Poker
Hold'em hands and the long stories behind famous pots. Written for players who want the edge that only study gives.
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- 31
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- Ifeoma Nwosu
- Last filed
- 27-08-2026
How Texas Hold'em Conquered the World of Poker
Texas Hold'em arrived in Las Vegas in the 1960s. By the 2000s, it had displaced every other poker variant. The story is one of simplicity and television.
Tom Dwan: The Mystery of Durrrr's Biggest Online Pots
Tom Dwan was a poker player famous for online poker. Durrrr was his screen name. He played for massive stakes. Then he disappeared.
Decentralized Poker: Can Blockchain Replace Traditional Poker Rooms?
I spent three years in underground poker rooms. Now casinos are being replaced by smart contracts. It's not the same game.
How Online Poker Sites Keep Games Fair
The games are fair. The rake still grinds you. Stop blaming the RNG when your 3-bet range is upside down and you haven't studied a spot since 2019.
How Texas Hold'em Conquered the World of Poker
From a single smoky room in Robstown, Texas, to the nightly traffic of PokerStars, the story of how one variant crowded out all the others is a study in how games spread and why some become canonical.
Live Poker Etiquette: 15 Rules Every New Player Should Know
Live poker etiquette is a system of small signals that keep 90 hands per hour running smoothly. The rules are not arbitrary. Each one prevents a specific failure mode at the table.
Decentralized Poker: Can Blockchain Replace Traditional Poker Rooms?
For two years I watched a blockchain poker room grow from a Discord server of forty regulars to a nightly cash game with real volume. What the players did not say tells you more than what they did.