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...Backgammon is a complex game — the inscrutable triangles, the combinatorial mathematics, the doubling cube — and has thus far failed, though it richly deserves it, to secure the primetime audience of poker...
...This new poker boom is retrospective, with an eye to recapturing something lost. And it’s not just huge poker tournaments....
...So Mr Orbán, enough of playing poker. Enough of the grandstanding. It’s time to return to your league before it’s too late....
...Poker Face, an irresistible new “case-of-the-week” comedy, invites us to sit back and enjoy the ride as it follows an amiable drifter solving crimes across America’s highways and hinterlands....
...Smitten at first sight by this poker-faced social gadfly — played by Odin Lund Biron as lofty, contemptuous and stiff — the young Antonina (Alyona Mikhailova) essentially stalks her man towards marriage....
...The Gambling Commission, the UK’s gaming regulator, fined Kindred £7.1mn last year for failing to identify and protect potential problem gamblers using its 32Red poker site....
...These rules can vary a great deal; poker offers a vast collection of rewarding variants, and Monopoly is often played according to house rules....
...Grab some playing pieces and choose between snakes and ladders, chess, backgammon and poker....
...And in time, we come to grasp the tiny gradations of mood in the movie’s poker face....
...Since interest rates began climbing in 2021, infrastructure asset managers and governments have been playing high-stakes poker....
...The mystery isn’t too intricate, and the human-polygraph conceit is not that original, having been central to two TV series of recent memory, Lie to Me and Poker Face....
...Special credit falls to Hozier’s poker face through some highly creative heckles. “You’re gonna turn me straight!”...
...His master’s reward for his heroism is to give him the chance to win his freedom in a single hand of poker....
...Whether you like Brown or loathe him, you would enjoy playing poker against him. People say he’s more relaxed now. Such things are relative. He wears no tie with his suit....
...The mercurial billionaire Ergen — a former professional poker player, now in his 70s — has sparked furore among creditors of EchoStar, Dish’s parent company, with a highly choreographed series of manoeuvres...
...As one of the people involved in the conversations put it: “This is a poker game.”...
...The start of jury selection coincides with the publication of a long-awaited book about Bankman-Fried by Michael Lewis, the author of works about Wall Street and finance including Liar’s Poker, Flash Boys...
...Perhaps the most influential and amusing portrait of raucous traders was Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (1989), his memoir of the heyday of Salomon Brothers....
...On Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the US Poker Face Rian Johnson’s delightful pastiche of 1970s detective shows delivered murder most fun....
...Kirkland’s ruthless emphasis on profits and blockbuster pay packages spawned an internal culture that readers of Liar’s Poker might recognise....
...I see this as part of this poker game,” Morawiecki said....
From Oliver MacArthur, London N7, UK
...This game of liar’s poker illustrates the incapacity of the EU to rise to the challenge that lies on its southern frontier....
...As played with a cast-iron poker face by Benedetta Porcaroli, the twentysomething of the title is from a well-to-do family, her wilful lack of social life a constant cause of exasperation to her mother....
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