MacPoker Pro 1.23

The latest release is here!.

It looks like these are the changes:
- Tourney calculation fixes
- “Payer has left the table” fixes

Check out The Poker Mac Forums as more info comes in from folks trying out the new version.

James McManus - Intimidating Bets, and the All-In Equalizer

The young studs of poker no longer play very much stud. The five-card and seven-card versions of that game are played with predetermined bet sizes; along with five-card draw, they were the most popular forms of poker until 20 or 30 years ago. Today the flop games have taken over: pot-limit Omaha; limit, pot-limit and no-limit hold’em; and, most of all, no-limit hold’em tournaments.

Who’s winning the long green these days? In tournaments, at least, about 100 men and half a dozen women have been dramatically more successful than the average player. Most of these players are younger than 35, much like the people who dominate physical sports. John Phan, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Michael Gracz, Erick Lindgren and others play many more hands than most folks, and they play them more fearlessly.

Full story at The New York Times

Tiger OS X 10.4.3 Released

Get it via software update or check it out in this knowledge base article.

It includes fixes for:
- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network and file services
- AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
- disc recording when creating and burning media
- .Mac sync services
- Spotlight indexing and searching
- Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
- Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
- Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
- compatibility with third party applications and devices
- previous standalone security updates