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Over “Shot Clock” In Poker Rises Again - 9th November 2012 Although
the 2012 World Series of Poker Championship Event was one of the more exciting
final tables in quite some time, there is a new debate raging across the internet
regarding one aspect of poker that, some believe, has become a problem…the
“tanking” by players as they make a decision. This discussion has brought
out the question once again of putting a “shot clock” in place in poker
to speed the game up. Poker
player/blogger Scott Clark brought up the issue as he discussed the WSOP Championship
Event final table on Wednesday. “During the live play of the 2012 Main Event,
fans that were following the action complained about the excessive tanking by
the competitors,” Clark notes. Clark particularly targets eventual runner-up
Jesse Sylvia as the worst offender, pointing out a Tweet from poker professional
Daniel Negreanu which read, “If there was any doubt about the need for a
clock in poker, this (the Main Event play) is Exhibit A. This is painstakingly
tilting for casual viewers.” “Wouldn’t
it be cool,” Clark queries. “Doesn’t it make too much sense?”
There are several aspects that would have to be examined with the implementation
of a “shot clock” in the game, however. What
Tournaments? One
of the big questions would be what tournaments do you put the shot clock on. Does
the $40 buy in tournament at your local casino have the need for such action?
At what stakes would a shot clock be implemented for? Poker’s rules are already
different enough by locations and adding in a shot clock for tournaments would
put another layer of rules out there that would be different by what location
you play at. How
Long? Another
big question would be how long would be the time limit on the shot clock. It has
often been said that players know what they will do within fifteen seconds of
looking at their hole cards. Anything beyond that is simply “Hollywooding”
to try to get responses from your opponents or masking the fact that you were
making a move without the proper ammunition. If
a shot clock were to be implemented in poker, it would have to be long enough
to allow for complete thought while also moving the game along. While the online
standard (approximately fifteen seconds) is a bit too strict, making a decision
within two minutes shouldn’t be too much to ask for someone to come to a
conclusion. When
Do You Put The Shot Clock On? Rules
in poker go across the entirety of a tournament. With this theory in mind, if
a shot clock was placed on poker, you should have it from the start of the event
to its conclusion. When the blinds are 25/50, however, this would more than likely
be a waste of time (no pun intended). Instituting the shot clock “on the
bubble” or once the players have made the money would, in fact, change the
style of the game if the clock isn’t used from the start of the tournament. Does
The Money Matter? This
is an offshoot of the “which tournament” question. If the prize pool
is only a few thousand dollars, would the shot clock have less time (or even be
used)? If, for example, we’re talking about the WSOP Championship Event,
wouldn’t you want to give some time to a player making a multi-million dollar
decision? Don’t
We Already Have A Clock? In
theory, the shot clock is already in place in the game of poker. It is something
that is anathema for most poker players, however (remember how Tiffany Michelle
still gets derision for her usage of it in the WSOP Championship Event a few years
ago), because of its “nitty” appearance. There are also different thoughts
as to individual poker players as to how long is “too long.” Clark
believes a shot clock is not a bad idea for the game of poker. A two minute clock,
used at the final table, might be the best situation but, as Clark also states,
there are few ideas on how to institute it. “At the very least,” Clark
concludes on his blog, “players should move the game along out of respect
to your fellow players.” (Poker News
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Online
poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible
for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. In 2005, revenues
from online poker were estimated at US$ 200 million per month. Online
venues, by contrast, are dramatically cheaper because they have much smaller overhead
costs. For example, adding another table does not take up valuable space like
it would for a brick and mortar casino. Online poker rooms also allow the players
to play for low stakes (as low as 2¢) and often offer poker freeroll tournaments
(where there is no entry fee), attracting beginners. Free
poker online was played as early as the late 1990s in the form of IRC poker. Planet
Poker was the first online cardroom to offer real money games. The first real
money poker game was dealt on January 1, 1998. Author Mike Caro became the "face"
of Planet Poker in October 1999. The
major online poker sites offer varying features to entice new players. One common
feature is to offer tournaments called satellites by which the winners gain entry
to real-life poker tournaments. It was through one such tournament on PokerStars
that Chris Moneymaker won his entry to the 2003 World
Series of Poker. He went on to win the main event causing shock in the poker
world. The 2004 World Series featured three times as many players as in 2003.
At least four players in the WSOP final table won their entry through an online
cardroom. Like Moneymaker, 2004 winner Greg "Fossilman" Raymer also
won his entry at the PokerStars online cardroom. In
October 2004, Sportingbet Plc, at the time the world's largest publicly traded
online gaming company (SBT.L), announced the acquisition of ParadisePoker.com,
one of the online poker industry's first and largest cardrooms. The $340 million
dollar acquisition marked the first time an online cardroom was owned by a public
company. Since then, several other cardroom parent companies have gone public. In
June 2005, PartyGaming, the parent company of the then largest online cardroom,
PartyPoker,
went public on the London Stock Exchange, achieving an initial public offering
market value in excess of $8 billion dollars. At the time of the IPO, ninety-two
percent of Party
Gaming's income came from poker operations. The
market appears to be currently in a consolidation phase. In early 2006, PartyGaming
moved to acquire EmpirePoker.com from Empire Online. Later in the year, bwin,
an Austrian based online gambling company, acquired PokerRoom.com. Other poker
rooms such as PokerStars
and Poker.com that were rumored to be exploring initial public offerings have
postponed them. As
of March 2008, there are fewer than forty stand-alone cardrooms and poker networks
with detectable levels of traffic. There are more than 600 independent doorways
into the group of network sites. (Credit: Wikipedia).
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