I’ve made it clear that I am no fan of Sheldon Adelson, billionaire bank roller of GOP candidates and efforts to keep online poker illegal in the US. In fact, I no longer patronize any of his casinos because I refuse to give him a penny of my money just to see it used to […]
Here’s my conversation with Doug Swanson about his book, “Blood Aces: The Wild Ride Of Benny Binion, The Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas.” We discussed Benny’s origins in the Lone Star State and why he had to leave, how he set up Binion’s Horseshoe as a place to gamble — not to see shows, and […]
When people ask me which shows they should see in Las Vegas, I always tell them to go to Mac King’s comedy/magic show. He’s onstage for two shows a day, five afternoons a week — yes, afternoons — and not only does clever tricks, but also has the best audience rapport of any magician I’ve […]
Another in my occasional series of poker stories… My friend Nolan Dalla recently wrote a piece about the most thankless job in poker — dealing. As Media Director for the World Series Of Poker, there’s no story Nolan hasn’t heard, and when it’s a complaint about a dealer, he flinches: You think the job’s easy […]
Last night at the poker table, one of the players who saw my link to the story of the guy who entered the wrong World Series Of Poker tournament (in a version of the game he’s never played, but managed to win it nonetheless) told me he’d recently heard of a guy who signed up […]
At the World Series Of Poker, Christian Pham thought he was signing up for a $1,500 no-limit hold’em event. However, because he told the cashier the wrong number for the tournament, he was registered for the $1,500 event in deuce-to-seven single-draw — a game he’d never played before, so he had no idea what proper […]