Two World-class female chess players, Almira Skripchenko and Dinara Khaziyeva, dominated the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in Los Angeles this weekend en route to making the final table.

Prior to this month, Ilia Kitsbabashvili had never had a live tournament cash as high as $8,000. Then he rattled off wins in an a pair of $1,100 prelim events at the WPT Cyprus festival for well over ...