The Early Years of the Atlantic City Poker Scene

Poker’s legalization in Atlantic City changed many lives, including mine.
It wasn’t so long ago that every Hold’em player on the East Coast knew each other.
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Poker’s legalization in Atlantic City changed many lives, including mine.
It wasn’t so long ago that every Hold’em player on the East Coast knew each other.
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Read MoreThe first season of “Poker Night in America” has now concluded, with another year of new programs soon shifting to Monday nights. What follows is my look back on the first season of broadcasts, including some of my fondest memories and biggest disappointments of 2014.

Read MoreIn her utterly embarrassing and thoroughly discredited appearance on Mike Huckabee’s FOX News program earlier this week, former Sen. Blanche Lincoln made our task way too easy. The former senator from Arkansas made so many inaccurate statements and committed such a multitude of factual blunders that conspiracy theorists might reasonably suspect she’s actually a plant working for the other side. She was that bad.
Read MoreLike a fine wine, sometimes a true champion in every sense of the word materializes not in a flash of victory but instead following more than a decade of deeper reflection.

Read MoreOne of the most intriguing World Series of Poker championship final tables I’ve ever covered has come to an end.