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Next Gen HUD Turns Player Statistics into Pilot Dials Right at the Table
New ProPokerHUD launching new premium HUDs that can replace the normal numbers of player data with graphical displays.
- ProPokerHUDs has taken an Innovative approach to Head Up Displays (HUD) by implementing the graphical display of online poker statistics into ist product.
- Top online tournament player “spacegravy” wanted his own bespoke HUD, but after it was written, decided to set up a company to make it available to a wider audience.
- The use of graphics provides the biggest difference compared to existing HUDs, enabling beginners to get up to speed more quickly, and giving grinders faster information processing.
Pennsylvania State Senate Agrees to Study Viability of Online Gaming
Senate support for a study into the viability of gaming in Pennsylvania bodes well for legalized online gaming.
- Senate Resolution 273 in Pennsylvania gathered almost unanimous support as Senators across political parties agreed “to study the current condition and future viability of gaming in this Commonwealth.”
- Forty-seven of the 50 state senators voted for the measure with only one dissenting vote.
- Back in June, House Committee on Gaming Oversight Chair, Tina Pickett, said that legislators would wait to see how the new online gaming laws affect land based casinos before considering their own internet gambling bill.
- The bill was introduced as a result of concern that state gaming revenues have declined in the face of competition from neighboring states.
Problem Gambling Behavior in Rats Reduced by Medication
British Columbia researchers used a rat casino to promote and then treat problem gambling behavior.
- Experiments carried out at the University of British Columbia are the first to show that problem gambling behaviors can be treated with drugs.
- Rats in a specially designed casino exhibited problem gambling behaviors and following treatment with a dopamine D4 receptor-blocking medication, the problem behaviors were reduced.
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