The World Poker Tour Walk of Fame is designed to honor those poker players who have played the game well at the highest levels as well as those who have promoted the spread of it through film, television, and literature. It was started in 2004.In February 2004, The World Poker Tour Walk [...]

The Poker Hall of Fame is a group of poker players who have played poker well against top competition for high stakes over a long period of time. Originally established by the Horseshoe Casino, membership is now awarded by Harrah’s World Series of Poker.Members of the Poker Hall of Fame include [...]

The game of poker (or at least most of the variants) is considered to be computationally intractable. However, methods are being developed to at least approximate perfect strategy from the combinatorial game theory perspective in the heads-up (two player) game, and increasingly good systems are being created for the multi-player or [...]

The MIT Blackjack Team, as the name suggests, was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who attempted to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century.
The plan and operation
Blackjack gives the house a low statistical [...]

* 1967—Tim Holland, United States
* 1968—Tim Holland, United States
* 1969— no championships held
* 1970— no championships held
* 1971—Tim Holland, United States
* 1972—Oswald Jacoby, United States
* 1973—Carol Crawford, United States (first female champion)
* 1974—Claude Beer, United States
* 1975—Billy Eisenberg, United States
* 1976—Baron Vernon Ball, United States
* 1977—Ken Goodman, United States
* 1978—Paul “X-22″ Magriel, United States
* [...]