Coverage of the final table of the World Series Of Poker Main Event began last night on ESPN. The six members of the November Nine who are still standing will return tonight to play down to the final three, who will complete the competition for the $7.7 million first prize tomorrow night. ESPN is again […]
Anyone else notice that the first 3-bet at the WSOP Main Event Final Table tonight was The Buffalo? Neil Blumenfeld made the move with the Q8 of clubs and took it down. Later, on hand #55, Max Steinberg played it (Q8 off-suit) against Joe McKeehan’s ace-five and won a decent pot on a QQTAK board. […]
I’ve met many poker players who will always put chips into a pot with a certain hand. I’m not talking about pocket aces or kings, but some odd combination of cards that they’ve decided is their “favorite hand.” It means something to them because they won a tournament with it, or it’s their birthday, or […]
I had my first experience with Uber last month in New York. I was visiting my daughter at her apartment, and we were headed to my hotel, but the rain was pouring down. Not only would we get soaked while walking a couple of blocks to a street where we could hail a cab, it […]
Another in my occasional series of poker stories… When I started playing poker in St. Louis in 1999, I played in middle-limit stud games, but was quickly drawn to the most popular variant in town — limit hold’em. There were games practically every night, with the biggest having blinds of $20-40 or $15-30, both with […]
Here’s my conversation with Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, writer/directors of “Mississippi Grind,” the gamblers-on-the-road movie that I appear in, along with stars Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, and Sienna Miller. We talked about: why they used me in the film; how I first met them and told them some poker stories they incorporated into the […]