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Poker players are funny beasts. Often they chalk their losses up to bad luck, yet every hand that they win — even if it is from a fortunate run out of the community cards — comes down to having outplayed their opponents. This is a dangerous school of …

Phil Hellmuth may be the undisputed king of the World Series of Poker, but if he wants to keep his status as most visible to television cameras, he is going to have to step up his game. In a recent interview with PokerListings.com, Negreanu discussed a …

The poker championship has multiple games. Christian Pham thought he was going to play no-limit Texas Hold'em. Instead, he signed up for a poker variant called 2-7 draw lowball. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep. Some gamblers …

Plenty. You may have heard people talk about an “unexploitable” poker strategy. That concept stems from Nash's work. In order to explain the connection, it helps to start with a game far less complicated than poker, something called “The Prisoner's …

Christian Pham celebrates during a bracelet ceremony after he won the World Series of Poker No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw tournament Friday, June 12, 2015, in Las Vegas. Pham accidentally entered the No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw …

Hellmuth won his 14th tournament bracelet early Tuesday morning, placing him four ahead of poker's other iconic winners Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and Phil Ivey. The gold bracelets, poker's version of a Super Bowl ring or Olympics medals, have been …

In a rare occurrence for a World Series of Poker event, a player won a tournament who would've unregistered if they allowed him to after the first hand of play. Christian Pham, a Vietnamese born pro who resides in Minnesota, won Event #23: $1,500 No …

Parasol and DeLeon launched PartyGaming in 1997, along with Anurag Dikshit and Vikrant Bhargava, and PartyPoker was the market-leading online poker site throughout the early to mid-noughties. In 2005 they floated the company on the FTSE 100 with a …

As technology evolves and new third party online poker software is developed, keeping up with changes is increasingly becoming a problem for today's online poker site operators to manage. Everyone recognizes there is problem, but nobody seems to know …

For the average poker hobbyist, the allure of poker, and indeed the World Series of Poker, has always remained the same. Unlike basketball, football, golf, or tennis, in poker, anyone can take on the best in the world and win. Anyone with the cash to …

Imagine a winner-take-all game of poker with $1 million going to the sole survivor. Imagine there were only 16 players in the game, and you somehow found yourself in the final three. This is a spot Albert Destrade, then 25, found himself in four years …

The 40-year-old professional poker player said he intended to play no-limit Texas Hold 'em but instead inadvertently signed up for a different game happening the same day: so-called no-limit deuce-to-seven draw lowball. The cost? A $1,500 buy-in.

Christian Pham celebrates during a bracelet ceremony after he won the World Series of Poker No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw tournament Friday, June 12, 2015, in Las Vegas. Pham accidentally entered the No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw …

Born in Iran but of Armenian descent, Ghaneian now calls Henderson, NV home and poker his profession. He mostly plays cash games, but this tournament win could hardly have come at a better time. His wife is pregnant with twins, who are expected soon.

On Saturday, many revved up to take part in the Poker Run. At five designated pitstops at various locations in East Sussex and Kent participants drew a playing card to gain the five-card hand needed to play the game and be in with a chance of winning.

Brian Hastings was already considered one of the game's top young players. He's played no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha at some the highest stakes ever seen, once winning over $4 million in one session online. Now he joins the prestigious list of …

On Saturday, many revved up to take part in the Poker Run. At five designated pitstops at various locations in East Sussex and Kent participants drew a playing card to gain the five-card hand needed to play the game and be in with a chance of winning.

Police in Nevada are hunting the gunman who murdered deaf poker player Jonathan Cyril Collins in his car on May 11. The thirty-nine-year-old Collins is a three-time National Deaf Poker Tour (NDPT) champion. He died from a gunshot wound to his chest.