curiosities

Drunken player bluffs the casino staff, downs 42 beers in 17 hours

03.01.2011 21:16
On New Year's Day at the Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia, a drunken poker player pulled off a successful bluff in an unusual way, by fooling the casino staf...

Video: Bad Beat Jackpot hits at the Casino at the Empire

22.12.2010 18:56
The Bad Beat Jackpot at the Casino at the Empire had recently reached £222,000 when it finally hit one lucky morning at the London casino. Rupert Graham made £1...

Fatal crash: Lorry driver plays poker

04.11.2010 11:42
The incredibly irresponsible actions of a British lorry driver led to a fatal crash on a motorway - and a jail sentence for the driver who had been playing Facebo...

23 players agree to a deal at Foxwoods

17.10.2010 21:03
Funny news from the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut: in the $400 NLHE preliminary event at the World Poker Finals, the 23 remaining players in the tournamen...

Superstitious Chinese gambler refuses to accept a win

19.09.2010 13:38
Superstition is a common trait among gamblers, and Asian players are possibly the most superstitious of all. One fine example of this is the Chinese "Mr. C" who r...

Poker keeps Chilean miner "happy and content"

29.08.2010 21:57
One of the Chilean miners trapped 700 metres underground is the former national team footballer Franklin Lobos, 53, whose daughter Caroline, 25, has revealed to D...

Poker nicknames - how did they get them?

20.06.2010 18:27
The world of professional poker is populated by colorful characters, and many of them have been branded with cool and sometimes not so cool nicknames. Max Shapiro...

Are these the 30 hottest women in poker?

14.05.2010 14:57
Australian sports page Bleacher Report have put up their own list in a topic that never seems to go out of fashion: The 30 Hottest Women in Poker....

What will poker look like in 2020?

18.04.2010 21:45
Swedish poker portal Poker.se asked three experts how they see the future of poker in ten years' time....

Video: New interactive poker game

31.03.2010 09:02
On this video students from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany demonstrate their invention of a new kind of interactive poker game....
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