Those of us who spend most of our time at the poker tables always find it curious whenever we look up from our cards long enough to notice some "mainstream" reporting about our favorite game.
Probably the most conspicuous recent examples were articles about the "Brains vs. AI" match that concluded at the end of January. Reports on the 20-day no-limit hold'em match in which Carnegie Mellon University's artificial intelligence computer program Libratus beat a team of pros appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Time, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Wired and a host of other newspapers and magazines.