Texas Hold-em for Dummies
Texas Hold-em for Dummies, by avid poker player Mark “The Red” Harlan, provides a general overview of the game, including all of the rules and strategies, and covers specifics about betting, blinds, and etiquette. Harlan stresses the importance of your bankroll and provides suggestions on bankroll sizes. He also explains the difference between no-limit and limit play. For beginners, Texas Hold-em lingo may seem confusing; this book clearly explains terms like hole cards, the flop, the turn, and the river. He also covers where to play—in casinos and professional card rooms, and on the Internet. After covering the basics, Harlan provides tips on advanced strategies like bluffing and trapping, and he dedicates an entire chapter to game theory, the study of strategies for how to win a game. The handy “cheat sheet” includes a chart of playable hands by position in Limit Hold’em, questions readers should ask themselves before they play, and a list of quick bluffing tips. Also included are a set of online poker abbreviations, poker etiquette tips, and a rundown of rough odds. This poker book includes a glossary where you’ll find definitions to poker terms and phrases like “double gut-shot straight” and “steal the blinds.” Prepare for poker night with Texas Hold-em for Dummies!
Densitron’s DPX-117—First Dual-Core Gaming Board
The new DPX-117 is the first industrial computer board to offer today’s latest dual-core CPU technology on a board specifically designed for the gaming industry. The DPX-117 supports IntelÆ Core™ Duo and Core™ 2 Duo CPUs which have quickly dominated the mobile computing industry with revolutionary performance and groundbreaking power efficiency. Dual-core technology offers a host of performance and security advances for gaming developers: multi-tasking; Intel dual-core technology; multi-threaded applications; two physical processing units; and dual-core technology together with virtualization technology. For example, allowing secure partitioning of software applications, running dual operating systems on one board, critical applications like IO, COMs services, and system updates can run in the background without slowing down the systems’ graphics performance. CPU performance on the DPX-117 is complemented by a range of PCI-Express graphics processor offerings, including state of the art GPU’s from ATI and Nvidia. Chipsets and CPUs featured on Intel’s embedded roadmap allow for five-year minimum lifecycle and enable the gaming OEM to choose with confidence. The DPX-117 will be on display at the upcoming ICE tradeshow in London, January 23-25, at Densitron Gaming’s stand (number 3424). For more information, visit Densitron’s new website www.densitrongaming.com.
Mosquito Ultrasonic Teenager Deterrent Device
North American Video and a premier provider to the gaming industry has announced the signing of a distributor agreement with Kids Be Gone, the North American importer of the Mosquito Ultrasonic Teenager Deterrent Device by UK manufacturer Compound™ Security Systems. “North American Video is known for providing leading edge technology solutions, and we are very pleased to have the Mosquito Ultrasonic Teenager Deterrent Device in our product line up,” Director, Product Development at North American Video, Ron Freschi said. “The Mosquito device has been highly acclaimed overseas and through our distribution channel, we expect to achieve similar results in America.” The Mosquito MK II M85 is a non-invasive ultrasonic device that has been specifically designed to disperse groups of teenagers who may be loitering in areas where they could prove to be a nuisance. The device produces a signal that is audible only to teenagers. Although the sound is not painful, it does become highly irritating after five to ten minutes exposure, and teenagers tend to leave the immediate area. Because of natural hearing loss, those over 30 years of age will be unaware of the noise. The system, which has an effective range of about 50 feet, is totally safe even after prolonged exposure. For more information, e-mail info@navcctv.com, call 1-800-714-0717, or visit www.navcctv.com.