Linton Besser explores Australia's campaign to lure overseas gamblers, and the consequences of that policy. Building casinos may be a lucrative business. The industry here is estimated to be producing about five billion dollars a year. Most of that money comes from average Australians, but businesses that operate casinos are...
Jean-Robert Bellande is among the high stakes poker community's most beloved participants. Bellande's fame exploded as a contestant on Survivor's fifteenth season: Survivor China. He talks here about playing the highest stakes without a bankroll, his history and life purpose.
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Cheaters have always been drawn to Las Vegas, but these are some of the most bold and infamous offenders to con their way into easy money, from counterfeiting casino chips to bike banding stealing money and gunpoint chips.
This talk offers a high-level overview of Libratus, the first AI in no-limit poker to beat top humans. In 2017, a paper about AI was published in Science. Read more about The Brains vs. AI Challenge
The two phenomena of online high stakes poker were Tom Dwan and Isildur1 a.k.a Viktor Blom 10 years ago. Back in the days of Full Tilt Poker, people used to wait in nosebleed stakes to see both durrrr and isildur1 play as high as $500/$1000 blinds.
In the live and online poker world, there have been many poker scams, scandals and controversies so far. While we all enjoy hearing about the latest tournament winners or the latest developments in the game, poker world scandals seem to get the greatest overall coverage.
Frank Cullotta was an American mobster who lived from december 14, 1938 to august 20, 2020. With friend and mobster Tony Spilotro(Nicky Santoro), he operated for the Chicago Outfit and was a member of the Hole in the Wall Gang robbery ring in Las Vegas. After his arrest in 1982, he...
If you're going to cheat in a card game... make sure you don't do it in Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's club. Sammy is an former American gangster who has been the Gambino crime family's underboss. Gravano played a significant role in helping the prosecution sentence John Gotti, the leader of the...
In the Philippines, we investigate the inner workings of human trafficking syndicates that trick Chinese nationals into illegally entering the country to work in online gambling businesses. Runaways are apprehended, beaten, and ransomed for large sums of money. The Philippines Senate investigates these internet gambling organizations' illicit activities and finds a...
