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		<title>$10k Poker Challenge: Boku87</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The $10,000 Challenge was a Prop Bet set up by Boku87, who took $30,000 in bets, saying he could turn $100 into $10,000 in 15 days playing only Sit and Goes on PokerStars.com. This event sparked massive threads through forums such as TwoPlusTwo and PocketFives. I remember everybody claiming it was either a scam, or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://10kpropbet.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The $10,000 Challenge</a> was a Prop Bet set up by Boku87, who took $30,000 in bets, saying he could turn $100 into $10,000 in 15 days playing only Sit and Goes on <a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/?source=10144988" target="_blank">PokerStars.com</a>. This event sparked massive threads through forums such as TwoPlusTwo and PocketFives. I remember everybody claiming it was either a scam, or that Boku87 was an &#8220;idiot&#8221; if he actually thought he could accomplish this. Insults were flying every which way throughout the poker communities, and on March 3rd, 2009,  the challenge was on and the rules were set.</p>
<h5>Rules for 100$ into 10000$ in 15 days<br />
1. I have 15 days from starting point meaning 360 hour. Starting point will be 3rd March 1:00 p.m. Central european time. So it will end 18th March 12:59 p.m.<br />
2. I can only play Sngs with a maximum buy in of 16$<br />
3. 180man or 90man do not count<br />
4. If I go broke at any point I lost the bet<br />
5. Profit only, Rakeback and Bonus, player transfers or BoP cashes do not count</h5>
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<h5>6. I will have to run a webcam when I play. You can see it at www.justin.tv/Boku87<br />
7. I won the bet as soon as I reached a 10000$ bankroll meaning I made 9900$ in Profit. Progress can be tracked with sharkscope<br />
8. Money must be sent before the bet starts to the Pokerstars escrow account P5contest (Isle of men)<br />
9. I get 3-1 odds so for every 100$ from me I will get 300$ from you.<br />
10. I will bet up to 30K to your 90K<br />
11. People who bet against me are not allowed to play at my tables unless it is their regular limits to create a realistic atmosphere for micro stakes playing.(12)  There is one thing left . Though it did not happen i</h5>
<h5>n 15 month I once disconnected completly for an hour or so and blinded of at every single Sng I played which cost me about 2200$. So I want an extra rule for this bet ONLY for the first 2 days that if I disconnect for longer than 20 minutes for reasons that are not my fault I will get a refund of all tournaments that I blinded off where I had &gt; 1200 chips . I won&#8217;t make any profit of this, its just to make sure that I don&#8217;t start my first session and disconnect and lose 70% of my roll the first day.</p>
<p>13. If I do not get enough action on this ( minimum 30K$) I will postpone the start till I have enough action.<br />
I will post daily updates in this blog</h5>
<p>On the first day alone, Boku had played over 500 sng&#8217;s and had made over $300 in profit. Boku eventually went on to accomplish this amazing feat, in just 14 days. You can <a href="http://10kpropbet.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">click here</a> to visit his blog which covered the entire event. Or, if you wish to try your luck at PokerStars Sit and Goes, click <a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/?source=10144988" target="_blank">HERE!</a></p>
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		<title>Texas Hold&#8217;em Poker: Skill or Luck?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cigital, Inc. conducted a recent study which analyzed over 100 million poker hands which were played out on PokerStars.com. The study showed that about 75% of hands which were played never made it to showdown, which is the completion of the last round of betting. The study also showed that 50% of the hands that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cigital, Inc. conducted a recent study which analyzed over 100 million poker hands which were played out on <a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/?source=10144988" target="_blank">PokerStars.com</a>. The study showed that about 75% of hands which were played never made it to showdown, which is the completion of the last round of betting. The study also showed that 50% of the hands that won at showdown, were not the best hands on the table. In order for them to have won with a worse,  someone had to have folded the better hand. This is what many are claiming to be as proof that poker is a game of skill. The best hand only won 12% of the time, therefore, players more skilled must have won the other 88%  of pots using skills such as betting techniques. Well, this all makes sense to me!</p>
<p>Former three-term Senator from New York and current <a class="alinks_links" style="background: transparent url(http://www.pokersource.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) no-repeat scroll right center; padding-right: 13px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" title="Poker Players Alliance" onclick="return alinks_click(this);" rel="external" href="http://pokerplayersalliance.org/">Poker Players Alliance</a> (PPA) Chairman Alfonse D&#8217;Amato commented, “As a poker player, I can tell you that knowing when to hold or fold is not based solely on the cards that are dealt, but a series of decisions based on skill and the actions taken by other players. This study provides the raw data to back up the compelling arguments made by poker players around the world that it’s skill, not pure luck, that determines the outcome of this game.”</p>
<p>Once again, we as poker players know this to be true. As Phil Hellmuth might say, we got our Jackals, Mice, Elephants, and Lions. Once you get to a certain level of thnking and playing, you begin to play your opponents, and your cards begin to have less and less of a impact on your decision making.</p>
<p>The data this study has accumulated has been used in many poker legal battles, and will continue to be used in many more in the future.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/poker-showdown-between-luck-and-skill-649/" target="_blank"><strong>Wall Street Journal</strong></a> writer Carl Bialik authored a blog on the study, outlining many of the doubts its opponents had. Among them were “players’ decisions are determined by the cards they draw, which is entirely a matter of luck.” In addition, the relationship between Cigital and PokerStars was questioned and individual players were not tracked to see if they experienced success over time. Finally, “the study doesn’t answer the question of how showdowns and best-hand wins would look in a game of pure skill, or of pure chance.”</p>
<p>I guess the world of poker, especially online poker, is always going to have its critics and skeptics. Maybe one day they will pull their head out of their a$$ and actually try to experience the game for themselves. Maybe they just dont have the mental capacity to think on such a dynamic level, or maybe they lost their luch money in a game of poker to their cousin Rooney when they were 9 years old, and still havnt recovered. Who knows what dark secrets are keeping them from allowing this beautiful game to flourish, as it should be. All we can do is continue to conduct studies such as this, and continue learning as much as we can about this wonderful game. The skeptics will fall, its a matter of time. The skeptics will fall&#8230;</p>
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