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Researchers have developed a computer program they say can beat any human on the planet at a particular variant of Texas Hold'em poker. The scientists aren't planning to clean up with their powerful poker bot. Instead, they hope it can help computers …

High-stakes poker player Paul Phua saw his request to be able to continue playing poker at casinos denied by a federal court. Phua is awaiting trial for his alleged role in an illegal gambling operation run out of a villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas …

Starting your own online poker room. As we've sat shuffling the digital chips on the tables of PokerStars, PKR or Partypoker, how many of us have entertained the thought, albeit briefly, that we could create our own online card haven? Would we make it 3D?

“This is an excellent step forward for us and should help in building a larger audience and player base for online poker in New Jersey,” David Licht, CEO of the All American Poker Network, the joint venture between 888 holdings and Avenue Capital, said …

Former Brazil striker Ronaldo, last seen helping organise the 2014 World Cup in his native Brazil, is enjoying some success in a new career…as a poker player. Ronaldo became one of the famous faces representing Team PokerStars in April 2013, alongside …

With Stalros in charge, Unibet left the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) to launch its own standalone network in early 2014. While revenues have been increasing since the new software was launched, overall poker revenues are down when compared to …

Even though the state of Washington has passed legislation that made playing online poker a crime punishable by jail (the only U.S. state to do so), in 2015 lawmakers there are going to look at getting rid of the draconian rules and actually legalizing …

Reinforcing “no gambling” provisions of a bail agreement that were previously established, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bill Hoffman has denied a request by accused illegal-gambling-business defendants Paul and Darren Phua to be allowed to play poker at Las …

If you've read Jared Tendler's book The Mental Game of Poker, you'll know that he talks about the four stages of learning and the concept my student asked me about has been in my unconscious competence stage for a long time. He asked me, “How do you …

I asked Head of Online Poker at WSOP.com Bill Rini about the potential for duplicate players, to which he responded, “In reviewing data with 888 we both felt that there was more than enough uniqueness between our player bases that this was a win all …

Each week, the Talking Poker series will highlight a particular poker term. We'll give you a clear, to-the-point definition of the term and an example of the strategic concept to which it refers, so that you can start using the term and implementing …

On April 21, 2015 the open registration period begins and names will be available for registration in the same manner as any other top level domain. An announcement has not yet been made regarding the cost of a dot-poker name when it goes up for sale.

If you thought IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue, was impressive, this is going to blow you away. Two-player limit Texas hold'em poker has been solved. Pitted one-on-one against the world's best poker players, a new computer program named …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer for flamboyant poker pro Dan Bilzerian says he hopes to reach a plea deal and avoid trial for Bilzerian and a friend on felony charges that they illegally blew up the cab of a tractor-trailer with a homemade bomb in the …

You are at the final table of a major Las Vegas poker tournament and with just three players left, you are guaranteed at least $562,736 from your initial $10,000 investment. Second place will earn $869,683 and the winner will take home $1,477,890.

UIGEA and Black Friday are the most often cited reasons for poker's decline since it reached its apex in 2006. But these are just the most oft-cited among a myriad of potential culprits. But what if the major reason poker's popularity has waned has …

Cepheus has already played millions of hands of heads-up limit Texas hold 'em, a poker game between two players involving two held cards and three shared. That would take a lifetime or two for you or me, but Cepheus is a computer program, set up by …

The algorithm has a near perfect strategy for the game, which in turn makes the AI virtually unbeatable by human pokers at Texas Hold 'Em Poker. According to the statistical analysis, which backs the study, even if a human player plays against the …