Poker
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Phil Ivey’s ‘edge-sorting’ technique to predict cards was deemed to break the gaming contract with Mayfair casino
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This week’s roundup also features the week’s most suspect tackle, a court-side haircut, and if Monday Night Football did the news
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Bookmaker says it will not pursue potential £4.6bn tie-up with Canadian company after opposition from shareholders
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The secret life The secret life of a professional poker player: I’m on the fringes of society
AnonymousI love the freedom and the intellectual challenge that poker gives me, but it takes a heavy psychological toll -
Social Network writer Sorkin, who is making his directorial debut, says chemistry between Elba and Jessica Chastain will be ‘electric’
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Oscar-winning screenwriter is set to helm film based on the memoir of a world-class skier who made millions running a high-stakes poker game
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An alpha Ryan Reynolds takes on a smart deadbeat gambler Ben Mendelsohn, for a road-trip movie that never reaches its big pay-off
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Twelve years after game become legal in Catalonia, city is flush with world’s best players, trailing only Las Vegas in popularity
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Bid valuing the group at just over £1bn trumps offer made by rival suitor 888 Holdings that was recommended by Bwin board
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Gibraltar-based 888 pays £898m for owner of websites including FoxyBingo and Partypoker as industry’s consolidation continues
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Christian Pham, 40, took home $81,314 at the World Series of Poker after defeating 219 players in a game he had never played before
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Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, one of Britain’s most successful poker players, who was influential in helping the game to cross over into mainstream culture, has died after a battle with cancer
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Amazon subsidiary streamed 56m minutes of poker to its 100m monthly viewers in January, setting its sights on gambling market
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Last week, researchers claimed to have developed a poker-playing computer program that is nearly unbeatable. What are the implications for the old debate about whether poker is a game of skill or luck?
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The screenwriter is to adapt the memoirs of skier turned poker entrepreneur who shares name with Ulysses heroine
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Casino rule 1: the house always wins
Victoria Coren MitchellVictorial Coren Mitchell: As gambler Phil Ivey found to his cost, no matter how subtle your sting, the casino comes out on top -
American sued over baccarat game after owners of London Crockfords Club claimed ‘edge-sorting’ technique was illegitimate
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Deal designed to draw line under group's contentious past in America and is backed by private equity group Blackstone
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Enfield council successfully prosecutes poker den operator for money-laundering as number of illegal gambling clubs grows
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Christopher Hall: You told us: The game should use the good publicity from Victoria Coren Mitchell's European double to rebalance the gender split
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Writer and television presenter takes home cash prize of £391,932 after overcoming the odds to win European Poker Tour
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Journalist becomes first two-time winner of the European Poker Tour and scoops nearly £400,000
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NRA brought two challenges regarding age and guns among cases also covering convictions, consumer rights and poker
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Learn something new about your old friends, or break the ice with new people, over a game of poker
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Barnaby Rogerson continues our numerical festive countdown, extracted from his Book of Numbers, with the cultural history of card suits
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Andy Seth: There aren’t many jobs where you can do everything right and still lose tens of thousands of dollars. What do you want to know?
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Ana Marie Cox: If politics is a game of poker, McCain goes all-in. But on Syria, his gambler's instincts make him vulnerable to Obama's bluff
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Bank on women in a crisis
Victoria CorenVictoria Coren: Female poker players are good gamblers. It's time we were running the economy
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Ray Bitar who was charged with bank fraud, money laundering and online gambling offences faced a jail sentence of 65 years
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The poker player turned political forecaster won fame after predicting the result of the US election with uncanny accuracy. Carole Cadwalladr meets him
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Poker professional wins marathon tournament that began in July
Oh the humanity! Poker computer trounces humans in big step for AI