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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.” About that time, a Texas Hold 'em program created by a Hillcrest resident finished in a three-way tie for second place in an annual contest that pits artificial intelligence poker programs against each other. The program is called “Fell Omen 2” and its play “has no weaknesses,” said creator Ian Fellows, a researcher and statistician with the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry, who developed the program in his spare time. Far from the Texas Hold 'em video games you find in stores, these artificial intelligence creations can figure out the many angles and odds of the game and make bets and decisions accordingly. They even bluff.  Full Story
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. Gaming Partners International Corp., or GPI, previously known as Paulson Gaming Supplies, signed the agreement. The company is the market leader in making poker chips for 28 of the 30 largest U.S. casinos, according its Web site. Paulson makes chips in Mexico, Bud Jones in Las Vegas and Bourgogne et Grasset in France. Research from the Center for Environmental Health found that Paulson poker chips contain as much as 47 percent lead. The manufacture agreed to start making chips that contain no more than 0.005 percent of lead by Nov. 1, 2008. The old leaded poker chips can remain in the casinos, but the gambling establishments must post warnings and advice to wash hands. Full Story
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. The slump at the two largest U.S. gambling centres has begun to take its toll on the companies that make the most money there. The decline in Las Vegas prompted Boyd Gaming Corp. to delay construction of its $4.75-billion Echelon Strip resort development. Las Vegas Strip takings were down for the sixth straight month. Full Story
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