From the Pool to the Phelt

Just in case you've been entombed in an underground bunker (or stuck in a poker game) for the past few months, you may have missed what happened at the Olympics this year. A young man named Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals to go with the six he already had. So, what does a...

Friday Oct 31, 2008

published 22 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 21

China

I just got back from my first trip to China, for the Asian Poker Tour (APT). The tournament was held in Macau, but we stopped off in Hong Kong for a few days to do a little sightseeing. What did we see? Not a whole heck of a lot. I was traveling with two godfathers - my dad, the "Godfather...

Friday Oct 17, 2008

published about 1 month ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 20

The Main Freakin' Event - Part II

We left off in my last column with an Internet kid laying a bad beat on another guy, boosting his stack close to a hundred thousand. And he didn't let this new stack sit idle, as he put it to work. He was raising or reraising most every hand, while I hid and waited. "Internet Kid"...

Friday Oct 03, 2008

published about 1 month ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 19

The Main Freakin' Event

I wanted to put this unfortunate incident behind me, as I'm tired of telling the story over and over. Therefore, I'm going to relive this nightmare one more time, in my next two columns. You may have been able to tell by my tone thus far that I am less than pleased with the outcome of the...

Thursday Sep 18, 2008

published 2 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 18

The 2008 World Series of Poker

I had high hopes for the World Series this year. I've been running fairly salty in tournaments for the past year, and figured it was about time that my luck changed. I figured wrong. Things started out all right. I finished 292nd out of a huge field in the first $1,500 no-limit hold'em...

Thursday Sep 11, 2008

published 2 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 17

The Real Deal!

I ended my last column by talking about how great my life is. If your life isn't great, I'm sorry, and please don't hate me. But … my life just got a lot better with the announcement of The Real Deal! by The Venetian Hotel and Casino. I've actually been planning for the...

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