There are more women’s groups in the poker community than at any other time in the game’s history. The number of women in live tournament poker may only increase by relatively small percentages each ...

Poker has always produced compelling personalities, people who carry pressure well, think fast, and project confidence under the most uncomfortable conditions. For decades, the World Series of ...

Poker is a woman’s game. New York Times best-selling author Maria Konnikova may have been the first to say this because, well, poker has almost always been a man’s game. There have been some ...

Ladies looking for their next event should check out Card Player’s Women In Poker page. Find information about every known upcoming ladies event, as well as details about past tournaments and winners.

The cards shuffled, the chips clicked, and a faint scent of stale beer hung in the air. Sunglasses and tilted hats obscured the faces of the men around the table—this was not a room where women were ...

Ladies looking for their next event should check out Card Player’s Women In Poker page. Find information about every upcoming ladies event, as well as details about past tournaments and winners. Get ...

Some women are building their confidence and career success at a surprising locale: a poker table. With its (at times) high-stakes, high-reward nature, the game of poker has helped train some women to ...

You’re the only woman at the poker table. The attention turns to you to make your next move. At that moment you ask yourself, ‘What’s my next play?’ ‘How aggressive should I be?’ ‘What am I willing to ...

Erin Lydon is president of Poker Power, an organization with the goal of teaching 1 million women and girls around the world how to play the game. She joined Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal to talk about ...

About 100 Bowdoin students, staff, and alumni recently spent an evening in Main Lounge playing poker. The point was not to pile up chips (though that was fun for the winners), but rather to become ...

Hours after the markets had closed, I was at the New York Stock Exchange learning how to play poker. Since no one at my table had ever played before, we did a practice round where we showed our hands.

Poker is a complex game and can be easy to misunderstand, especially for beginners. A casual viewer can see the cards and the final bet, but still miss the human work underneath it: memory, timing, ...