August 6th, 2005
Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
What really is a bad beat? Well, the definition from the glossary of Doyle’s Bible is, “When you get a big hand cracked (beaten) by someone who was a big dog against you and made his longshot draw…you’re said to have had a bad beat”. Sklansky and Malmuth in their glossary of terms […]
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August 6th, 2005
Hannibal Hamlin Poker Player, Politician, Vice President
Hannibal Hamlin was named after the brilliant Carthaginian general who used elephants to get his army across the Alps and attack the surprised Romans about 200 B.C.
Born in 1809 in Maine, Hannibal grew up in a prosperous family. His father was a Harvard-trained physician. He excelled both academically and […]
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