Poker World

We set out to discover the biggest influences in poker and find out that it’s not all about the money or the fame. Find out why.

Emotions drive us into action, and at the same time they can make us act irrationally. The key to becoming a great poker player is not to eliminate emotions, but to learn to find the right balance between emotional thinking and logical thinking.

China has a problem brewing. Nuclear winter won't decimate the country; it's the rising number of unmarried youngsters.

China's Communist Youth League (CYL), the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Health and Family Planning are taking action. A new guideline issued by the triumvirate plans to host blind date matchmaking events, the first of which have attracted over 5,000 willing participants. The guidelines suggest a civilised, healthy and rational concept of love and marriage is the key to China's future.

Lodden Thinks is the brainchild of poker pros Phil Laak and Antonio Esfandiari – born out of boredom at the poker table. Learn how to play it here.

Maybe this is why so many celebrities choose it as their favourite pastime? Fed up with the fake fur and Sneaky Pete's of the world, perhaps the poker table is the only place they can exist without the mask.