Diane McHaffie
Sometimes in life, there are things we’d liked to have done differently, if given a second chance. So I asked Mike if there’s anything he would do differently today regarding poker. He gave me a list of pitfalls he’d like to have avoided. He said that he allowed his ego to dictate too many […]
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Turning the tables
Hobby and I drove to the farmer’s market in West L.A. to buy fresh veggies. He was on another health kick, concocting all sorts of liquefied vegetable goop to purify his body. I stay silent on the sidelines, knowing that in another week or so he’ll be lusting over a medium-rare steak. Hobby […]
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Stud 8 Myths
Stud 8 Myths
If you’re a fan of 7- card stud, maybe you’ve thought about making the crossover into 7-card stud 8 or better. Perhaps you’ve crossed the table in the card room at your favorite casino where it’s being played and liked the heavy action common to so many stud 8 games. Or […]
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Ari Mizrachi, Las Vegas Hilton Poker Room Manager
Ari Mizrachi was born in 1979 in Brooklyn, NY. At the age of 13 his family relocated to North Miami, Florida. Ari left high school in the 11th grade to play professional Jai-Alai. That was 1996, his Jai-Alai career continued until 2004. During that time he also received […]
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway lived large. As a writer, experiences were his raw material. Through novels, Hemingway described and defined, created, characterized, and questioned the culture, values and conflicts of 20th Century America. Long before his death in1961, he was considered a giant of modern literature.
Born in unexciting Oak Park, Illinois, in 1898, Ernest grew-up comfortably. […]
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Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
Those of you who have ever seen the movie Marathon Man are undoubtedly familiar with the question “Is it safe?”. The evil Nazi dentist, Dr. Mengela, repeatedly inquired of the character played by Dustin Hoffman if it was safe. The Dustin Hoffman character kept replying “Is what safe?”, as he had no clue […]
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John Carlisle
A friend of mine has been pulling huge profits at a local (not-so-legal) cardroom. He employs some of the same tactics each time he plays, and it almost always works to the tune of hundreds of dollars per session. Through the early course of the game (NL Hold ‘Em cash games), he’ll intentionally call […]
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Poker at the Imperial Palace
[See also: Imperial Palace Card Room Listing]
The Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino is centrally located on the famous Las Vegas Strip. The Asia themedhotel has been catering to guests for many years with time honored attractions and some of the most stunning cocktail girls in all of Vegas. The IP has […]
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45% of players prefer live games.
A survey of U.S. poker players commissioned by The World Poker Exchange, sponsor of the upcoming London Open lifestyle poker tournament in August, reveals preferences regarding playing poker, a game that is reaching new heights in popularity. Seventy-five percent of players engage in a game at least three times a […]
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Richard Burke
Fred spotted me when I came into the card room on a lovely afternoon in late spring, and hustled over to tell me what had just happened. In the cutoff position of a ten-handed $4-8 Hold’Em game, Fred had raised with [Qh]-[Jc]. The Button and both Blinds folded. A new-to-Fred player in the #3 […]
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