For the last several years, the world’s best chess, checkers, backgammon, and go player has been a computer. And it will almost certainly stay that way forever. But what about poker? Those other games ...

Zynga Poker, one of the longest-running and most popular free-to-play poker games, has officially launched on Steam, opening its virtual tables to PC gamers worldwide. The game, which is well-known ...

WASHINGTON—It may surprise you to learn that it's more difficult for a computer to play poker, perhaps the world's most popular card game, than chess, the pastime of deep thinkers. Unlike chess, poker ...

NEW YORK -- Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold'em -- against a computer. It may be the last chance he gets. Computers ...

For the last several years, the world’s best chess, checkers, backgammon, and go player has been a computer. And it will almost certainly stay that way forever. But what about poker? Those other games ...