In 2014, I got my hands on a copy of Molly Bloom’s memoir, “Molly’s Game,” about her experiences running high-stakes underground poker games in Los Angeles and New York, drawing celebrity players like Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio — along with several very rich men you probably don’t know, like a billionaire banker named […]
With the movie “Molly’s Game” (starring Jessica Chastain, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin) opening today (listen to my review here), here’s my 2014 conversation with Molly Bloom, the former underground high-stakes poker game organizer, who wrote about her experiences in the book the movie is based on… For several years, Molly Bloom ran the […]
In June, I wrote about playing at the Commerce Casino outside of Los Angeles. A couple of friends read it, heard me say that every poker player should try it at least once, and said they’d like to go with me sometime, so we made the trip this weekend. Commerce continues to offer more games […]
Some friends were surprised to hear that I went to Las Vegas this weekend, only a week after the massacre at Mandalay Bay. They asked if I was worried and had considered cancelling the trip, but I told them no, there was no reason to do so. That would be like refusing to fly anywhere […]
Phil Hellmuth is probably the most famous poker player in the world. He holds the record for the most championship bracelets at the World Series Of Poker (14, including the Main Event in 1989 and the Main Event of the WSOP Europe in 2012) as well as the most final tables and the most cashes. […]
This is the kind of story that makes more people want to play craps. Now the idiot anti-vaxxers won’t even allow their dogs to get the shots they need. When police retrieved a stolen car, instead of giving it back to the owner, they put it up for auction.