poker
Gadgets
9:30AM Nick Broughall
Remember that DIY RFID Poker table that Aussie geek Andrew Milner created last year? Well, turns out it wasn’t quite good enough. So he’s gone back to basics and created the Hold ‘Em-1000 Virtual Poker Table, a touchscreen enabled custom poker table that not only does away with the need for a dealer, cards and chips, but is also actually available to buy as well. More »
Touchscreen Virtual Poker Table Is A Tech Royal Flush
9:30AM Nick Broughall 
Design
1:30PM Nick Broughall | It may not look it, but the poker table you see in the image above is a high-tech marvel of DIY electronics. Built over the course of about three months and costing about seven grand to make, Andrew Milner’s poker table includes wireless RFID technology inside, RFID tags on a deck of cards, some HD cameras and some self-coded software to output a professional, automated HD video stream of a Texas Hold’em game that can be broadcast either to a TV in his house or over the internet. While having RFID tags on all the cards may sound like an unwieldy solution, the chips are flexible and thin, and don’t effect the shuffling or handling of the cards in any way.
We’ve got a video of the table in action after the jump, as well as a brief interview with Andrew himself. More »
Aussie DIY Poker Table Uses RFID To Let You Watch The Action In HD
1:30PM Nick Broughall | It may not look it, but the poker table you see in the image above is a high-tech marvel of DIY electronics. Built over the course of about three months and costing about seven grand to make, Andrew Milner’s poker table includes wireless RFID technology inside, RFID tags on a deck of cards, some HD cameras and some self-coded software to output a professional, automated HD video stream of a Texas Hold’em game that can be broadcast either to a TV in his house or over the internet. While having RFID tags on all the cards may sound like an unwieldy solution, the chips are flexible and thin, and don’t effect the shuffling or handling of the cards in any way.
We’ve got a video of the table in action after the jump, as well as a brief interview with Andrew himself. More »
Robots
Poker Bot Knows When to Hold ‘Em, Knows When to Fold ‘Em
9:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Looks like the day when we all hang out with robots that smoke cigars, throw back drinks and win all our money in poker is edging closer, now that programmers at the University of Alberta have created a Hold ‘Em-playing software that can beat poker professionals. The Polaris software was pitted against Poker pros like Nick Grudzien and Ijay Palansky in six games of limit Texas Hold ‘Em–it tied on one, lost two and won three. More »
Design
Touchscreen Poker Table Antes Up to US$30K
6:20AM Sean Fallon | Everyone knows that the casino with the most flash often gets the most business. So, if you are looking to take a few dollars out of your friends’ paychecks on Saturday night, lure them over with the X10 Ten Player Automated Poker Table. It features 10 12.1-inch touchscreens for the players and a 27-inch LCD in the centre of the table that handles community cards and chip amounts for the entire table. More »
Peripherals
USB Poker Chips, Go “All In” with the Gambling Addiction
1:30AM Mark Wilson | Do you love poker? Is your favourite channel The Poker Channel The Travel Channel? Are you wearing sunglasses right now so your co-workers can’t tell if you’re looking at the screen or the sticky note right beside the computer screen? Will you avoid showering for a week just to test your skin’s resistance to bacteria for marathon poker sessions? More »
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