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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 …

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 …

I have always thought there is a real lack of poker fiction and I think it would be fun to do a poker serial, a new story every week with a cast of characters. This story starts with our main character, Banks, at a poker table in Las Vegas. If you like …

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 …

A six-month stint behind the counter at McDonald's as a schoolboy might be the last "real" job David Yan ever has. Yan, a former Mt Roskill Grammar student, has won more than $2.3 million playing poker in the past three years and now tours the world on …

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 …

A six-month stint behind the counter at McDonald's as a schoolboy might be the last "real" job David Yan ever has. Yan, a former Mt Roskill Grammar student, has won more than $2.3 million playing poker in the past three years and now tours the world on …

A typical seven-night poker cruise is less expensive than traveling to a destination resort. For about $100 a day, cruisers get a comfortable cabin, all the food they can eat (including complimentary room service), nightly Las Vegas-style entertainment …

Computers have figured out how to win at chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe, and now, a computer program has conquered the game of poker. A research team led by Michael Bowling, a professor of computer science at the University of Alberta in Canada, …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Professional poker player Dan Bilzerian and a friend are due for arraignment in a Las Vegas courtroom on felony explosives charges alleging they illegally blew up the cab of a tractor-trailer with a homemade bomb in the desert …

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 …