Martin Harris contributor reviews and evergreen content to Legal Sports Report. He lives in North Carolina and has reported on poker,
gambling, and sports betting for various outlets since the mid-2000s. His career includes extensive experience
reporting on online poker and from numerous poker tours, including from the World Series of Poker, the World Poker
Tour, the European Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour, and the Asian Pacific Poker Tour.
Martin has an English Ph.D. (Indiana University) and has taught full- or part-time at multiple colleges and
universities since the 1990s. He teaches courses on poker, politics, and film in the American Studies
program at UNC Charlotte.
In 2019, Martin’s book Poker & Pop Culture was published by D&B Books. The book covers the history
of poker in the United States with special emphasis on the game’s depiction in literature, film, music, and other
mainstream contexts. In 2020 the book won a Global Poker Award for Written Media Content of the Year.
