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1 PARSING POKER t h e d i g i t a l m e d i a t i o n o f a g a m e n a t a s h a dow s c h ü l l

2 GAME FORMAT GAME EXPERIENCE

3 EXCITEMENT ABSORPTION

4 + L I V E POKER

5 + L I V E POKER social slow house makes little $ untracked

6 + L I V E POKER social slow house makes little $ untracked + V I DEO POKER asocial fast house makes $$$ tracked

7 + V I DEO POKER asocial fast house makes $$$ tracked

8 + V I DEO POKER asocial fast house makes $$$ tracked I used to play poker, live poker, with people. I was good. I could win. But machine poker isn t about winning.

9 + V I DEO POKER asocial fast house makes $$$ tracked

10 + LIVE POKER + V I DEO POKER + ONLINE VIDEO POKER asocial fast free yet websites make $$ tracked

11 + LIVE POKER + V I DEO POKER + ONLINE VIDEO POKER + ONLINE TABLE POKER 1998: first real-money poker game 2008: revenue = $6 billion 2011: Black Friday, movement to Canada

12 + M ULT I - TA B LING

13 + M ULT I - TA B LING When you re playing in real life, you re playing every hand the best you can. Online, you re weighing optimal play per hand against the optimal number of hands you can play in time.

14 + M ULT I - TA B LING

15 + R A PID DECISION MAKING

16 + POKER TRACKING SOFTWARE

17 + HEADS-UP DISPLAY (HUD) The numbers in the display tell you, This player has certain tendencies, and you can take that information into account right before you make a decision about a hand. You trust the information more than your own memory. You feel more comfortable taking action, and doing it faster. The numbers make the whole decision-making process easier, less agonizing it becomes much more of a binary, yes/no process.

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19 + POP-UP STATISTICS Behind every stat is another set of stats. It can be very useful to commit one afternoon to customizing these pop-up screens until they show the information you want them to show. Make sure that only the helpful information per statistic is shown. Especially when playing numerous tables it can be very important to quickly find the information you are looking for you will need to invest some time to optimize the pop-ups to make them more efficient and save yourself time when having to make a decision. PokerUtilities.com

20 + COLOR-CODING Certain stats are indicators of what to do in certain situations. So if I look at the HUD and see that they re all green, I know I should play aggressively.

21 + SELF-TRACKING You never know for sure if they are tracking you, so before assuming that, I try to gauge what information they might have on me. I do this by looking at their behavior toward me and also at the speed of their play against me. Based on that, I can guess how aware they are of how I typically behave, and can adjust my behavior accordingly.

22 + POST- SESSION SIMULATIONS In the moment, the right decision is not clear, but in the aggregate you can see how it makes sense to act; certain things come up over and over again and start to make sense.

23 A lot of novice players get impatient and make the mistake of overvaluing their data they get biased by short-term information and ultimately make poorer decisions. You have to have a lot of data points for anything you detect to be statistically significant otherwise you can t confidently conclude that a pattern is

24 + M A NAGING TILT

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26 If everyone uses these stats and uses them correctly, then there will be no room left to have an edge because everyone will have the same information, like we re all bots playing each other.

27 + L I V E POKER Tracking APPS for live poker + V I DEO POKER + ONLINE VIDEO POKER + ONLINE TABLE POKER + M ECHANIZED TABLE POKER

28 I can play in privacy on their own screen without having to worry about other players. The social aspect of player interaction didn t happen at all like it does at a live table.

29 + LIVE POKER social slow house makes little $ untracked + V I DEO POKER asocial fast house makes $$$ tracked + ONLINE VIDEO POKER asocial fast free yet websites make $$ tracked + ONLINE TABLE POKER asocial & social (bluffing is digitally mediated) super fast websites profit from volume tracked + M ECHANIZED TABLE POKER social & asocial (interaction with people & screens) slow & fast house makes $$ tracked & untracked

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31 Can be an educational tool for players to accept the technology... a very good catalyst for us to transfer people from tables to machines The player will be weaned over time to video screens