20 Years of Online Poker: Poker’s Sonic Boom (2003-2004)

Read MoreThe History on Online Poker (Series)
Tales of Fast Money, Wicked Beats, and Broken Mice:Â
Chapter Three — Poker’s Sonic Boom (2003-2004)

Read MoreThe History on Online Poker (Series)
Tales of Fast Money, Wicked Beats, and Broken Mice:Â
Chapter Three — Poker’s Sonic Boom (2003-2004)

Read MoreTales of Fast Money, Wicked Beats, and Broken Mice:Â
Chapter Two — Flops, Bets, Raises, and Folds (2001-2003)

Read MoreINTRODUCTION (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.

Read MoreThe 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.

Read MoreAnother 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. Â 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.