Phil Hellmuth, “Poker Brat”
Phil Hellmuth is probably the most famous poker player in the world. He holds the record for the most championship bracelets at the World Series Of Poker (14, including the Main Event in 1989 and the Main Event of the WSOP Europe in 2012) as well as the most final...
Worth A Link
This is the kind of story that makes more people want to play craps. Now the idiot anti-vaxxers won't even allow their dogs to get the shots they need. When police retrieved a stolen car, instead of giving it back to the owner, they put it up for auction.
Poker Problems
The World Series Of Poker Main Event awarded $8.15 million to 2017 champion Scott Blumstein early yesterday morning. While it had its third-largest field ever, fewer than 3% of Main Event players were women. Worse, according to Norman Chad, there was...
Random Thoughts
When I lived in DC in the 1980s and 1990s, the most popular news broadcast on local television belonged to NBC's WRC-TV-4, with its anchor team of Jim Vance and Doreen Gentzler, sportscaster George Michael, meteorologist Bob Ryan, and entertainment reporter Arch...
No More November Nine
It's been nine years since the World Series Of Poker introduced a new concept called The November Nine, in which the Main Event stopped play in July when it got down to the final table, then resumed four months later. But as of today, the November Nine is no more. The...
Poker Stories: Dumb Things Said At The Card Table
Another in a continuing, occasional series of poker stories I've witnessed or heard through the years. You'll find more here. Many times, when a poker player loses a hand, he'll say to his opponent, "Good hand." He doesn't mean it as a compliment, of course. It just...
No More Hard Rock Poker
The Hard Rock Casino is Las Vegas is closing its poker room. It was never one of the most popular places to play (it was off the strip, and there was always more action at Bellagio, Aria, Venetian, Wynn, etc.), but I had a few good experiences there back in 2008-9,...
My Poker Night In America
If you watch "Poker Night In America" on CBS Sports Network, you might have caught a glimpse of me on Monday night when they aired a show that was recorded during Thanksgiving weekend 2015 at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. My wife and I happened to be...