A CLASSIC POKER SCENE… Trinity, Bambino, and two cowboys play a card game with a professional card sharp named Wild Card Hendriks. Thanks to his cardsharping skills, Trinity deals everybody a potentially winning hand…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrG3lVrOFt4 Continue reading
American Go Assoc. @theaga usgo.org/news/2013/09/l… fb.me/12bE1UeSb 08 Sep London Club Issues Appeal for International Teams The Central London Go Club is appealing for American — and other foreign — nationals living in the UK to help put the “International” back into the London International Teams Tournament… Continue reading
A straight flush is a hand that contains five cards in sequence, all of the same suit, such as Q♣ J♣ 10♣ 9♣ 8♣ (a hand that meets the requirements of both a straight, and a flush). Two such hands are compared by their card that is ranked highest. Aces… Continue reading
Poker Great Gus Hansen demonstrating his skills at Speed Gammon … World Series of Backgammon Video … Gus Hansen v Sander Lylloff World Series of Backgammon (“WSOB”) is a televised, high stakes backgammon tour founded in 2006 by television producer and backgammon player, Andy Bell. Season I launched in 2006 with… Continue reading
Cardplayer.com Michael Phelps (W.S.O.P) Since Phelps’ retirement he has been seen playing cards in London and Las Vegas, where it was reported that he earned $100,000 in a high-stakes cash game. He later denied the report. Phelps has had some cashes on the tournament circuit, however, making a final table… Continue reading
A physicist at Manchester University says games of skill such as poker, chess, and Go are too complex for the human mind to fully understand. Continue reading
The Gamesters : Les Joueurs Emblems of Mortality; The Gamesters Continue reading
The game of sabacc used a deck of seventy-six cards featuring sixty numbered cards divided into four suits, and two copies of eight special cards..
..Shuffle up and Deal… Continue reading
The former professional chess player,won his bracelet in style as the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. final table proved to be a difficult one with pros Stephen Chidwick and David Chiu in the final three. “It was a real see-saw tournament for everybody,” said Schwartz. “The stacks were just going up and down… Continue reading
