The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High
A story of gambling addiction, in seven parts.
A story of gambling addiction, in seven parts.
Jay Caspian Kang The Morning News Oct 2010 Permalink
Henry Orenstein survived three years in concentration camps before creating Transformers and poker cameras.
Abigail Jones Newsweek Dec 2016 25min Permalink
Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Sep 2020 25min Permalink
Three years ago, Seidel began to teach me how to play poker. Why on earth would a professional poker player—the professional poker player—agree to let a random journalist follow him around like an overeager toddler?
Maria Konnikova The Atlantic Jun 2020 Permalink
The hidden history of poker and crypto.
Morgen Peck Breaker Oct 2018 20min Permalink
Live from the World Series of Poker.
Colson Whitehead Grantland Jul 2011 1h15min Permalink
Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.
Brett Forrest ESPN Nov 2015 30min Permalink
The strange, gun-filled life of the “King of Instragram,” a failed NAVY Seal trainee turned poker-playing playboy with an exiled fraudster for a father and two heart attacks already under his belt.
Chris Ayres GQ UK Jan 2015 15min Permalink
How a 26-year-old cocktail waitress ended up running a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood’s highest rollers.
Molly Bloom Vanity Fair Jul 2014 20min Permalink
“On a small scale, Titanic Thompson is an American legend. I say on a small scale, because an overpowering majority of the public has never heard of him. That is the way Titanic likes it. He is a professional gambler. He has sometimes been called the gambler’s gambler.”
John Lardner True Apr 1951 25min Permalink
How the Justice Department killed a $2.5 billion industry.
Chris Parker Village Voice Feb 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Mar 2010 15min Permalink