In June, I wrote about MGM/Mirage beginning to charge for parking at its properties on the Las Vegas Strip (Bellagio, Aria, Mirage, etc), regardless of whether you park your own car or turn it over to a valet: That’s going to kill business for the rental car companies and the valet parking guys, who have […]
The good thing about watching the Final Table of the World Series Of Poker Main Event: no one’s slow-playing and killing the pace. The bad thing about watching the Final Table of the World Series Of Poker Main Event: there isn’t much banter among the players — and when there is, ESPN doesn’t let us […]
For the first time in many years, I haven’t watched any of ESPN’s coverage of the World Series Of Poker, but several people have told me about one player who got a lot of attention at the event, so I checked out a few clips of him on YouTube. His name is Will Kassouf, an […]
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter was traveling the country for work and was going to end up in Las Vegas. I decided to fly out and meet her so we could spend a few days together, during which I taught her some casino games and how to get free drinks, we walked the […]
Keith Woernle has written some excellent pieces this summer for Part Time Poker with ideas on how to grow poker’s popularity and global appeal. Since he was a producer for the World Poker Tour’s tenth season, many of his thoughts have to do with televised poker, which he thinks should return to showing highlights rather […]
While poker is played by the same basic rules everywhere (e.g. a flush always beats a straight), there are some things that can differ depending on the venue. Here are a few examples: I once played in a no-limit hold’em cash game in Kansas City with $10/20 blinds and a $5 ante. Having the ante […]