Jon is a freelance writer and novelist who learned to play poker after watching Rounders in year 9. He has been giving away his beer money at cards ever since. Currently he is based in Bristol where he makes sporadic donations to the occasional live tournament or drunken late night Zoom session. He blogs at What Is There to Option?
A fascinating article that ties the worlds of Chinese exchange controls and the Triads to casino junkets in Macau to the Vegas strip and to the shady individuals who pay the way for the presidential hopefuls.
It’s the closest thing to a universal card-player’s dream: to stumble across some online poker site and try it out with just a few bucks and a matched deposit bonus code, only to build all the way to the highroller table.
Two years after so called ‘Black Friday’, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the writers behind Rounders, watched as their take on the Full Tilt scandal hit the big screen.
Razz’s oddities definitely shouldn’t turn you off the game; the average holdemist might find that those oddities allow you to sharpen up a few specifics in your game, and a more open mind might just enjoy razz for it’s own sake.
The Grand came out in 2007 around the same time as Deal and Lucky You were also trying to make a little moola off the back of the WSOP’s peak year for attendance the year before. Of the three, The Grand probably makes the best go of it.
Crass, arrogant, showboating, and – in their own mind – infallible Hellmuth and Trump seem almost avatars for each other, the one political, the other plays card games.
Mercier explained in an interview that 2-7 single draw is one of the purest forms of poker, in terms of reading your opponent, whether he has it or doesn't, and whether he has the best hand or your do.
The use of mathematics by gamblers is obvious and pervasive. Concepts like expected value, Bayesian probability, Kelly criteria, and Nash equilibrium are all part and parcel of the business of risk.
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.
In an effort to get people to put their money where their mouth is, David ‘ODB’ Baker tweeted this offer a while ago.
Poker and Cinema have a long-standing relationship, especially in the Hollywood tradition. Like chess it is a game that lends itself to thematic metaphor and character traits.
Netflix's newest poker documentary suffers a number of setbacks. We examine them all in a critical review.
There is a long association between poker and golf. Hellmuth points out that for pros in Vegas, it is a good opportunity to get some sunshine, some exercise that isn’t too strenuous, and – most importantly – you never have to stop gambling.
The demigods descend into the casino pit and throw in a little of their fame-money in with our filthy lucre. Movie stars, directors, athletes, comedians, and writers all do it, even educated fleas do it. They all play poker.
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