Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Online poker software to “stalk” players

Now, an online poker software adds fun to poker playing by allowing the players to “stalk” other poker players. Don’t take it that serious though. Give it a read and know why.

A software called Player Stalker is a poker buddy list that would allow players to create a list of poker buddies and could track if they would go online (just like how instant messenger works). A player can enter the screen name, and if the player is online the software would give information like the casino and table where that certain player is. This online poker software is helpful to track friends on where they are currently playing or having their poker sessions.

Security is of no worry with this online poker software. The player being tracked is notified instantly when a player tracks him around and if their account is accessed.

An additional feature for this innovative online poker software is that a person can simply add other players and keep track of their own account through alerts via SMS messages through their mobile phones, e-mail, and other widely-used instant messaging software.

For those who are interested to give Player Stalker a try, there is an available 7-day free trial. Once the trial expires, they could subscribe to Lite Level (at $20 per month), Standard Level (at $30 per month) and Full Package with an equivalent of 150 text messages per month. Any level of this online poker software would allow unlimited number of people to stalk.

Basically, it isn’t the scary tactic type of stalking we’re talking about here. It’s the safe tracking of friends that might lead and endless fun on casino tables making sure you make the most out of your online poker playing.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

How can online gaming rise from the fall

The sudden recession and emergence of the global economic crisis has brought different industries into a decline of sales and revenues. A lot of companies have suffered losses, and left them to the choice of manpower-cutting increasing the unemployment rate.

Rising from the sudden fall is a big challenge for every affected company and one industry that has been greatly affected is online gaming. Sales have been low on software and consoles, not all patrons of their products still have the purchasing power and demands are getting low. What marketing strategy should they do? Should they decrease price and production and increase promotion? Would there be a win-win solution?

For online gaming, it has been and would be a great struggle to keep players on playing and purchasing their products. One thing that they could do is make a better version, improving the development of online games that they make. Once players would see a great improvement that they could take advantage of from the game, they would surely purchase the product to enjoy online gaming further.

Or they could take the risk of making new games from fresh ideas and the likes. They could probably take the advices or requests from avid gamers who purchase and use their products in a maximum level. From this, they could make a little transition of releasing a new game for a cheaper price before they sell the usual top-selling online games on its usual price.

Another challenge on the online gaming industry is how to lessen the cases of piracy. Piracy has brought a great impact in the loss of sales of these online games developers. Since people have lesser purchasing power, they would prefer cheaper software although it is pirated. Once piracy would lessen, online gaming companies can bounce back from the recession.There are many possible ways to rise online gaming from the economic fall. It would all depend on implementation and promotion, and who is willing to take the risk for change.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Problem Gambling: Signs and Cure

One most debatable fact in the fight to legalize online poker is the possibility of a player to get into problem gambling. Problem Gambling is an urge to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop.

Problem gambling is more feared to occur in the existence of gambling online since games like blackjack, baccarat, and poker are already made available and accessible with just a simple click.
If you, or a close family or friend, love playing online gambling games, then you should check if there are existing signs and symptoms that might lead to a serious problem gambling.

One sign is when you try to keep gambling a secret. You don’t tell anyone, not even your spouse. You secretly access through gambling sites and you make a secret bank account where you keep your bets and winnings. Another sign is once you start gambling, it is difficult to leave the poker room and your pc. You tend to gamble until the very last dollar you have, and when you lost some, you would still gamble to make up for lost bucks.

You can also detect problem gambling symptoms from family and close friends. One could probably be nearing problem gambling when he/she has been overly defensive when the topic of gambling comes out, and even though he/she wasn’t tagged would suddenly become defensive as if the comments lead to him/her. And since gambling involves money, your loved ones or close friends might be in deep trouble if they hide their finances from the people close to them, and would sometimes borrow some money.

All these signs can be prevented, and for those who are already indulged into the game of gambling can still be cured.

There are various support groups for those who experience problem gambling. One could be also sent to a therapist. Even simple gestures of cure (like separating and abstaining oneself to using and accessing the computer) can help a person recover from such disorder.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Cheats, Hacks, 3rd Party Software: Possible in Online Poker?

In every poker software, there is always a brilliant mind behind it all. From the interface to coding, each developer of an online poker software is working a step further to make their software better, hence satisfying their clients and customers.
But other “brilliant” minds are working contrary to these developers. Is hacking really possible for online poker software?

Hacking a poker software is hardly possible and remains a myth until now. There was one case of an online poker site being hacked but that was only because there was a flaw in a random number generation code. Since then, this problem has been addressed to and has been fixed. The encryption of the different poker software has been updated making it impossible for hacking.

It has also been said that there are certain sites that has cheats on it (for additional cash or to have a better hand) but it was never proven. Like hacking, cheats on online poker software is hardly possible. These software are made to have a strong protection against hacking and cheating to assure security in a player’s game play.

3rd party software, however are possible. There are certain poker bots and poker calculators that can aid a player’s game of poker but are barely harmful or can’t be called cheating. They help in strategizing and keeping records on the player’s game.However a hacker would like to invade a poker software, a good online poker software developer would always make sure that the poker software they develop is 100% hack and cheat proof.