Poker Downunder

There is hope for mankind after all. The computer bot Polaris was finally beaten in its challenge against 2 poker pros.

Had a few suckouts against me on Full Tilt today. But overall things are still going well. Fingers crossed.

Though I'd give all my foreign readers a quick overview of poker in Australia. Five years ago poker had a very small following in Australia. How things have changed. With the evolution of online poker and Joe Hachem winning the WSOP main event, poker has taken off downunder.

There is a huge pub poker scene with over 250,000 members, with games available at your local on most nights of the week. Crown casino in Melbourne is leading the charge for casino poker, with one of the world's best poker rooms. Online poker player numbers are growing and looking down the signup lists on most sites shows plenty of aussie's playing. With Pokerstars rolling out the APPT Asia Pacific Poker Tour the profile of Poker is sure to keep growing. The future looks bright indeed.

Lastly for those of you wanting to see more TV poker go to NBCpoker. They have the complete achieve of the "Poker after dark" series available to view over the internet. If you live outside of the US then some segments will come up unavailable but just skip to the next segment and most play without a problem.