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Rise Of The Poker Bots 8/13/2008 (Michael Stetz, San Diego Union-Tribune) Using a computer to beat chess masters is so 1997. Today, programmers are gunning for the world's best Texas Hold 'em players. Forget Deep Blue's mastery of bishops, queens and knights. Think pocket aces, open-ended straight draws, the flop – all calculated by increasingly popular poker bots. Last month, for the first time, a computer program beat top online poker players in a contest called “Man vs. Machine.”  Read More
Casinos Get the Lead Out of Poker Chips 8/13/2008 (SFGate.com) Since before Wyatt Earp gambled with Doc Holliday in Tombstone, Arizona, and the rich and famous flocked to Monte Carlo casinos on the Riviera, poker chips have been weighted down with lead, a toxic metal. In the latest showdown under the voter-adopted state anti-toxics law, an Oakland nonprofit with a a long string of notches in its environmental-safety belt two weeks ago forged a clean poker chip agreement with a major manufacturer and 21 casino owners to get the lead out. Handling the chips exposes dealers and players to the lead, argued researchers at the Center for Environmental Health. Pregnant women who work at the casinos or gamble regularly put their offspring at risk of mental retardation, and the expectant mothers don't even know it, the group's representatives told the gaming industry during a year of negotiation. Read More
Slump unlucky for U.S. casinos 8/13/2008 (Calgary Herald) Gambling - Casino gambling revenues on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City fell after cash-strapped U.S. consumers curbed spending on entertainment and travel. Gambling revenue on the Strip dropped three per cent to $486.4 million US in June, resulting in the first fiscal-year decline in six years, according to Nevada Gaming Control Board data released Monday. In Atlantic City, gamblers bet 6.6 per cent less, or $438.7 million, in July, the 14th decline in 16 months, New Jersey's Casino Control Commission said. Read More
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