December 2nd, 2011

Aces Hangout Is Bringing Live, Face-to-Face Poker To Google+ Hangouts

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Aces Hangout is a new, in development product from the team at Hettema&Bergsten, which you may remember as the makers of the Twitter trend tracker, StrawberryJ.am. The online application brings a unique twist to online gambling, thanks to its integration with Google+’s multi-person video chat feature, Google+ Hangouts.

Unlike other video poker games, where users often play as online avatars, Aces Hangout feels more like a real world card game. You can watch live video feeds of the other players in Google+’s Hangouts, allowing to you to guess at who’s bluffing and who’s not – something that’s key to the offline poker experience. → Read More

June 21st, 2010

Jason Calacanis' Poker Face

In our ongoing coverage of the life and times of Jason Calacanis, the video below is instructive on many levels. Calacanis—who is an Internet entrepreneur (the CEO of Mahalo), conference organizer (our former partner in TechCrunch50), and Web celeb—loves to play high stakes poker.

In fact, this week he will be one of the players on The Big Game, airing on Fox, in which businessmen are paired up with pros. In the clip below, Calacanis loses a $204,400 pot to ten-time World Series Of Poker champion Doyle Brunson, who beats his two kings with three sixes. Brunson was ran the river card three times, and won each time.The look of disbelief on Calacanis’ face at the end is priceless. “It looks like the Internet millionaire just had a server crash,” intones one of the commentators. And before that, “Jason is not a very experienced player.” Ouch. → Read More

February 17th, 2010

Poker.org sold for $1 Million, Most Ever For .org Domain

Sedo, a domain marketplace, has brokered the largest sale of a .org domain to date. Brokered on behalf of National A-1 Advertising, the domain poker.org was sold to PokerCompany.com for the sum of $1 Million. Prior to the sale of poker.org, the highest .org sale was $198,000 for engineering.org, followed by sexe.org which sold for $151,400. The sale price for poker.org is smaller than those of some of the largest .com sales, which rang in at $5.1 million for Toys.com, and $3 Million for the candy.com sale. → Read More

September 29th, 2009

Use a guitar controller to play poker

Bored? Lazy? Trendy? All of the above? You can turn a run-of-the-mill Guitar Hero or Rock Band controller into a weapon used for checking, folding, calling, raising, lowering, and more – YES! You can play online poker with a guitar controller! Finally! → Read More

May 19th, 2007

Sexual Innuendo And Poker Chips

I do my best not to post actual commercials on CG, but it’s the weekend and this commercial is very silly. I’ve gotten a chance to use the product, The Original Poker Chip Customizer, a bit since the last time I wrote about it and it’s quite nice. And at $60 for the deluxe set, it’s reasonably priced as far as I can tell. → Read More

May 9th, 2007

Orignal Poker Chip Customizer: Liquor Up Front, Poker In The Rear

If you play a lot of poker and want to turn your basement into a personal, private casino for your high-rollin’ friends, you’ll want to pick up the The Original Poker Chip Customizer. For $29.95, you get some software for designing your custom logo (with templates or from scratch), high-quality glossy labels and a label-placement jig (in case you’ve got yourself a case of the shakes or, you know, want to apply them perfectly). The company also sells extra labels and chips in case you don’t have your own. Then there’s the deluxe edition. Hit the jump for details on that sweet set for the non-poker-chip-havin’ people. (Makes the perfect gift!) → Read More

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