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New Poker Headset Claims To Read Player’s Minds

Will you wear this headset during a poker tournament?

Serious invention or a crazy marketing ploy? That’s the question poker players across the community are asking after reports of a new poker headset capable of reading brainwaves was revealed.

Reviewed and reported on by British newspaper, The Daily Star, the mind reading device, known as Emotiv, could potentially help poker players refine their skills and reduce their tells according to the developers.

Despite looking like something from Back to the Future, the headset is reportedly able to read the user’s brain activity and provide feedback on whether they are frustrated or excited.

This data can, in turn, be used to assess the fluctuations in user’s performance during a session. The overall result is an outline of how certain moods affect the relative skills of the subject.

Headset Reads Reporter’s Mind

British newspaper, the Daily Star, was keen to test out the developer’s claims so they dispatched a team to the recent WPT National event in London to put the headset through its paces. The paper’s reporter, John Ward, was the man given exclusive access to the device and after an hour of grinding with the electrodes attached to his head the results were logged in the system.

After the reports were analyzed by a representative from SimpleUsability, the company behind Emotiv, it was revealed that Ward performed better when he was less excited and less frustrated. In fact, as the session went on and his readings showed he was in a state of calm, his performance improved and he was able to win some pots despite being a novice player at best.

Although revealing that players perform better when they’re calm isn’t exactly revolutionary, a number of pros who witnessed the headset in action did suggest that it could be useful for eliminating tells. Whether someone will be willing to sit with a series of electrodes attached to their head for long enough is another question.

+EV or another Poker Novelty?

After hearing about the new device, psychology expert and the author of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler said that the “revolutionary” product probably isn’t as industry-defining as the developers may think. In a statement given to PokerStrategy.com, Tendler posited that Emotiv will probably win the “no-shit” award among poker players.

“The ‘great insight’ this product gives really just deserves the no-shit award. Making better decisions when less excited and less frustrated is a phenomenon that’s been known for over 100 years. There’s nothing groundbreaking here. This product could be valuable for players who lack emotional awareness. However, it doesn’t show how to correct, resolve or train their emotions,” explained Tendler.

A spokesperson for partypoker, a site which seems to have an interest in the product, disagreed with Tendler and believes this product could shake-up the industry and the way players improve their skills.

“As part of this activity partypoker have set up a task force to shake up the poker market in the UK putting ‘everyman’ at the centre of everything they do. We have teamed up with SimpleUsability Ltd to literally get inside players’ heads and see how they react and respond to partypoker’s games in a bid to make play more exciting and deliver the best experience for players,” said the partypoker representative.

The poker industry has had its fair share of “revolutionary” products over the years but many have failed to change the game in a way some may have expected. Could the new mind reading headset by SimpleUsability be any different?

Source.

New Poker Headset Claims To Read Player’s Minds

Will you wear this headset during a poker tournament?

Serious invention or a crazy marketing ploy? That’s the question poker players across the community are asking after reports of a new poker headset capable of reading brainwaves was revealed.

Reviewed and reported on by British newspaper, The Daily Star, the mind reading device, known as Emotiv, could potentially help poker players refine their skills and reduce their tells according to the developers.

Despite looking like something from Back to the Future, the headset is reportedly able to read the user’s brain activity and provide feedback on whether they are frustrated or excited.

This data can, in turn, be used to assess the fluctuations in user’s performance during a session. The overall result is an outline of how certain moods affect the relative skills of the subject.

Headset Reads Reporter’s Mind

British newspaper, the Daily Star, was keen to test out the developer’s claims so they dispatched a team to the recent WPT National event in London to put the headset through its paces. The paper’s reporter, John Ward, was the man given exclusive access to the device and after an hour of grinding with the electrodes attached to his head the results were logged in the system.

After the reports were analyzed by a representative from SimpleUsability, the company behind Emotiv, it was revealed that Ward performed better when he was less excited and less frustrated. In fact, as the session went on and his readings showed he was in a state of calm, his performance improved and he was able to win some pots despite being a novice player at best.

Although revealing that players perform better when they’re calm isn’t exactly revolutionary, a number of pros who witnessed the headset in action did suggest that it could be useful for eliminating tells. Whether someone will be willing to sit with a series of electrodes attached to their head for long enough is another question.

+EV or another Poker Novelty?

After hearing about the new device, psychology expert and the author of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler said that the “revolutionary” product probably isn’t as industry-defining as the developers may think. In a statement given to PokerStrategy.com, Tendler posited that Emotiv will probably win the “no-shit” award among poker players.

“The ‘great insight’ this product gives really just deserves the no-shit award. Making better decisions when less excited and less frustrated is a phenomenon that’s been known for over 100 years. There’s nothing groundbreaking here. This product could be valuable for players who lack emotional awareness. However, it doesn’t show how to correct, resolve or train their emotions,” explained Tendler.

A spokesperson for partypoker, a site which seems to have an interest in the product, disagreed with Tendler and believes this product could shake-up the industry and the way players improve their skills.

“As part of this activity partypoker have set up a task force to shake up the poker market in the UK putting ‘everyman’ at the centre of everything they do. We have teamed up with SimpleUsability Ltd to literally get inside players’ heads and see how they react and respond to partypoker’s games in a bid to make play more exciting and deliver the best experience for players,” said the partypoker representative.

The poker industry has had its fair share of “revolutionary” products over the years but many have failed to change the game in a way some may have expected. Could the new mind reading headset by SimpleUsability be any different?

Source.

Happy weekend everyone!

World Series of Poker Goes Out to the World

Morocco, Italy and Mexico will be the first international stops for WSOP Circuit events.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced that it is extending its Circuit events internationally. The first overseas WSOP Circuit tournaments will be held in Marrakesh on March 7.

“It’s time to emphasize the ‘World’ in World Series of Poker and more aggressively partner with leading casino operators at the regional level,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.

The WSOP brand is already known in Europe through the WSOP Europe brand which hosts full bracelet events. The WSOP Circuit events award rings rather than bracelets, but they are highly prized nevertheless.

Buy-ins at Circuit tournaments are set at a lower level than for the main World Series events in Las Vegas. Currently there are twenty venues around the US that play host to their own WSOP Circuit event.

The winners of both the new international tournaments and the current Circuit events will be invited to a $1 million freeroll in Las Vegas—the 2016 WSOP International Casino Championship. On offer alongside the $1 million prize pool will be a coveted WSOP bracelet.

The news was released just 10 days after the announcement of the first WSOP event to be held in Italy at the Casino of Campione d’Italia by Lake Lugano. As well as the Morocco stop and the Italian event, the WSOP has also established an agreement with the Jubilee Casino in Monterrey, Mexico.

The deal with the Jubilee Casino involves establishing a WSOP branded poker room—the first to carry the WSOP brand outside the US, and the first not to be owned by WSOP’s parent company Caesars Entertainment.

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2015 Grand Prix Cash Race Week 7 Leaderboard

Congratulations to last week's top 20 SAP earners! Prizes will be credited to your account today.

2015 Grand Prix will run from January 12, 2015 to April 5, 2015. To join, simply play any of your favourite ring games to earn SuitedAce Points (SAP). Top 20 SAP earners will take home cash prizes every week!

For more details, visit http://www.suitedace.com/promotions/2015-grand-prix.php.

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Happy weekend everyone!

Poker Player Arrested for Assault during a Poker Tourney

A Canadian poker player who was chip leader at the final table of the Fallsview Poker Classic’s Event #1 was arrested for assault before play could finish.


Just a tip, courtesy of the Ontario Provincial Police: If you're wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, a casino might not be the best place to go.

Poker player Harnam Matharu found out the hard way last week when he was arrested during the Niagara Fallsview Casino's annual Poker Classic tournament. Even worse? He was the chip leader for a buy-in tournament Feb. 10 which had a grand prize of nearly $200,000.

Shortly after a dinner break, Matharu was led away in cuffs by the Ontario Provincial Police's Casino Enforcement Unit after another player identified him as the suspect in an assault during a Quebec poker tourney Nov. 25.

"If somebody has a warrant, or somebody's wanted for something…what they're doing at the game is irrelevant," says Casino Enforcement Unit Det. Sergeant Rick Davidson. "If he's there, we'll go grab him. It's just unfortunate timing for him."

Matharu, an unheralded 21-year-old poker player, had gotten past more than 1,190 entrants to make it to the final table of the Fallsview tourney (a preliminary contest for the World Poker Tour). But during the day, other players recognized Matharu from a tournament in Kahnawake, Que., in which Edmonton player Uri Miro was attacked outside his motel room and robbed of $5,000.

A warrant was issued for Matharu's arrest shortly after.

"Chip leader of the $1,100 at Fallsview gets arrested and taken out of the building during the final table…lol," tweeted poker player D.J. MacKinnon from Fallsview Feb. 10.

Davidson says Matharu was arrested without incident and immediately handed off to the Niagara Regional Police.

While Davidson says players have been arrested before in the middle of poker games at Fallsview, it has never happened in the finale of such a high profile tournament.

"Letting him play it out, one way or the other, is really not a consideration."

The strange part, adds Davidson, is that Matharu may have gotten a bigger pay day by getting arrested. Had he kept playing, he could have lost all or most of his winnings as the game wore on. But after he was arrested, his stack was maintained in absentia as per tournament rules. Because two other players ran out of chips before him, he claimed the $88,000 third prize.

"Ya, he could have won more, or he could have lost it all," says Davidson.

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