Poker Game Show: A Joe and Hobby Fiction

Poker Game Show
“Joe, guess what?”

“C’mon, Hobby. I don’t like guessing games. Why don’t you just say what you have in mind.”

“Okay. It’s about my friend Bailey Mack, the TV producer I fixed you up with to sell one of your poker stories (Payback, Poker Player Magazine, Jan. 24, 2005).

“I remember that mess. I told him […]

A Tournament Hand From a Final Table Part 2

Sam Mudaro, Omaha Guru
Today I will further analyze my decision to continue to play [Qd] [Qs] [6h] [9d] after a flop of [Jd] [6c] [9d] while my opponent was holding [Js] [2h] [4c] [7d]. Last time we determined I made the correct decision toplay if I put my opponent on a pair of jacks and […]

Reads

Jim McKenna, PhD.
If you know how to read, you won’t have many surprises. This is true in life as well as at the poker table. I was recently working with a 15-year-old young man and his family. He was getting into trouble daily at home, but not at school. It was obvious that he was […]

Joe Hachem of Australia is the new World Champion of Poker

Joe Hachem, Main Event Champion at the World Series of Poker 2005
Joe Hachem of Sydney, Australia outlasted the largest field ever in the history of the World Series of Poker to win his first World Championship. He survived 5,618 other players and earned his first bracelet after a week of grueling poker against the best […]

WSOP Main Event: Making the Final Table

Binion’s Horseshoe hosts the final two days of the WSOP Main Event
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The final three tables of the main event at the World Series […]

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.
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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 […]

World series of Poker Main Event Day 4 Recap

Tiffany Williamson, the last female in the Main event is in the 10 ten in chips going into day 5
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2004 World Series of Poker […]