Sentences with phrase «of poker in»

Their aim is to spread awareness of Poker in India and showcase India on top of the Poker podium.

It works by treating the elements like a game of poker in which your opponents can't change their hands.

As you play through the various rounds of Poker in either Texas Hold»Em or Omaha, you will accumulate cash which can be used to purchase additional content for the game such as new decks and other fun elements.

Modern poker tournaments did not flourish until the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas took off in the 1970s, launching thousands of how - to books on foolproof poker strategies for amateurs harboring fantasies of beating the pros.

After a few months playing, things were starting to click and I was starting to have good results, a few of the players in the game suggested I go to the World Series of Poker in Vegas.

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It seems like every day there's a new breakthrough in A.I., whether it's a system that consistently renders the same verdict as trial judges or a computer capable of winning millions of dollars from the world's best poker players.

It reminded me of the «blowing your customers up» mentality in perhaps one of the best business books ever written — Liar's Poker — where bond traders celebrated when they bankrupted their first customer.

A poker table in the conference room, free meditation courses, and a fridge that's always full: it's precisely because of such a special working environment that Google is such a sought - after employer.

The forthcoming film Molly's Game, which stars Jessica Chastain and arrives in theaters on Christmas Day, takes moviegoers on a high - stakes trip through the world of underground poker.

I have two young kids and I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to put hot pokers in my eyes because of the shows that they want to watch.

Then I started to think of it in terms of probability, which is when that poker craze happened — at least in Canada — where poker became a thing and people were talking about odds and stuff.

It asks those taking it to rate how likely it is that they would engage in a list of risky behaviors, such as wagering a day's income on a high - stakes poker game, choosing a ski run that's beyond their abilities, or driving without a seatbelt.

So she built one of the biggest and most exclusive poker games in the world — one that included clientele like Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Ben Affleck.

They're only in the sales ring two minutes, but it's a bit of a poker game.»

The item appears in several of Lady Gaga's music videos, from her breakout hit «Just Dance» to «Poker Face» and «Telephone.»

MONTREAL — Amaya Gaming Group announced a jackpot of a deal Friday as the Montreal - based company said it will pay US$ 4.9 billion in cash to buy the world's largest online poker company, operator of popular brands PokerStars and Full Tilt Ppoker company, operator of popular brands PokerStars and Full Tilt PokerPoker.

The Rational Group, based in the low - tax Isle of Man off the coast of Britain, is also a producer of live poker events and poker programming for television and online audiences.

The difficult choices at the poker table are akin to author Ben Horowitz's classic example of executive decision - making in «The Hard Thing About Hard Things.»

In poker, players who are «on tilt» are basically in a death spiral of negative emotionIn poker, players who are «on tilt» are basically in a death spiral of negative emotionin a death spiral of negative emotions.

On April 15, 2011, a day that would later become known as Black Friday in the online poker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scpoker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scpoker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scPoker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scheme.

I've had the privilege of speaking with thousands of entrepreneurs throughout my career, and it didn't take long to notice the same personas from the poker world popping up in my business life.

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A local poker tournament in which 70 players laid down $ 1,000 to enter to win a first prize of $ 27,000.

From poker players to reality TV stars, the world is full of self starters and go getters that we can look up to and find motivation within our own trials and tribulations in our own paths to potential greatness.

That's true when comparing your investments with others», your startup's annual revenue with that of other startups, and of course in poker.

Here's why this is a tougher challenge: In poker a single player gets an incomplete view of the overall game.

The commentator said, «If Hellmuth could pull off a comeback from this place, it would be one of the greatest comebacks in poker history.»

In the finals of Poker Night in America, Dan and I were tied at 1 - alIn the finals of Poker Night in America, Dan and I were tied at 1 - alin America, Dan and I were tied at 1 - all.

I was sitting in our lounge area one day, and I looked up and saw who I thought was one of the world's top poker pros.

That's typical of the successful Internet companies, adapt or die, and definitely true in poker.

Pincus helped create Zynga in 2007 and the company soon gained millions of monthly active users through popular social games played on mobile devices and networks such as Facebook (FB), including FarmVille and Zynga Poker.

China has gazillions of dollars in the bank, and just as in poker, betting against the richest man at the -LSB-...]

A look inside the true story of a high - stakes adventure in the world of underground poker Molly Bloom, Author, Molly's Game Interviewer: Pattie Sellers, Fortune

The $ 5 billion Canadian online poker and gambling giant has emerged with an 80 per cent stake of a combined CrownBet and William Hill corporate bookmaking business that will take on Tabcorp and Sportsbet in the heated battle for Australian punters.

I've tried online poker as a means in the past, and which I learned A) was not passive income but hard work and B) I have an addictive personality which resulted in me losing the 4g I earned in 6 weeks over the span of 72 hours so that's out of the picture.

The Stars Group, which derives most of its revenue from online poker businesses such as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, could use CrownBet management's bookmaking expertise in North America should a wider ban on sports betting be lipoker businesses such as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, could use CrownBet management's bookmaking expertise in North America should a wider ban on sports betting be liPoker, could use CrownBet management's bookmaking expertise in North America should a wider ban on sports betting be lifted.

One example of this process, confusingly, might even be the United States in the 1920s, as Marriner Eccles (the brilliant Federal Reserve chairman under then - president Franklin D. Roosevelt) explained endlessly to an uncomprehending elite: if all the chips at the poker table are held by the same few players, the only way the rest can keep playing with them is to borrow chips, even though in the end they will not be able to repay the loans.

In April, the FBI indicted the owners of the three biggest Internet poker companies, charging them with money laundering, fraud, and illegal gambling offenses.

The name «blue - chip» is said to be a reference to the game of poker, in which the blue - colored chips are worth more than the others.

However, he claims to have won $ 10.8 million in a single night of poker action in 2013, and purportedly pulled down $ 50 million at the felt in 2014.

In 1982 he was playing in the World Series of Poker, having made his third final table of his career (he finished second to legend Johnny Moss in 1971In 1982 he was playing in the World Series of Poker, having made his third final table of his career (he finished second to legend Johnny Moss in 1971in the World Series of Poker, having made his third final table of his career (he finished second to legend Johnny Moss in 1971in 1971).

And while Michael Lewis» «Liar's Poker» had been published and Michael Douglas had won an Oscar for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in «Wall Street,» it wasn't yet cool or sexy or a widespread aspiration to be an investor, an entrepreneur, to attach yourself to an idea or a portfolio of ideas and offer to the world, before anything else, something like your intelligence.

The alternative is love for Christ and his Church, including the tough love of disciplining the wild card in the poker of life that is sexuality.

in a humorous scene Smith debates the meaning of justice around a poker table with his interlocutors Rousseau, Voltaire, Hume and Quesnay.

Among the rough and ready tests of character, this seems a very good one, not infallible but close to it, accounting for the occasional hard day, bad headache, annoying companions: «The way people treat restaurant staff is, I think, a kind of poker tell, revealing a person's character in as long as it takes to say: «I'll have the sea bass».»

Especially here in Texas, I think we can quickly forget that there are a lot of subcultures that reject poker, football, macho attitudes and the like.

According to news reports and conversations with poker organizations, there have been dozens of these raids, in cities such as Baltimore, Charleston, S.C., and Dallas.

When the craze for poker kicked into high gear, a number of police departments responded by deploying SWAT teams to raid games in garages, basements and VFW halls where illegal gambling was suspected.

They were also accused of running a murder - for - hire plot, an illegal poker operation and one last crime, which sounds ripped out of the Sopranos playbook: «trying to convince a female associate to chloroform someone in Atlantic City so he could be robbed.»

And when I was at school I once came across a group of kids playing strip poker in a classroom.