Last week, a bill was introduced in Congress that would make almost all online gambling illegal. I say “almost” because there’s a carve-out for horse racing, which is a vital industry to Kentucky, home state of Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader. But the bill would make online poker and other internet gaming against the […]
Another in my continuing series of poker stories, this was originally published April 2, 2009. The poker table was full of locals who all know each other, except one young guy. Late 20s, maybe 30. Not a top player, but doing okay, up a couple hundred from his $1k buy-in. A few hours into the […]
This story originally appeared on Harris Online on October 8, 2006… Inside the poker room at the Commerce Casino, as long as there are players at the tables, nothing stops the games. They go on 24 hours a day, all year long, and the only non-human sound you hear is the constant clicking, stacking, and […]
About ten years ago, I was at The Orleans in Las Vegas to play a very popular weekly Friday night tournament. The Orleans had a big poker room, but so many people showed up for the tournament that they had to spread tables up a large hallway to accommodate everyone. There were also a lot […]
Another story about a bad beat poker jackpot. When Ameristar/St. Louis had its poker room upstairs, it was a very busy place. One day, there was a bad beat on one of the small-stakes tables, and everyone in the game was going to share in the jackpot. Except for one guy, who jumped up, grabbed […]
As a followup to my poker story about the $430,000 bad beat jackpot, Vito Casucci writes, A side note to the bad beat in St. Louis. I was the manager at Ameristar and we had a jackpot that would get up to $30k or so before being hit. When Harrah’s opened their poker room, they asked […]