Breaking News from the 2005 WSOP

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]

No sooner than the plane touched down on the tarmac at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, my mobile phoneis afire with messages from players at the 2005 World Series of Poker. Record […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 7 Wrap

Greg ‘Fossilman’ Raymer seeks back to back championships.
[Visit the Photo Gallery, 2005 World Series of Poker Results and the WSOP Top Money Finishers. Our WSOP writer is live blogging the WSOP on his poker blog, Tao of Poker]

Mike Matusow ended the day as the chipleader at the World Series of Poker as the field […]

A Visit with Kathy Liebert: Part 3

Susie Isaacs
In the last two issues of Poker Player we followed the career of poker superstar Kathy Liebert from Dun and Bradstreet to the green felt. We left off just as she had met 1990 World Poker Champion Mansour Matloubi.

Susie Isaacs: I feel as if we just started a new chapter. Please continue.
Kathy Liebert: He […]

O’Flaherty’s Folly

Richard Burke
Years ago the casinos called it Racehorse Keno, and I suppose some still do. We call the game Keno at my local casino. Anyway, on a Friday afternoon in spring Patrick O’Flaherty, a middle-aged Dubliner on holiday, sat on my left at my $4-8 Hold’Em game. He had signed up for all the larger-stake […]