Chris "Jesus" Ferguson enters the film industry

17 April 2010

Poker and the “Big Screen” simply do not mix, or at least they have not done in the past.

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Poker Affiliate Programs: Using blogs to increase your Affiliate Program Sales

22 February 2010

Share In recent years, the internet has experienced a large growth in the number of communities, forums, social networks and blogs, and even when most internet users and web surfers are familiar with these concepts, not many people is aware about the tremendous potential behind these free services. A blog (a contraction of the term “web and log”) are commonly used to keep personal diaries, post personal commentaries, descriptions of events, or distribute other material such as music or video.

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Talking Chess, Poker, and AI

26 January 2010

The Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has an interesting new piece in the February 11, 2010 issue of The New York Review of Books , a review of Spanish writer Diego Rasskin-Gutman’s Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence of the Human Mind . Much of the article concerns the book, but toward the end Kasparov makes a couple of interesting references to poker — comparing it to chess and talking about both games in the context of advancing research in the field of artificial intelligence — that I thought I’d share here. Kasparov begins by recounting how back in 1985 — after he had defeated Anatoly Karpov and become World Chess Champion at age 22 — he took on 32 chess-playing computers in a much publicized event in Hamburg and beat them all

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An Academic Approach to Poker (Gets Dumbed Down)

13 January 2010

Noticed an item in yesterday’s USA Today about online poker, a reference to a newly-published study about online poker called “Social and Psychological Challenges of Poker” by Kyle Siler, a doctoral student in sociology at Cornell University. As usually happens with these articles that try to summarize a discipline-specific study for a wide audience, the USA Today piece boils Siler’s article down to one simple, easy-to-digest claim, essentially announcing that it shows “Poker wins often lead to bigger losses .” In other words, the USA Today article makes it sounds as though Siler’s exhaustive study of a large sample of online poker hands proves that players who win a little tend to lose it back and then some — confirming, in a way, the fears of those who object to poker and/or gambling as an inevitable road to ruin, regardless of one’s short-term successes

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The Palazzo Las Vegas Celebrates Holiday Season with Arctic-Inspired Winter Decor

02 December 2009

While guests of The Palazzo Las Vegas will enjoy the usual sunny weather for the holiday season, from December 9 through the New Year they’ll also encounter the winter décor display anchored by a special Arctic visitor: a 16-foot tall polar bear mother and 6-foot tall polar bear baby, made entirely of a specially-developed white poinsettia named “Polar Bear.” The “Polar Bear” Poinsettia is developed exclusively by Ecke Ranch. The strong white coloration of the “Polar Bear” Poinsettia with its bracts of deep green veining is the perfect topiary fur for the polar bear display. The custom, hand-sculpted and hand-painted heads and paws, constructed by Design Solutions, bring the bears to life.  The mother and baby bear, consisting of approximately 10,000 poinsettias planted in sphagnum moss, weighs in at approximately 5,000 lbs

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