What's going on with Poker??

What is going on in the Poker world? Since I last had a post, Norway's Annette 'Annette_15' Obrestad became both the youngest person to ever win a World Series bracelet and the first woman to ever win a WSOP Main Event title when she finished atop a field of 362 entrants in the first-ever World Series of Poker Europe £10,000 Main Event tournament. This girl just turned 19 and can't even go to Las Vegas next year to play in the World Series of Poker because she will be too young!! She had already set the online Poker World on it's ear and now she shows that she can do it at the live tables.

The 2+2 forums are abuzz over possible cheating at highstakes games at Absolute Poker. There are several super long posts about it, inlcuding this one. There are a lot of people pointing fingers at Mark Seif, although I think it is quite absurb that he would be capable of this. Mark Seif (born October 4, 1967) is an American attorney and poker player from Lake Tahoe, California. That is not the pedigree of a computer Hacker. It is stuff like this that I stay away from 2 + 2. They may be a great site for helping you with your game but they have way too many conspiracy theorists and will rip you a new one if you ask a poker question they deem 'stupid'.

Poker Tracker was hacked and temporarily disabled. This story is from Kick Ass Poker Blog. Users of the popular performance-tracking software PokerTracker were dismayed late in the week to discover that the site had been compromised, resulting in its quickly being taken offline by the software's owner/developers.

Since a lot of users have their PokerTracker software set to retrieve updates automatically, the question then arose as to whether the software was somehow auto-installing a virus that would compromise users' own sensitive information. The answer to that, at least, seemed to be no --- while at least one 2+2 poster reported that a patch obtained from PT might have contained a virus, the problem seemed to be that the PT site itself was hacked, resulting in the software hanging while it searched for updates that could not be retrieved.

PokerTracker arranged with another third-party software maker to have its install files temporarily hosted their while its own site's issues are resolved. PokerTracker is expected to be online as normal sometime during the coming week.

Finally, my Michigan Wolverines won their first game of the year and looked good doing it with their Freshman quarterback. Let's see if they are contenders or pretenders as Penn State comes to The Big House to face the Wolverines this Saturday.
GO BLUE!!