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Poker Champ Sues Casino For Big Bucks

Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 05.07.2013 | Sports

Poker champion Phil Ivey is going all-in to get back his disputed winnings at Crockfords casino in London. Ivey is suing the casino for $12.1 milli...

How Poker Can Tell Us If a Person Will Blow His Money

Don McNay | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business
Don McNay

Poker players frequently give off signals that tip off the kind of cards they have. It is the same thing in these conferences. I would actually pay the attorneys and clients to bring me to meditations as I can spot problems and make corrections before they get money in their hands.

Suspects Charged In Alleged Russian Mob Organized Poker Games Plead Not Guilty

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 04.20.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — It's a case teeming with colorful characters: a reputed Russian mob boss once accused in an Olympic scandal, a wealthy art world impr...

Russian Mob Ran High-Stakes Poker Games For Stars: Feds

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 04.16.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — Nearly three dozen people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime operation that included il...

Calling a Bluff: Is It All in the Arms?

Wray Herbert | Posted 04.09.2013 | Science
Wray Herbert

We all know the expression "poker face" because the face is where we expect to find meaningful information. But what if poker players are looking in the wrong place?

Vegas Poker Rooms Fold

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 04.30.2013 | Travel

LAS VEGAS — The Tropicana hoped to step back into the big leagues when it opened its poker room in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, touting it ...

13 Awesome Poker Rooms for High Rollers

Ryan Nickum | Posted 03.18.2013 | HuffPost Home
Ryan Nickum

The decision to designate a room in the house specifically for playing poker is a hard one.

Online Poker Room Wants To Go Brick-And-Mortar

AP | By WAYNE PARRY | Posted 03.18.2013 | Technology

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (AP) — The owner of the world's largest online poker website wants to add a brick-and-mortar casino to its portfolio. ...

Zynga's Bet On Becoming One Giant Online Casino

Reuters | Gerry Shih | Posted 02.04.2013 | Technology

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social games maker Zynga Inc said on Wednesday it filed a preliminary application to run real-m...

Real Estate, Poker and the Humanities

Jon Bronson | Posted 02.03.2013 | Los Angeles
Jon Bronson

For me, houses are cards and cards are houses. It's all the same thing. Right now? There's no inventory. The table is tight. It will loosen up, but be patient. Hang tight and be ready to pounce because it's a seller's market right now.

What Are Good Ways To Run an Illegal Poker Room?

Quora | Posted 01.28.2013 | Entertainment
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by an Anonymous User, Gambling is banned in my (Muslim/Islamic) country and carries a serious pr...

24-Year-Old's Big Poker Pay Day

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 12.31.2012 | Sports

-- A Maryland poker professional won the World Series of Poker main event, outlasting his final opponents in a marathon card session of nearly 12 hou...

Why Poker Champ Isn't Getting His $11.7 Million

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 10.11.2012 | Business

Poker champ Phil Ivey recently played a different card game and won $11.7 million. But did he play Crockfords casino for a sucker? The ritzy London...

It Just Wasn't In The Cards For Zynga's Poker Chief

Reuters | Posted 12.08.2012 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc's executive overseeing its key poker game has quit, hitting the gamemaker in a particularly vulnerable spot as it ...

Slow Playing The Whale

Mike Bonifer | Posted 11.19.2012 | Politics
Mike Bonifer

This latest Mitt Romney scenario, where he said the clueless thing and followed it up by doing something stupid? And now we are all screaming about it like this doesn't happen all the time?

Art of Living: Poker and Mindful Meditation

Kate Moulene | Posted 11.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Kate Moulene

I have found the most productive, fun, and effective exercise for mastering discipline comes from playing poker. Fifty-two cards, eight opponents and a lifetime of lessons that can be applied to just about everything.

Judge Hands Poker Advocates Major Victory

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.21.2012 | Home

NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that poker is more a game of skill than chance and cannot be prosecuted under a law created to stop org...

Online Poker Rooms Finally Ante Up And Repay Players

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 09.30.2012 | Technology

NEW YORK (AP) — Settlement deals reached between federal prosecutors and three Internet poker companies call for more than a half billion dollars to...

My Impossible Run Through the World Series of Poker

Jonathan_Miller | Posted 09.10.2012 | Sports
Jonathan_Miller

My goal was fairly modest: I wanted to enjoy as much of this experience as I could, so I ventured to survive until the end of Day 1, after which only 15 percent of the field would be left sitting.

Online Gaming CEO Arrested Over Alleged Ponzi Scheme

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 07.03.2012 | Business

Won an online poker game and are expecting your money soon? If the game was on fulltiltpoker.com, don't bet on it. The FBI arrested Raymond Bitar, ...

Who Do A Stock Market Trader And Poker Pro Have In Common?

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 06.13.2012 | Business

What do a stock market trader and poker professional have in common? Enough for the former to become the latter. That's what ex-derivatives trade...

The World Series Of Poker Is Back

AP | CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 05.29.2012 | Sports

LAS VEGAS -- For serious poker players, it's like Christmas and the Olympics combined. The World Series of Poker opened in Las Vegas Monday with it...

Tilt

Annie Duke | Posted 07.11.2012 | Business
Annie Duke

If you have a bad thing happen to you because you did something wrong, that is something you can fix. You can strive to not do that again. You can learn from your mistakes. You can analyze what you did wrong so you don't repeat it going forward.

RIchest Poker Prize Ever?

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 06.12.2012 | Sports

LAS VEGAS — A never-before-seen $1 million buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker this year will generate the richest top prize in poker...

Turning America Into a Giant Casino

Robert Reich | Posted 06.02.2012 | Business
Robert Reich

Organized gambling is a scam. And it particularly preys upon people with lower incomes -- who assume they can't make it big any other way, who often find it hardest to assess the odds, and whose families can least afford to lose the money. Yet America is now opening the floodgates.