whoa, that’s hot.

The software uses a variety of poker probability theorems including the Nash Equilibrium and Bayes Theorem to make its decisions. It also uses a real-time ICM calculator in collaboration with a database of optimized +EV diff. strategy.

The ICM-Bot can be used with Pokerstars and will be supporting Full Tilt Poker and Party Poker very soon. Stay tuned to JazzyBets Pokerbot coverage for more on the poker player technology for winning more pots!

This summer, during July 4-9, 2008, the Co-founder of Stoxpoker, an online poker instruction destination, is set to go head-to-head versus Polaris, a super PokerBot, that comprises of an intricate series of poker-playing computer programs created by the scientific wizards at the University of Alberta. This exciting event will be held at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas during the Gaming Life expo.

According to an independent poker room and a marketing survey firm JupiterResearch, they have discovered that for younger players, poker has become even more popular than ever before

The results were especially true for Germany, Sweden, Poland and Hungary, which all saw the ranks of younger online poker players increase substantially over the past year.

For a second consecutive year, the independent poker room and JupiterResearch collaborated on a survey that identifies the demographic and behavioural characteristics of poker players. This year, 10 new markets were added to the survey, which now covers Europe and Asia for a total of 16 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland). Nearly 3,000 poker players in these 16 countries completed the survey online.

Younger online poker players increase in number across Europe since February 2007 –
One of the most notable changes in this year’s survey was a shift of the age demographic of European online poker players, with the biggest growth seen in the 18-24 yrs category. Germany, for instance, has shown considerable growth of its number of younger players with 41% of respondents aged between 18 and 24 years compared to 17% in 2007. Similarly, in Sweden the younger age group accounts for 25% of online players which was just 18% in 2007. The newly added countries such as Poland and Hungary have the highest percentages in the 18 to 24 year category which account for 58% and 61% of their players. In Spain however, the percentage of players in the 18-24 age group has remained at 28% since 2007 but the country has seen an increase in the number of 25-34 year olds playing poker online (42%).

Female online poker player ranks grow across Europe since 2007 –

The 2008 survey also identified an increase in the number of female online poker players. This is particularly true for countries such as Spain which now has 44% female players compared to 16% in 2007; Italy with 34% of its players being women (compared to 18% in 2007); and, to a lesser extent Germany, where 35% of poker players are female compared to 32% in 2007. In the Nordic countries where online poker is a much more mature market, there is a larger percentage of female players with Norway dominating at 46% female, Finland 38% and Sweden 37%. Conversely, in eastern European countries where poker is still very much an upward trend, the online poker market is dominated by men with only 28% female online players in Hungary and 27% in Poland.

The fun aspect of poker is what attracts European players most –There is no distinct geographical split between countries which play the game for fun and those which play for money, although players who come from countries where poker is more developed tend to want to play more to win money. According to the survey, 68% of all European respondents play for fun and 54% highlight the convenience of online play. This is true for Poland where 88% of respondents play for fun, Sweden (77%) and Austria (72%), and in Germany where online players appreciate being able to play at any time (66%), as well as in Switzerland (66%) and Denmark (63%). According to the survey, over one third of Swedish and German online players also find poker challenging and enjoy improving their skill while playing, as do Austrians and Hungarians, who enjoy playing to improve their technique (44% in Austria, 41% in Hungary).