By Victoria Coren, The Guardian If Zinedine Zidane played online poker, he would never have headbutted Materazzi for a comment as harmless as "Your mother is a terrorist whore". Relative to the chat-boxes on some gaming sites, that remark...

by Victoria Coren, The Guardian.co.uk When it comes to poker literature, there are three basic types. The first type (which is what people usually want when they ask me for reading tips) is the strategy book. The problem is, most of the volumes that ...

half bet rule In some casinos, the rule that placing chips equal to or greater than half the normal bet amount beyond the amount required to call constitutes a commitment to raise the normal amount. For example, in a game with a $4 fixed limit, a ...

(by Joshua Heilpern) Until you become a consistent winning online poker player, your main concern should be developing a strong set of starting hand standards and learning how to play those cards properly. However, once you reach the next level of y...

The history of poker is a matter of some debate. The name of the game likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to knock'), but it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing th...