Anthony Holden is the author of the poker classics Big Deal and Bigger Deal, as well as a strategy manual, Holden on Hold’em. An award-winning journalist and author, Holden has also written biographies of figures from Shakespeare to Tchaikovsky, Laurence Olivier to Prince Charles, and romantic poet Leigh Hunt to Mozart’s librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Is Poker as Intellectual as Chess

Is Poker as Intellectual as Chess?

As the 40th-annual World Series of Poker approaches its climax, a grassroots campaign aims to shake poker's unsavory ...

Posted 4:58 PM | Jul 16, 2009
Poker Returns to the White House

Poker Returns to the White House

Barack Obama's hidden talent: He's a top-notch poker player. Thank goodness-he'll need it. Among the countless bless...

Posted 9:02 AM | Nov 6, 2008