For over a decade, Mike Sexton has proudly announced on the World Poker Tour broadcast that No Limit Texas Hold’em is a game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master. Only the very dedicated individuals have…

Pai Gow Poker is a relatively modern game, invented in the 1980s for one to six participants and a Dealer. The game uses a special 53-card deck—the standard 52-card poker deck to which a Joker has been added as a…

With only three cards in each hand, Three Card Poker is an easy game to learn and play. It resembles Blackjack in that each player is dealt a hand to compete directly against the Dealer, who holds the Banker hand.…

Gaming equipment providers are always trying to come up with new table games, and one of the more recent innovations to appear in casinos is Four Card Poker. This new poker variation is the brainchild of Roger Snow, who joined…

The history of poker goes back as far as the early 1800’s. It became synonymous with the old west and eventually made its way to Las Vegas, spreading throughout America when the World Series of Poker kicked off in 1970.…

The hour was late when a small, duplicitous group of guileful politicians took advantage of the shroud of night to gather in the desolate halls of congress with a single, premeditated purpose – to covertly approve a mysterious bill that…

On August 22, 2008, the Excalibur Hotel Casino in Las Vegas undertook an ambitious experiment. Management removed all of the live action tables in their Poker Room and replaced them with machines—a dozen electronic PokerPro® tables for dealer-free play. Manufactured…