In May 2000, James McManus was hired by Harper's to write a magazine story about women in poker. Despite being an amateur poker player, he taught himself how to play no-limit hold'em on a computer ...

It's a safe bet that no one at Harper's expected novelist McManus, who the magazine sent to Las Vegas to cover the 2000 World Series of Poker, to parlay his advance into chips and play his way into ...

Nominations for the Poker Hall of Fame have officially opened today and will remain open through Dec. 11 at WSOP.com/PHOF. All poker enthusiasts across the country ...

Referring to himself as "the opposite of gonzo" in Positively Fifth Street–a sprawling and frequently dazzling account of luck, greed, murder, and sleaze in Sin City–author James McManus notes that ...