H. Scot Krause
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Pechanga Resort & Casino in California presents the “Let’s Make a Thrill Super Game Show Promotion” throughout the months of June and July. Pechanga’s patrons have helped the resort/casino become the Four Diamond, top-rated destination it is today and to say “thank you,” the casino is giving its […]
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World Series of Poker
Underdog Jan Sorensen, from Denmark, wins Seven-Card Stud championship
Poker?s popularity is skyrocketing. But it will never be as popular, especially on an international scale, as the game of soccer (what the rest of the world refers to as ?football?). Jan Sorensen grew up in the European tradition, where every young […]
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Hold’em Cowboy: A Joe & Hobby Fiction
I thought I could win the hand with a pair of kings, but when an ace dropped on the river and the tough looking old woman opposite me went all in, I declined to call. A few hands later, she went all in again; this time her kings beat […]
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I will continue analyzing the play of hands after the flop today by looking at two forms of 3 of a kind. There are three ways to make 3 of a kind in Omaha on the flop. First: the flop may contain 3 of the same rank. I will not consider this probability as it […]
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Donna Blevins
You don’t have to wait for summer for poker to heat up in New York State. It’s hot now and getting hotter!
Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, NY, is going even bigger . . . from 22 poker tables to 32. Construction starts after their Third Annual Empire State Hold’em Championship, August 14-21. […]
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Wendeen Eolis
[Editor’s Note: This story is an adaptation of interviews and material that are part of Ms. Eolis’ forthcoming book, Power Poker Dame.]
During the past several weeks, scores of poker players have taken their places on the set of the new poker movie, Lucky You, to participatein a piece of modern poker history. I was […]
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Bobby Dunning
Bobby Dunning left his birth place of Newark, New Jersey in 1964 to attend Gordon Military Academy in Barneville, Georgia. After graduation he entered Gordon’s Junior College to prepare for the University of Georgia. In 1971 Bobby graduated with a BA in Business.
During Bobby’s college days he worked as a bartender to help finance […]
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Byron Liggett
“Las Vegas of the Northwest” is how one visitor described the MUCKLESHOOT Casino, between Tacoma and Seattle. The largest casino in the NW, it is a handsome, modern, spacious property offering more than 70 table games, over 2,000 machine, keno, poker and Big Name entertainment.
Already a NW poker power with a large, luxurious, very […]
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Quinn Do Event #17 Winner
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Quinn Do was two classes short of a degree in criminology at the University of Washington before he left school. He wanted to become a private investigator and his journey through life ended up taking him […]
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Anthony Reategui
Anthony Reategui annihilates final table in No-Limit Hold?em Shootout, and takes $269,100 for first place
If Anthony Reategui ever decides to quit playing poker for a living and start a business, he might consider a career as a demolition man. He flattened a formidable final table lineup in such convincing fashion, that the outcome […]
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