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World Series of Poker Atlantic City Circuit Events Announced

This past week The World Series of Poker Circuit Event staff released the schedule of events, which offer 17 different tournaments (WOW!) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, from Dec. 4-20.
The tournaments will range in length from one to three days and feature buy-ins from $230 to $5,150.
But the largest buy in is for the Three-Day [...]

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Posted on September 24, 2009 by doclotto | Filed Under Luck, Poker, Poker Players, Tournaments
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willing to take the gamble that poker is a skill?

According to this article posted a few days ago, a Colorado court has ruled that poker is a game of skill and is therefore not gambling. The defendants in the case were cleared of charges related to illegal gambling for running a private poker game. By trotting out testimony of the amount of skill relative [...]

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Posted on January 31, 2009 by Secor | Filed Under Article Review, Culture, Luck, Online Poker, Poker
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Steven Lubet on Luck in Poker

                                                                       
 ”In poker, it is often said that lucky breaks keep suckers at the table.” [A quote from Steven Lubet's book Lawyer’s Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players]
 There’s a story that Niels Bohr, the famous Physicist, had a horse shoe over his desk.  One day a student asked if he really believed that [...]

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Posted on October 3, 2007 by Suber | Filed Under Analysis, Luck, Poker
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