The World Series Of Poker Main Event awarded $8.15 million to 2017 champion Scott Blumstein early yesterday morning. While it had its third-largest field ever, fewer than 3% of Main Event players were women. Worse, according to Norman Chad, there was only one woman under the age of 26, and she wasn’t from the USA. Sad to […]
When I lived in DC in the 1980s and 1990s, the most popular news broadcast on local television belonged to NBC’s WRC-TV-4, with its anchor team of Jim Vance and Doreen Gentzler, sportscaster George Michael, meteorologist Bob Ryan, and entertainment reporter Arch Campbell. Their 11pm newscast often out-rated the primetime shows it had just followed, […]
It’s been nine years since the World Series Of Poker introduced a new concept called The November Nine, in which the Main Event stopped play in July when it got down to the final table, then resumed four months later. But as of today, the November Nine is no more. The WSOP has announced that, […]
Another in a continuing, occasional series of poker stories I’ve witnessed or heard through the years. You’ll find more here. Many times, when a poker player loses a hand, he’ll say to his opponent, “Good hand.” He doesn’t mean it as a compliment, of course. It just sounds better than a string of curses related […]
The Hard Rock Casino is Las Vegas is closing its poker room. It was never one of the most popular places to play (it was off the strip, and there was always more action at Bellagio, Aria, Venetian, Wynn, etc.), but I had a few good experiences there back in 2008-9, when it was called […]
If you watch “Poker Night In America” on CBS Sports Network, you might have caught a glimpse of me on Monday night when they aired a show that was recorded during Thanksgiving weekend 2015 at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. My wife and I happened to be down there for the holiday, so […]