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Posted by on Feb 13, 2018 in Blog, General Poker | 1 comment

20 Years of Online Poker: Tales of Fast Money, Wicked Beats, and Broken Mice

 

 

INTRODUCTION (A NEW POKER SERIES)

Twenty years ago, the first online poker cash game was dealt.

January 1st, 1998 marked the roll-out of the first real money poker site, at PlanetPoker.com.

The story takes off from there.

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Posted by on Sep 27, 2017 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas | 3 comments

Memories of the Las Vegas Club

 

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The Las Vegas Club in downtown Las Vegas was a smelly armpit of a casino, coated in a mix of disgusting bodily fluids and cheap booze, the dingy carpets dusted in cigarette ash and I adored every sick square sentimental inch of all that rotten residue and loved blowing every dumb dollar I wasted there.  Here’s my recollection of the joy of tackiness.

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Posted by on May 31, 2016 in Blog, General Poker, Personal | 4 comments

Shuffling Up at the 2016 World Series of Poker

 

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Another World Series of Poker begins tomorrow.

Out of the 47 series which have taken place since the first small gathering at the old Binion’s Horseshoe back in 1970, I’ve attended about half of them — at least in some capacity as either a player, writer, or executive.  My first WSOP was in 1985.

For the past 15 years, I’ve worked under the official title of “Media Director,” which has in recent years become something of a nom de plume.  Let’s face it.  The media can’t be directed.  The last thing I have is any control over the media.  It’s like herding cats.

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