You can feel the tension around the table. Stakes are high, and each person is analyzing everyone else’s most minute cues — a cough here, eyes shifting there — to guess at what they’re concealing and ...

This December, Las Vegas will once again host a week of poker tournaments geared toward female players. The Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) and Women in Poker organization have announced ...

The Ladies International Poker Series, otherwise known as LIPS, has had a mission to create venues for women to learn and excel in the game of poker through education, tournament play, and social ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Poker nights are supposed to be lighthearted, but sometimes the real stakes aren’t on the table. A woman found herself blindsided when her boyfriend revealed her whole hand, turning her winning moment ...

The lucky winner said she is taking a trip to Florida after matching all five cards playing the Michigan Lottery's Poker ...