My friend Nolan Dalla’s recap of the remarkable chip-and-a-chair victory of Benjamin Keeline, who picked up a cool million dollars for winning the World Series Of Poker’s Colossus II tournament a couple of days ago: When one considers the vast number of entries in this tournament, a whopping 21,613 players, the challenge becomes mind-boggling. It’s […]
When my Final Table Poker Radio show ended in 2012, Howard Lederer hadn’t apologized for the Full Tilt Poker debacle, which left millions of poker players hanging. Now he has, via Daniel Negreanu, who offers his thoughts, as well. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting to hear similar words from Lederer’s sister, Annie Duke, for her role […]
If you lend a poker player $20,000, you will always get your money back. But if you lend him $20, you’ll never see it again. That truism popped into my head the other night when several people around the table started talking about lending money to other poker players. Over the years, I have lent […]
“Poker players who chase straights and flushes arrive in limos but go home in buses.” — Anonymous I heard two poker road trip stories this week that I have to share with you, both about players who are way too tight with their money. I have changed the names to protect the cheapskates. One of […]
In my occasional series of poker stories, here’s a piece I wrote on September 21, 2004… Just back from a quick vacation in Vegas with a few stories that aren’t going to stay there. My brother-in-law, Stuart, and I were there for our annual poker-and-football weekend, in which we played in several no-limit Texas Hold’em […]
I know several very talented female poker players, but unfortunately, they are a rarity. Wherever I go, there’s seldom a woman at the table, and if there is, she’s up against 8 or 9 men. Even in the main event of the World Series Of Poker, women average only 3% of the field — and […]