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Tencent Shuts Poker Platform Amid Widening Gaming Crackdown (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the crazy-crackdown dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Tencent Holdings will shut a popular Texas Hold'Em poker video game, the Chinese tech giant said to its users on Monday, in a further step to comply with intensifying government scrutiny hitting the country's gaming industry. Tencent said it would formally begin to shutter "Everyday Texas Hold'Em" from Monday and would closer the game's server from Sept 25. Tencent would compensate users in accordance with regulations of Ministry of Culture. The Shenzhen-based company, which draws a huge amount of its profit from gaming, is facing mounting challenges this year from stringent regulation and government censorship. It has had to pull one blockbuster game and seen others censured.

14 comments

  1. Texas Hold Em is obsolete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thanks to Libratus poker AI (and programs begotten from its techniques) having broken the game of Poker by playing at superhuman levels.

    In before that one guy who refuses to believe AI is no more capable of intelligence than a nematode.

    1. Re:Texas Hold Em is obsolete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So how exactly is an AI supposed to bluff? How does it see the twitch in your eyes?

      That's good and all, but how much did you lose?

    2. Re:Texas Hold Em is obsolete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The algorithm doesn't interpret video or sound, it doesn't need to. It plays with mathematical optimality, and if a human makes mistakes, and they will, the computer will statistically win over time.

    3. Re:Texas Hold Em is obsolete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But how much did you lose?

  2. get gambling lisecne and continue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    get gambling lisecne and continue, just means no lil kids guess they want to do t with lil kids or no game...after all ea is fghtng it and they love gambling for kids

  3. RIP Terry Davis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    C.I.A. N I G G E R S at HAARP using their megawatt HF neuro-transponder in a vile effort to effect the rise of the Antichrist and to erase the world's remaining 1.44MB floppy disks.

  4. You've got to... by bugs2squash · · Score: 1

    know when to walk away, know when to run...

    --
    Nullius in verba
  5. Culture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just create beautiful, contemporary and historical 3D and VR environments for playing domino and checkers, with multiparty chat and viewing. Cultural issues - solved.

  6. spot on apk impression by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    r u apk?

  7. Censure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It has had to pull one blockbuster game and seen others censured.

    I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  8. I'm curious by jargonburn · · Score: 1

    It has had to pull one blockbuster game and seen others censured.

    Censured? Or censored? I'm curious as to whether this was a typo or intentional, haha.

  9. Spam by DaMattster · · Score: 1

    I get so much spam from Tencent and QQ that I have to outrightly block their IPs to my VM. Tencent is just a really terrible netizen.