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“The court effectively found that, even though virtual currency isn’t real and is infinite in supply, it still can deserve legal protection in the same way as real world currency,” Jas Purewal, author of Gamer/Law told Develop Online, noting that he believes that the explosion in online gaming and the sales of goods within gaming is leading to case precedents regarding digital currencies.
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Hacker Mitchell appears to have significantly shortchanged himself if Zynga valued the stolen currency at $12 million but he only netted $85,870 and had $298,117 in unrealized sales. Why do you suppose the discrepancy was so great? And how might the U.K. legal precedent help future prosecution of social gaming hackers?

Mastering Position and Blinds in Facebook Poker

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One of the best practices held dear by successful Facebook Poker players is to play their hole cards successfully by capitalizing on it during the late position of the game. Any facebook poker hole cards that generate a pot in the early position is exponentially more profitable if played in the late stage of the game. You don’t need to regret using hole cards that lose you facebook poker chips at the early position, they probably are not worth using at any part of the game.

If you think that this reasoning is solely based on speculation and trick play then you are underestimating the amount of mathematics involved in a successful Facebook or Zynga poker game. Computer simulations have proven that playing your hole cards in the late position is viable in this situation you get an opponent with a fixed intelligence, which is roughly higher than a regular Joe sitting in your facebook poker table. Of course the downside is that in a regular facebook poker game, players will easily spot you if you keep playing your weak holes on the button- this can be dangerous and lead to being check raised or make you lose your entire stack of zynga poker chips by betting against a strong hand.

Playing your hole cards early on is entirely dependent on each players hand and how they are used as the game progresses. If your gut tells you that your hole cards are strong enough to bet with during the early position then trust your instincts and save them for later. Being in the late position and gambling with trash hands will get you nothing but break even at best and broke at worst, with no option but to buy facebook poker chips to get back in the game.


Blinds c an also be pretty tricky in Facebook Texas Holdem Poker, especially if you are in a situation where no one raises against your small blind. This can tempt you to call using weak hold cards just to find out if it is a flop. You can take advantage of this situation by abandoning your small blind bet, folding your handand ending up in a break even. The same principle applies if you are in the big blind and someone decides to rise against you- fold if you know that your hand isn’t stellar enough to play. Even if you are gambling away millions of facebook chips for the fun of it, throwing away your chips in facebook poker chips is never a wise decision.

You can gain a bit more poker chips if you play the underdog in the blinds and loose a little but be careful at running the risk of going too far. It is never cool to keep betting for the sake of a Hail Mary win- wait for good cards to land in your hand even in the blinds.

Zynga IPO Update: FarmVille maker expects to raise $1 billion

The money that the social games giant is looking to raise from shareholders as it goes public would value the company at $20 billion
Just moments ago, social games creator Zynga, which was founded only four years ago and took off on Facebook when it created FarmVille, filed its S-1 with the SEC. It plans to raise as much as $1 billion from potential shareholders, according to the filing. But TechCrunch has suggested that this number could just be a temporary placeholder and Reuters notes that the final target could be closer to $2 billion, which would value Zynga at $20 billion.
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"The numbers of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined," according to a press release that Zynga put out. "A portion of the shares will be issued and sold by Zynga, and a portion will be sold by certain stockholders of Zynga."
Regardless of the price or the number of shares, I suspect that they will all be snatched up as soon as possible by interested parties. For months, tech writers have been waiting for word that Zynga was ready to go public and, over the past few days, the anticipation has reached a fever pitch.
According to the filing with the SEC, Zynga has more than 230 million monthly active users in nearly 140 countries. Players of Zynga games spend about two billion minutes every day tending to their virtual crops, interacting with CityVille neighbors and more.
Unlike Pandora and some of the other tech companies that have filed -- or have been considering filing -- for an IPO, Zynga is profitable. In 2010, the company reported more than $90 million in net income, with a near-30 percent margin. And those figures will be eclipsed by 2011's numbers: In just the first quarter of this year, Zynga reported close to $12 million in profit. And if that's not enough to convince potential shareholders to invest, the social gaming giant has almost a billion dollars in cash on hand.
"We believed play -- like search, share and shop -- would become one of the core activities on the Internet," founder and CEO Mark Pincus wrote in the S-1's introduction. "Play is one of life's big macros -- it's an activity people love to do and do often. Zynga was founded on a deeply held passion for games that family and friends play together -- connecting, collaborating, gifting, bragging, nurturing, admiring and sometimes just doing silly stuff together. Reality is, we all wish we had more time to play together."
Over the years, Zynga has proven that we have plenty of time. Maybe not as much as we -- or the Zynga team -- would like, but plenty. Soon after FarmVille debuted on Facebook, it was being played by millions of people who, together, spent millions of hours on their digital plots of land.
Underwriters include Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, JP Morgan and Allen and Company.