Nigeria: Playing Poker with Public Health by Oyewale Tomori

“…A poor poker player bets and bluffs without skill. This write up describes Nigeria’s approach to public health as more of bluff and gamble than skill, a very good example of a very poor poker player. …”
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Computing Human-Understandable Strategies: Deducing Fundamental Rules of Poker Strategy by Sam Ganzfried, Farzana Yusuf

“…For example, a human poker player or military leader may not have access to large precomputed tables when making real-time strategic decisions. …”
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Cefaleas catastróficas by David Ezpeleta

“…Este trabajo presenta un somero pero comprometido análisis de algunos de los principales motivos de cefalea catastrófica y pretende sensibilizar al lector sobre la importancia del dolor de cabeza como motivo de consulta y la delgada línea que puede separar lo banal de lo grave, el protocolo del arte y saber poco de saber demasiado Abstract: Headache is like a poker player that often hides an ace up its sleeve. Sometimes because of the cruelty of the cause, other times because of misfortune and still others because of clinician error or the various steps involved in accessing healthcare, there are processes that manifest as isolated events or mainly as headache and whose consequences may be catastrophic. …”
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Once online poker, always online poker? Poker modality trajectories over two years by Magali Dufour, Adèle Morvannou, Émélie Laverdière, Natacha Brunelle, Sylvia Kairouz, Marc-Antoine Nolin, Louise Nadeau, Frédéric Dussault, Djamal Berbiche

“…The development of many online gambling sites has raised public health concerns about the potential increase in online poker players. Longitudinal studies are useful to better understand the evolution of gambling behaviors; however, very few consider online poker players. …”
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Neural correlates of proactive and reactive motor response inhibition of gambling stimuli in frequent gamblers by D. Brevers, Q. He, B. Keller, X. Noël, A. Bechara

“…Brain imaging analyses highlighted higher dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activation in poker players, as compared to controls, during reactive inhibition. …”
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“It Always Depends on the Context” by Adèle Morvannou, Eva Monson, Marianne Saint-Jacques, Vincent Wagner, Valérie Aubut, Natacha Brunelle, Magali Dufour

“…The current study explores poker players’ perceptions of the relationship between substance use and gambling. …”
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La métaphore ludique chez les joueurs de poker : le jeu de la négociation marchande by Aymeric Brody

“…Based on the interviews of two poker players, this article analyzes the use of a metaphor that leads to consider gambling as a trade negotiation rather than a play form. …”
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Effect of valenced vicarious online contact on out-group prejudice and perceived out-group variability: A study of online poker by Andrews, N, Yogeeswaran, K, Walker, M, Hewstone, M

“…Online poker has become a multibillion dollar industry, with millions of people from around the world both playing and watching online poker each year. Unlike live poker, players and watchers, typically cannot rely on physical cues of other players; in fact, the only information often available to poker players is others’ nationality. …”

After dark by Ho, Sie Sie, Ong, Christopher Yi Xiang, Quah, Chin Chin, Ang, Rachel Judith Yin Chien

“…After Dark is a 16-page newsletter that delves into the alternative night activities in Singapore – from the secret gambling dens of poker players and homes of party people, to the lives of prostitutes and transvestites and the activities of motor enthusiasts. …”
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Beyond chance? The persistence of performance in online poker. by Rogier J D Potter van Loon, Martijn J van den Assem, Dennie van Dolder

“…To inform this debate we present an analysis into the role of skill in the performance of online poker players, using a large database with hundreds of millions of player-hand observations from real money ring games at three different stakes levels. …”
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Sleep or Play Online Poker?: Gambling Behaviors and Tilt Symptoms While Sleep Deprived by Alexandre Hamel, Célyne Bastien, Christian Jacques, Axelle Moreau, Isabelle Giroux

“…Sleeping habits, tilt symptoms, and online poker behaviors of 23 regular online poker players (22 men, 1 woman) were monitored daily for 28 days using questionnaires and hand histories. …”
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Pocket Queens by Julie Rak

“…Understanding women’s poker stories within this framework can bring depth and breadth to the representation of female poker players in popular journalism, which generally characterizes female players as objects or accessories for male players.  …”
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"To Bluff like a Man or Fold like a Girl?" - Gender Biased Deceptive Behavior in Online Poker. by Jussi Palomäki, Jeff Yan, David Modic, Michael Laakasuo

“…Thus, gender effects in bluffing have significant monetary consequences for poker players.…”
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From pathological to professional: gambling stories by Andrada-Mihaela Istrate

“…My research is centered on how poker players make professional claims and the way they justify poker playing as a profession. …”
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The specificity of attentional biases by type of gambling: An eye-tracking study. by Daniel S McGrath, Amadeus Meitner, Christopher R Sears

“…Three groups of participants (poker players, video lottery terminal/slot machine players, and non-gambling controls) took part in one test session in which they viewed 25 sets of four images (poker, VLTs/slot machines, bingo, and board games). …”
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