Month:January 2017
Is PokerStars “The Deal” a zero-sum game?
In reality, the short answer to this question is no, “The Deal” is not a z… Read more
Does PokerStars manually control when the Big Deal jackpot is won?
(Update: the jackpot as of 12:30 GMT Friday, January 27 is now over $470,000. Given that there now have been roughly 21.8 million losing entries, if the odds of the hitting the jackpot are truly 1 in 5,197,920, meaning that the jackpot wheel is fair, neither predetermined or unevenly weighted, we should have expected the jackpot to be hit 4 times by now. S… Read more
The expected value of playing The Deal at PokerStars
“The Deal” is a recently released promotion from PokerStars that allows … Read more
Socket.io 1.4 to 1.7.2 temporary fix for #2405: Server socket id doesn’t match client’s socket id
If you’re affected by the major change outlined by this reported issue here’s a temporary fix you may want to try to get things working again without having to change all of your own code:
find . -name "socket.io.js" -exec sed -i -e 's/socket\.id \= self\.engine\.id;/socket\.id \= socket\.nsp \+ "\#" \+ self\.engine\.… Read more