Poker players from Wyoming

After winning $133,000 at the World Series of Poker last year, Richard Dixon is back in Vegas gunning for a bracelet.

In honor of the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event, which kicks off this weekend in Las Vegas, here's a look back at the only Wyoming native to ever win a WSOP bracelet. Joe Cassidy was born and raised in Cheyenne. He still comes home every year to visit friends and family...

Richard Dixon is one of the best poker players in Wyoming. This weekend at the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, his $10,000 seat will be staked by one of the best players in the world. Dixon recently won an online contest hosted by  Daniel "Kid Poker" Negreanu...

Wyoming's love affair with poker began before it became a state. When the railroad first arrived in the late 1860s, gambling was considered an honorable profession. Many famous figures from the wild west plied their trade in card rooms across the Cowboy State, including Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok...