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High-stakes poker pro Jason Les is a cash game star, but he just recently had his breakout year at the World Series of Poker. Les final tabled two events this summer, recording a runner-up finish ...
High-stakes poker pro Jason Les is widely regarded as one of the top heads-up no-limit hold’em players in the world, and just this summer he had his breakout year at the World Series of Poker.
Jason Les expected to spend this month in Australia, competing in the Aussie Millions Poker Championship. It’s a good bet the Costa Mesa native would have left the Melbourne tournament a richer ...
Jason Les and Daniel McAulay in the final stretch ... Three-betting, for the uninitiated, is poker slang for reraising on a hand. When you decide to play a hand in a situation like this, paying ...
PITTSBURGH — Twelve days into the strangest poker tournament of their lives, Jason Les and his companions returned to their hotel, browbeaten and exhausted. Huddled over a pile of tacos ...
Then it proceeded to wipe out five human poker champions with one lousy hand. “It [felt] very hopeless. You don’t feel like there’s anything you can do to win,” said Jason Les, who’s ...
Four of the world's best poker players are hanging their heads ... that's been soundly trouncing humans—specifically, Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou, and Daniel McCauley—at Texas Hold ...
Two of those competitors, Dong Kim and Jason Les, returned for this year's tournament. Carnegie Mellon PhD student Noam Brown looks on as the poker professionals play his AI system at poker.
On the other hand, humans are getting better, too, says competitor Jason Les. "From the human side, poker has gotten much tougher in the last 20 months," Les told Carnegie Mellon University ...
$1.2B as of May. Professional poker player from 2004 to 2018. UCI Grad. 10 employees in 2021 while revenue increased eighteen-fold to $213.2M after taking over. QUOTABLE: “I believe bitcoin is the ...