Bryan Schultz Wins Harvey’s Lake Tahoe’s Main Event Championship
Chicago’s Bryan Schultz flew 2,000 miles to book his first major tournament win at the World Series of Poker circuit main event at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe in Northern Nevada, outlasting 326 other players...
View ArticleThis Week’s Report on Politics ‘n Poker: Clashing Cymbals and Snare Drums
By Wendeen H. Eolis Since the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006, US facing online poker companies knew that the United States Department of Justice would not...
View ArticleThe EV Corner: Mistakes Aren’t Always What They Seem
by Tony Guerrera IGT has a heads-up limit bot that can be found now on many casino floors in Las Vegas (most of the time, you’ll find a bank near the poker room). I’ve witnessed some obvious mistakes...
View ArticlePoker Player Moves Offices
After being located for more than a decade at the Hollywood Park Casino, where Poker Player’s offices overlooked the race track, the management of Hollywood Park decided to remove those tenants...
View ArticlePoker and Joe Barton
by I. Nelson Rose “If you don’t know who the sucker is at the poker table, it’s you.” —Poker Proverb Joe Barton does not believe in science. He doesn’t even believe in facts. He is a typical Tea Party...
View ArticleThe Cropsey Maniac
by Lou Krieger When I was a about ten or eleven, I was lucky enough to spend a month at a sleep-away summer camp for underprivileged kids sponsored by the Rotary Club. It got me out of Brooklyn and...
View ArticlePoker in Colorado, PART 2 OF 2: Central City and Cripple Creek
by Ashley Adams Part I of this article covered my trip to the Colorado town of Black Hawk and its five poker rooms. [Read Poker in Colorado, PART 1 OF 2 now] My trip continues with the adventure in...
View ArticleMore About the Claude Pepper Seniors Poker Group... PART 2
by George Epstein More About the Claude Pepper Seniors Poker Group... PART 2 Last issue, we discussed the start and rapid growth of the Claude Pepper Seniors Poker Group. Today, it is almost certanly...
View ArticlePay it Sideways
by Barbara Connors Not all battlefields are created equal. The combatants who come to a poker tournament hoping for fortune and glory must consider the landscape before deciding on a battle plan. In...
View ArticleJonestown Kool-Aid, Lemmings, and the Prevent Defense
by Roger Rodd“Never before in the field of poker conflict, has so much been written, by so many, for so few who are capable of discerning its value.” —Roger Rodd paraphrasing a near plagiarism of...
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