Phil Ivey tapped the table twice, rose to his feet, and shook the hand of his opponent, Aleksejs Ponakovs, who had just won a 2022 World Series of Poker gold bracelet. The Latvian poker pro denied ...

It’s not every day you walk into a poker room and end up hiding behind a stack of folding chairs while masked gunmen clear out the casino cage. But that’s exactly what happened when Josh Arieh made ...

Of course, it takes all manner of strategy, mathematic skill, and superhuman facial-expression abilities to even earn a fraction of Ivey's winnings—so we caught up with Ivey in advance of the event.

Sure, the NFL is in full swing, the NBA just reached a particularly chaotic crescendo, and even the MLB hot stove is front-page news (welcome to Los Angeles, Shohei Ohtani!)—but have you checked the ...