How Does PokerStars Protect Players From Cheats?

James Hartigan interviews Steve Winter, Pokerstars Director of Game Integrity, and Bryan Taylor, Senior Game Integrity Product Manager on how Pokerstars protects players from cheating including collusion and computer bots. They explain cheating is relatively small on Pokerstars but is taken very seriously and employs a team of 80 people to monitor the integrity of their online poker games.

Watch the video below to learn more on some of the measures that PokerStars puts in place to protect the games at its online poker tables.

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Pokerstars To Launch Sports Betting and Table Games Globally

Initially Pokerstars will roll out Blackjack and Roulette games beginning this month on a market-by-market basis with completion expected by the end of 2014.

In 2015 Pokerstars also plans to add Sports Betting and other popular Casino Games, including full-featured mobile and web offerings.

Pokerstars recognizes that some poker players may prefer a poker only environment and will enable players to remove the additional games from their software client view and will also be able to opt out of direct marketing and promotions of the casino games.

Pokerstars full press release here (pdf format)

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Joe Rogan Interviews Isaac Haxton


Fantastic interview with Isaac Haxton - 2hrs 58mins.

Isaac "Ike" Haxton is a professional poker player and one of the best No-Limit Hold 'Em players in the world. With Joe, Ike discusses a large range of subjects including his college days, how he got in to poker, differences between live and online poker, live poker tells, body language, the current state of online poker in the U.S, Malta, Vegas, Macau, Monte Carlo and much more.

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Tournament Strategy with Daniel Negreanu

Balance Versus Adaptability - During the 2014 World Series of Poker Daniel Negreanu, the all-time money leader of in the game with over $29.6 million in earnings took to twitter to share some poker strategy advice. When someone has a record like his and is giving out tips, we recommend listening. The tweet read: "Poker tip: being adaptive and balancing your play are both important, but in tourney poker being ADAPTIVE trumps balance. Always exploit!".

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Joe Hachem's reaction to Daniel Colman's One Drop stance

The 2005 Main Event Champion Joe Hachem talks about his interview earlier this year which sparked a dialogue about the new vs old school and also about his reaction to Daniel Colman.

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Gus Hansen answers viewers questions

The Great Dane, Mr. Gus Hansen himself for a LIVE Hangout along with Sarah Grant and GPI's Eric Danis.

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PLO8 Tournament Strategy With Bart Hanson

Bart Hanson shares some short-stack strategy for PLO8 tournaments during break of WSOP 2014 Event #54: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low.

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Jason Somerville, Sarah Grant and Daniel Negreanu Threesome

Sarah Grant catches up with Daniel Negreanu and Jason Somerville to see who is now the teacher and who is the student.

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Poker Strategy With Olivier Busquet On Reasons To Bet

WPT champion and high-stakes heads-up sit'n'go specialist Olivier Busquet discusses reasons for betting in poker. ie. Betting for value, betting as a bluff, and why betting for information is a less compelling reason to bet in poker.

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Justin Bonomo Wins His First Bracelet In 2014 WSOP

Justin Bonomo topped a field of 1,587 in the 2014 World Series of Poker $1,500 six-max no-limit hold'em event, earning his gold bracelet and the $449,980 first-place prize. Just days earlier the 28-year-old took second in the $10,000 triple draw lowball event, falling short of his first career bracelet for the third time. Here he describes his experience making it back to heads-up for the fourth time, and the wild ride he experienced in this event.

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