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The 26-year-old poker pro from El Dorado Hills, California also has experienced considerable short-handed success at the WSOP, twice making final tables in six-max events. Paur finished fifth in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed Championship in …

Pham ended both the first and second days as the chip leader, and at the end of the third day, he was the proud owner of a brand-new World Series of Poker bracelet and a cash prize. “Now, I love this game,” Pham said, per WSOP.com. Considering that he …

A seasonal dip was fully expected as the weather improved and the holiday season began, and this was reflected in a 2.9 percent fall from April, but the 15.2 percent drop, year on year, tells a more alarming story: that the New Jersey online poker …

Poker is an emotional game that is increasingly competitive, with players constantly seeking new and different things to do to help them win. One of the biggest places elite player's today are finding that edge is by working on their mental game as a …

bill rini We're proud to bring you this special interview with Bill Rini, Head of Online Poker at WSOP.com. Bill has been working in the poker industry for many, many years and brings a wealth of experience to his current, prestigious position. Bill …

Australia's central bank said it was appropriate to leave interest rates steady this month while it assessed the impact of past easing on the economy. In minutes of its June 2 meeting, where the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate …

LUCK OF THE DRAW: 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, in Las Vegas. Pham accidentally entered the No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven …

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 …