Last Friday, the US Department of Justice unveiled a 52-page (52? LOL) indictment against three of the biggest online poker companies providing service for Americans – PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker – and alleged that they were guilty of money laundering, along with wire and bank fraud. More »
Even if you don’t play online poker, you’ve undoubtedly seen ads for Full Tilt, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker, three of the bigger online gambling sites around. Guess what? They’ve all been charged with tricking banks into processing illegal gambling dollars. [Reuters]
Full House Poker is coming on March 16 for $US3 on Windows Phone and $US10 on Xbox Live Arcade. The cool bit is that you can actually play cross platform against 360/Windows Phone people from either device, keeping your money and experience no matter which one you use. [Joystiq]
We’ve been following Andrew Milner’s experimentations with high-tech poker tables closely over the past few years, and his latest development is the most exciting yet. Milner has created a DIY kit for a video RFID poker table, so anyone can create an awesome geeky poker experience. More »
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Lay your cards on the table or hold them on your mobile phone. Double-tap your chips to change denominations. Don’t spill anything. This student-designed Microsoft Surface poker game is, well, it’s almost as promising as Surface D&D. More »
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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 »
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 »
