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The prop bet will see Kaverman swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112 miles and then running 26.2 miles –and he will have to do it in the average time that actual Ironman competitors do it in, which is just under 13 hours.

We look to build our talents dictating when to bet and when to fold, but we do not spend much time thinking about how to get the most out of those wonderful occasions when we hit the absolute stone-cold nuts.

The stakes got a lot higher though when Vanessa Selbst joined the sweat party. She gave 180-to-1 odds to win three WSOP bracelets this summer. If Mercier takes down three events, he will get $1.8 million.

The Louisiana parish of Thibodaux has hit the headlines around the world due to Drake Domangue’s bizarre attempts to break and then escape the law

Often a combination of the players natural urge to show their emotions and their personality coupled with their awareness of the cameras being present are the perfect recipe to creating memorable and entertaining poker video.

Plenty of ads fail, sometimes because they make the mistake of trying to put a positive spin on losing, and sometimes because they try to make ​Tom Dwan seem like a human. Here are a few of our favorites.

As the money approaches there is a psychological shift in how poker players approach the game. They do not want to bust and leave with nothing, so they play more conservatively and hope someone else busts.

The anonymous Las Vegas Uber driver who was assigned to drive poker player Jacob Brundage who unfortunately left the bag he was carrying in the taxi which was filled with $7000 in cash and playing chips. The driver called Brundage and arranged to drop off the bag.

The openly gay poker pro found himself torn between his precious victory, and his sadness and grief over the homophobia-inspired massacre in Orlando this past weekend.

Ilari Sahamies aka ‘Ziigmund’ is under the radar being mentioned only sporadically by the poker community and all we have left are a couple of poker videos to remind us about how the game was played back when Sahamies was still crushing.

​There are few players as successful in both online poker and live tournament play as Chris Moorman, and now 888Poker.com have signed the star as their newest ambassador.

It’s a bit of a wonder that it has taken this long for Daily Fantasy Sports to bloom into the mega-money gambling paradise that it has become.

The story began for Jankowski when he chose to enter a $0.01 satellite tournament which he went on to win. This gained him a seat at a larger satellite and he finished high enough in that tournament to gain a seat at the next tier.

​The World Series of Poker is not just about Texas Holdem, it’s about other less known poker games too. Forget about Omaha, Stud and Lowball, do you know anything about Badacy? How about Baducy?