Perks and Picks

H. Scot Krause
The Wyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace Casino is the first casino in The Bahamas to announce the introduction of daily live poker play. Baha Mar Development Corp, the hotel group that recently took over ownership and management of the Wyndham, along with the Radisson Cable Beach Resort & Golf Club and Nassau […]

Entertainment Report

Len Butcher
Lots to talk about this week, so let’s get to it. Went to see Danny Gans a few weeks ago at The Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Haven’t seen him since he opened at the resort some five years ago. Place was packed, as it always is, and within five minutes he […]

A Personal Tribute

Donna Blevis
This issue I fully intended on completing my review of Mississippi cardroom until I stumbled onto a journal entry I wrote in 1990. I’d like to share this very personal piece with you. “It was 1961-1962. Time for the 6th grade. Time for 12-year-old Donna to go from the two-room school house in the […]

The Masque Man, Part 2

George Marlowe’s Artwork
In the last issue of Poker Player, we followed George Marlowe’s life from getting kicked out of half a dozen schools for playing poker to a career of a successful professional poker player, to his entrance into the “real world” and a “real” career during his years as “Super Dad” and the birth […]