Poker
Poker is the one casino game where the other players are your opponents and the house only takes a cut. This shelf covers the maths of the game and the players who made it famous.
41 entries. Latest shelved 16 Oct 2026.
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Atlantic City's Boardwalk Empire: From Resort to Gambling Mecca
Atlantic City isn't a gambling town that forgot it was a beach resort. It's a beach resort that went for the Hail Mary in 1978 and caught the ball in double coverage. Here's the tape.
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Germany's Online Gambling Landscape: A General Overview
Germany's online gambling framework changed substantially with the 2021 Interstate Treaty. Two years of testing this market as a consumer surfaces eight things a new player should know before depositing a single euro.
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The Best Poker Books Every Serious Player Should Read
A serious poker player reads. He reads books that other players have not read. That gives him an edge. Here are the books that built poker minds, chosen by someone who has watched poker subcultures from inside for twenty years.
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How Home Poker Games Differ From Casino Cash Games
I played home games for five years before I ever stepped foot in a casino poker room. I learned quickly that the games are fundamentally different. The stakes might be the same, but the structure, the rules, and the mindset are completely different.
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Bryn Kenney: Inside the All-Time Poker Money Leader
Bryn Kenney. The name carries weight in rooms where real money sits on felt. A kid from New York with an instinct for blood in the water. By 2024, he had moved more chips than anyone alive.
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Barry Greenstein: The Robin Hood of Poker and His Donations
Barry Greenstein's career, spanning computer engineering at Symantec in the 1980s and a subsequent professional poker practice at the highest stakes, invites reexamination not for the conventional reasons of tournament results or cash-game legend, but for the philanthropic model he constructed around his winnings.
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How to Win Your First Poker Freeroll
A freeroll is free money with rules. You're in a room with 300 people with nothing to lose and everything to prove. Here's how I made it to the final table.
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Barry Greenstein: The Robin Hood of Poker and His Donations
Barry Greenstein made $30 million at poker. He gave most of it away to fight childhood disease and poverty. Here's how one professional gambler became a philanthropist.
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Isildur1 vs the Online Poker Elite: Viktor Blom's Rise
Viktor Blom played online poker under the handle Isildur1. He was young, aggressive, and fearless. In 2009-2010, he won and lost tens of millions of dollars in high-stakes games. His story is a case study in youth, talent, and the limits of both.
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Atlantic City's Boardwalk Empire: From Resort to Gambling Mecca
Atlantic City wasn't always a casino town. The Boardwalk had Sinatra and salt water taffy before it had roulette wheels. Here's how that happened.
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What Is a Poker Rakeback?
Rakeback is money the sportsbook gives back to players. The first time most poker players hear about it, they've already lost thousands without it.
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