Steven Lipscomb, the television producer, started the World Poker Tour in the United States of America. It is a series of international poker tournaments that feature many of the world’s renowned poker players.
In 2002, people saw the first series of the WPT on the television. It was aired in the spring of 2003 on the [...]

Poker has become such a religious game that people have forgotten its fun part. Here are some interesting facts about poker.
Playing cards was introduced in the 1300s in Europe. The first Texas Hold’em was played in 1900s in Texas. A group of Texas gamblers brought the game to Las Vegas. Doyle Brunson is the first [...]

Maybe not a poker player, but yet an important figure in the poker scene. Norman Chad is a well known sportswriter who was born in 1958. Chad is a Cuban from his maternal side. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976.
Norman Chad is also known as one of the best commentator of the [...]

Run is a poker movie made in 1990. Although a few critics have called it as one of the best movies, some of them do not consider it anything great.
In this movie some rare scenes of the game are depicted such as tipping the dealer and waving off a second hand smoke. Patrick Dempsey is [...]

The Sting (1973) is one of the best three poker movies I’ve seen, the movie is set in 1936. It stars Paul Newman, Robert Reford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, John Hefferman, Jack Collins, Lee Paul, and many other actors.
The screenwriter of The Sting was inspired by a real life [...]