The poker cards are still the same, and the betting rounds follow the same order, but everything around those fundamentals has been rebuilt.

For the last several years, the world’s best chess, checkers, backgammon, and go player has been a computer. And it will almost certainly stay that way forever. But what about poker? Those other games ...

Great poker games are widely believed to be a gambling man’s activity – real money is needed if you’re to take part. However, there are plenty of poker video games; a crossover of the two mediums in ...

Poker software used to look like a spreadsheet wearing a green felt hat. The tables were functional, the buttons worked, and ...

Zynga Poker, one of the longest-running and most popular free-to-play poker games, has officially launched on Steam, opening its virtual tables to PC gamers worldwide. The game, which is well-known ...

Scientists have developed an algorithm they say you’ll never, ever, beat in a game of poker. It’s the culmination of more than 10 years of work. The program doesn’t play heads-up limit Texas hold’em ...

NEW YORK -- Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold'em -- against a computer. It may be the last chance he gets. Computers ...