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#11
10-12-2006, 12:24 AM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I am especially interested in this line: In the near future, 888.com plans to launch new Money Play games that will be legal under the new legislation. Wonder what they have up their sleeve??? [/ QUOTE ] Party Poker has said something similar (new offerings coming for US players) Is online backgammon for money illegal? How about chess? [/ QUOTE ] My strong suspicion is it will be something like this: SKILL-BASED POKER [/ QUOTE ] duplicate poker...the most ridiculous concept ive ever seen. 
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#12
10-12-2006, 01:14 AM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
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who is to say, until its online and available, your guess is as good as mine [/ QUOTE ] this belongs in the speculation forum....oh there isn't one? well there should be, it would be packed.
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#14
10-12-2006, 03:15 PM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I am especially interested in this line: In the near future, 888.com plans to launch new Money Play games that will be legal under the new legislation. Wonder what they have up their sleeve??? [/ QUOTE ] Party Poker has said something similar (new offerings coming for US players) Is online backgammon for money illegal? How about chess? [/ QUOTE ] My strong suspicion is it will be something like this: SKILL-BASED POKER [/ QUOTE ] duplicate poker...the most ridiculous concept ive ever seen. [/ QUOTE ] It seems kind of cool to me. It's like the 'beat sherlock holmes' feature on TTH, where you both get dealt the same 150 hands and your goal is to make more money playing the same cards. It's nothing like regular poker, but it could be fun to mess around with.
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#15
10-12-2006, 03:35 PM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I am especially interested in this line: In the near future, 888.com plans to launch new Money Play games that will be legal under the new legislation. Wonder what they have up their sleeve??? [/ QUOTE ] Party Poker has said something similar (new offerings coming for US players) Is online backgammon for money illegal? How about chess? [/ QUOTE ] My strong suspicion is it will be something like this: SKILL-BASED POKER [/ QUOTE ] duplicate poker...the most ridiculous concept ive ever seen. [/ QUOTE ] It seems kind of cool to me. It's like the 'beat sherlock holmes' feature on TTH, where you both get dealt the same 150 hands and your goal is to make more money playing the same cards. It's nothing like regular poker, but it could be fun to mess around with. [/ QUOTE ] I felt that the "skill based poker" spoke of above was no more skill based than what we play normally.
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#16
10-12-2006, 03:40 PM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
donger,
Actually from the link C_R gave, you are in a group of 4 tables in duplicate poker, which apparently seeks to use the fantasy sports exemption by basing payouts on statistical performance (beginning and ending chip counts) after the hand is over. So you are in a limit game utg and you and your 3 same seat partners on the other tables get dealt 72o. Naturally you prudently fold as do 2 others. But the lag on the 4th table raises it and caps when reraised. The flop comes KT8r and he bets out and caps again. Same when a 2 comes on the turn, and again when a 2 comes on the river. So lag shows down his runner runner board set and beats AK, which means you and 2 other players dump to him. How fun can that be? Or even if you all held AA, just because someone else has players on his table more willing to lose more to an overpair, how is that skill and thus fun?
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#17
10-12-2006, 03:45 PM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
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donger, Actually from the link C_R gave, you are in a group of 4 tables in duplicate poker, which apparently seeks to use the fantasy sports exemption by basing payouts on statistical performance (beginning and ending chip counts) after the hand is over. So you are in a limit game utg and you and your 3 same seat partners on the other tables get dealt 72o. Naturally you prudently fold as do 2 others. But the lag on the 4th table raises it and caps when reraised. The flop comes KT8r and he bets out and caps again. Same when a 2 comes on the turn, and again when a 2 comes on the river. So lag shows down his runner runner board set and beats AK, which means you and 2 other players dump to him. How fun can that be? Or even if you all held AA, just because someone else has players on his table more willing to lose more to an overpair, how is that skill and thus fun? [/ QUOTE ] I predict that Duplicate Poker is the Game of the Future. In at least 3 parallel Universes. But not this one. PairTheBoard
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#18
10-12-2006, 03:51 PM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
Duplicate Poker!!!!!!
I don't think so!
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#19
10-12-2006, 03:56 PM
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Re: 888.com/Pacific Poker has something up their sleeve
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Duplicate Poker!!!!!! I don't think so! [/ QUOTE ] I won $2.00 in one of their freerolls but I really didn't enjoy it all. The play is slow and I found myself going all-in with trash hands on the assumption that everyone else who got the same hand probably folded. I really don't like it and have yet to spend the $2.00 on a real money game.
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