Deep Water Holdem

1. Deep Water Book
2. Deep Water Holdem Poker
3. Deep Water Holdem Game

Nov 28, 2019 Deep Water Hold'em is a six-handed cash game that follows the same rules as a traditional hold'em game. But with a couple of major differences, of course. The first thing you'll notice is that.

Not one but two exciting new poker cash game variants have been launched by PokerStars for real money. The similar-themed games will only be available for a limited period of time.

1. Basic Texas Holdem Poker Rules. Texas Hold'em Poker is the most popular poker variation in the world and the one you've most likely seen played on TV. Holdem is a community card game that can be played with anywhere from 2-10 players and most often you'll find in No-Limit format - meaning any player can put all of his or her chips in at any time.
2. Beyond Texas Hold’em, the poker room offers Seven-card Stud, Omaha Hi-Lo, and others as well as numerous promos throughout the week. The Orleans also offers various tournaments including a popular summer series. The daily tournaments include PLO, Omaha Hi-Lo, Eight-Game Mix, H.O.R.S.E., and others.

As exclusively revealed last week, Deep Water Hold’em and Tempest Hold’em are the latest in a suite of new game innovations to launch on PokerStars in the last two years.

They replace the long-standing Power Up, the operator’s esports hybrid poker game that was removed from the main lobby earlier today.

“Our aim is to satisfy those who may be hungry for a deep strategic challenge, as well as those wanting a simple, no frills thrill,” a PokerStars spokesperson told pokerfuse last week. “Much like our other exclusive games, Deep Water and Tempest will be offered by PokerStars for a limited period.”

The operator is trialing both these games for real money in the UK and for play money on the dot-net client. They are eventually expected to roll out to other markets including the global sites and many other markets with access to the global player pool. Tempest Hold’em, however, will come to a limited set of markets.

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How Do These New Game Variants Work?

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Both these new games are played as 6-max No Limit Hold’em but with several never-seen-before features including an additional blind dubbed a Giant Blind posted by the player Under the Gun that acts as the third blind. This extra blind is twice the size of the big blind.

Furthermore, every player on the table is required to post an ante—the size of which increases every hand until a showdown is reached.

For example, at a table with a stake of $0.25/$0.50/$1.00 with $0.10 ante, if there is no showdown in the hand, the antes in the next hand increase to $0.20, then again to $0.30 and so on (there is a cap on how big it can get, set at 4x the original size). Once a hand goes to showdown, the ante for the next hand resets back to its initial value i.e., $0.10.

The format adds a whole new strategic element to the game as it encourages players to play more hands and it induces more action thereby creating bigger pots.

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“We are really excited by these new mechanics,” said Séverin Rasset, Managing Director & Commercial Officer, Poker in a press statement. “They encourage creative play and wider ranges than traditional NLHE, while retaining NLHE’s long-standing appeals.”

Debut of Push or Fold Variant – Tempest Hold’em

While both games are thematically linked and play similarly, Tempest Hold’em is a preflop-only push or fold shallow stack game format where players get only two options preflop: Either go all-in or fold. There is no call or check button.

In addition, every pot is capped, so the maximum a player can wager per hand is also 10 Giant Blinds (twice the big blind), so even if stakck sizes grow there will be no deep stack strategy. Players can buy-in for 5 to 10 Giant Blinds.

Other mechanisms of the game work similar to Deep Water: Three Blinds, with antes increasing every hand until there is a showdown.

“We recognise that poker players have different motivations for playing, and we continue to learn more about them with each new game we develop,” Rasset said.

“Whether you’re drawn to the strategic battling of Deep Water, the quick-fire action of PokerStars Tempest, or any other of your favourite poker games, our goal is to have something for you every time you open PokerStars and to get better with every hand you play,” he added.

Tempest Hold’em marks the operator’s first-ever ultra-simplified cash game poker variant, where every hand is decided preflop, but without the complexity of ICM making push-fold decisions hard.

Only 888poker and the GGPoker Network are known to offer this game format. 888 even runs “push or fold” tournaments while GGPoker only runs it in cash game format.

Other operators offer short-stack games (though still allow checking, calling, and post-flop play) including Winamax’s Short Track and partypoker’s Fast Five. Both set a maximum buy-in of 5 big blinds.

These two new games mark the first time that the operator has launched a cash game novelty variant in ten months. The operator launched 6+ Hold’em back in January which is still being offered.

This also marks the first time that the operator has launched two novelty game variants in tandem. In 2018, PokerStars filled the calendar with temporary cash game variants starting with Split Hold’em in March 2018, then followed this with Showtime Hold’em in May, Unfold in August and Fusion in November.

Deep Water had been in the company’s pipeline for a long time—pokerfuse sister site F5 revealed the game was in the works all the way back in April of this year. Tempest Hold’em was discovered by pokerfuse earlier this month, and confirmed that both games would be coming to the PokerStars client for a limited time.

Other games also on the cards that could replace these two games include Swap Hold’em and an Omaha version of Split Hold’em.

Deepwater drilling,^[1] or Deep well drilling,^[2] is the process of creating holes by drilling rig for oil mining in deep sea. There are approximately 3400 deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico with depths greater than 150 meters.^[3]

It has not been technologically and economically feasible for many years, but with rising oil prices, more companies are investing in this area.^[4] Major companies working in this sector include Halliburton, Diamond Offshore, TransOcean, Geoservices, and Schlumberger. The deepwater gas and oil market is back on the rise after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, and total expenditure of around $35 billion per year and a total global CAPEX of $167 billion in the past four years.^[5]

Recent industry analysis by Visiongain has estimated that the total expenditure in the global deepwater infrastructure market would reach $145bn in 2011.^[6]

“Not all oil is accessible on land or in shallow water. You can find some oil deposits buried deep under the ocean floor.” ...Using sonic equipment, oil companies determine the drilling sites most likely to produce oil. Then they use a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) to dig the initial well. Some units are converted into production rigs, meaning they switch from drilling for oil to capturing oil once it's found. Most of the time, the oil company will replace the MODU with a more permanent oil production rig to capture oil.” ...The MODU's job is to drill down into the ocean's floor to find oil deposits. The part of the drill that extends below the deck and through the water is called the riser. The riser allows for drilling fluids to move between the floor and the rig. Engineers lower a drill string – a series of pipes designed to drill down to the oil deposit – through the riser.”^[7]

“The expansion of deepwater drilling is happening despite accidents in offshore fields...”^[8]

In the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, a large explosion occurred killing workers and spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico while a BP oil rig was drilling in deep waters.

“...Despite the risks, the deepwater drilling trend is spreading in the Mediterranean and off the coast of East Africa after a string of huge discoveries of natural gas.”^[8]

“The reason for the resumption of such drilling, analysts say, is continuing high demand for energy worldwide.”^[8]

History[edit]

Some of the earliest evidence of water wells are located in China. The Chinese discovered and made extensive use of deep drilled groundwater for drinking. The Chinese text The Book of Changes, originally a divination text of the Western Zhou dynasty (1046 -771 BC), contains an entry describing how the ancient Chinese maintained their wells and protected their sources of water.^[9] Archaeological evidence and old Chinese documents reveal that the prehistoric and ancient Chinese had the aptitude and skills for digging deep water wells for drinking water as early as 6000 to 7000 years ago. A well excavated at the Hemedu excavation site was believed to have been built during the Neolithic era.^[10][11] The well was cased by four rows of logs with a square frame attached to them at the top of the well. 60 additional tile wells southwest of Beijing are also believed to have been built around 600 BC for drinking and irrigation.^[10][12]

Types of deepwater drilling facilities[edit]

Drilling in deep waters can be performed by two main types of mobile deepwater drilling rigs: semi-submersible drilling rigs and drillships. Drilling can also be performed from a fixed-position installation such as a fixed platform, or a floating platform, such as a spar platform, a tension-leg platform, or a semi-submersible production platform.

1. Fixed Platform - A Fixed Platform consists of a tall, (usually) steel structure that supports a deck. Because the Fixed Platform is anchored to the sea floor, it is very costly to build. This type of platform can be installed in water depth up to 500 meters (1,600 feet).
2. Jack-Up Rig - Jack-up rigs are mobile units with a floating hull that can be moved around; once arrived to the desired location, the legs are lowered to the sea floor and locked into place. Then the platform is raised up out of the water. That makes this type of rig safer to work on, because weather and waves are not an issue.
3. Compliant Tower Platform - A compliant tower is a particular type of fixed platform. Both are anchored to the sea floor and both work places are above the water surface. However, the compliant tower is taller and narrower, and can operate up to 1 kilometer (3,000 feet) water depth.
4. Semi-Submersible Production Platform - This platform is buoyant, meaning the bulk of it is floating above the surface. However, the well head is typically located on the sea floor, so extra precautions must be made to prevent a leak. A contributing cause to the oil spill disaster of 2010 was a failure of the leak-preventing system. These rigs can operate anywhere from 200 to 2,000 meters (660 to 6,560 feet) below the surface.
5. Tension-Leg Platform - The Tension-leg Platform consists of a floating structure, held in place by tendons that run down to the sea floor. These rigs drill smaller deposits in narrower areas, meaning this is a low-cost way to get a little oil, which attracts many companies. These rigs can drill anywhere from 200 to 1,200 meters (660 to 3,940 feet) below the surface.
6. Subsea System - Subsea Systems are actually wellheads, which sit on the sea floor and extract oil straight from the ground. They use pipes to force the oil back up to the surface, and can siphon oil to nearby platform rigs, a ship overhead, a local production hub, or even a faraway onshore site. This makes the Subsea system very versatile and a popular choice for companies.
7. Spar Platform - Spar Platforms use a large cylinder to support the floating deck from the sea floor. On average, about 90% of the Spar Platform's structure is underwater. Most Spar Platforms are used up to depths of 1 kilometer (3,000 feet), but new technology can extend them to function up to 3,500 meters (11,500 feet) below the surface. That makes it one of the deepest drilling rigs in use today.^[13]

2010 Gulf Oil Spill Disaster[edit]

On 20 April 2010, a BP deepwater oil rig (Deepwater Horizon) exploded, killing 11 and releasing 750,000 cubic meters (200 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. With those numbers, many scientists consider this disaster to be one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of the US.^[14]

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A large number of animal deaths have resulted from the release of the oil. A Center study estimates that over 82,000 birds; about 6,000 sea turtles; and nearly 26,000 marine mammals were killed from either the initial explosion or the oil spill.

See also[edit]

General

Offshore drilling, Well drilling, Shallow water drilling, Extraction of petroleum, Age of Oil, Fossil fuel drilling (disambiguation), Energy development, Hubbert peak theory

Other

2010 United States deepwater drilling moratorium, Submersible pump, IntelliServ, Petroleum industry in Mexico, Deepwater Horizon

People

Michael Klare, Jason Leopold

References[edit]

1. ^Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production: A Nontechnical Guide. By William L. Leffler, Richard Pattarozzi, Gordon Sterling. PennWell Books, 2011.
2. ^Deep Well Drilling: The Principles and Practices of Deep Well Drilling, and a Hand Book of Useful Information for the Well Driller. By Walter Henry Jeffery. W. H. Jeffery Company, 1921.
3. ^http://www.boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/Mapping-and-Data/Index.aspx
4. ^The Deepwater Ultra Deepwater Exploration Production Market 2013-2023. visiongain. January 2, 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
5. ^{http://www.douglas-westwood.com/shop/shop-infopage.php?longref=502~0#.Us6y_cRDuSo}
6. ^The Deepwater Ultra Deepwater Market 2011-2021. visiongain. May 31, 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
7. ^Freudenrich, Ph.D, Craig; Strickland, Jonathan. 'How Oil Drilling Works'. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
8. ^ ^abcKrauss, Clifford; Broder, John M. (2012-03-04). 'Deepwater Oil Drilling Picks Up Again as BP Disaster Fades'. New York Times.
9. ^Kuhn, Oliver (2004-06-30). 'Ancient Chinese Drilling'. Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 29 (6).
10. ^ ^abChang, Mingteh (2012). Forest Hydrology: An Introduction to Water and Forests (3rd ed.). CRC Press (published November 1, 2012). p. 31. ISBN978-1439879948.
11. ^Angelakis, Andreas N.; Mays, Larry W.; Koutsoyiannis, Demetris; Mamassis, Nikos (2012). Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia. Iwa Publishing (published January 1, 2012). pp. 202–203. ISBN978-1843395409.
12. ^Koon, Wee Kek (July 25, 2015). 'How the ancient Chinese looked after their drinking water'. South China Morning Post.
13. ^{http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/stories/types-of-offshore-oil-rigs}^{[permanent dead link]}
14. ^{http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/energy/dirty_energy_development/oil_and_gas/gulf_oil_spill/}

External articles[edit]

• Deepwater Drilling: How It Works Chevron Video. chevron.com.
• HowStuffWorks 'Ultra Deep Water Oil Drilling'. science.howstuffworks.com.
• Rigzone - Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Drilling Activity to Keep Rising. rigzone.com. April 24, 2013.