For Cyndy Violette, poker has been more than a 20-year odyssey. From the pit in Binion's Horseshoe to Benny's Bullpen and World Series of Poker fame, she came up in the poker world at a time when the ...

James McManus 436 pages Picador Writer James McManus ventured out to Las Vegas four years ago with the intention of covering the World Series of Poker, the success of female players in a man’s game ...

In May 2000, James McManus was hired by Harper's to write a magazine story about women in poker. Despite being an amateur poker player, he taught himself how to play no-limit hold'em on a computer ...

It's a safe bet that no one at Harper's expected novelist McManus, who the magazine sent to Las Vegas to cover the 2000 World Series of Poker, to parlay his advance into chips and play his way into ...

Nominations for the Poker Hall of Fame have officially opened today and will remain open through Dec. 11 at WSOP.com/PHOF. All poker enthusiasts across the country ...

What they're saying about "Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs and Binion's World Series of Poker": New York Times:" 'Positively Fifth Street,' an exhilarating chronicle of the 2000 World ...

Anyone who has ever gambled realizes that partaking in such activities, especially one like poker, will have its ups and downs. However, over the next few days, the sport of poker and the term "ups ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Bally's Las Vegas has announced it will host the inaugural “Back in Action” poker tournament series from Nov. 13 to Nov. 22. “Back in Action,” the first poker tournament to be ...