Card Room Round-Up: Sam’s Town

Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall
[See Also: The Card Room Directory entry for Sam’s Town]

Located on the Boulder Strip, Sam’s Town Hotel & Gambling Hall offers a full complement of games, shopping and services. The off-strip signature property belongs to Boyd Gaming Corporation (Boyd Gaming owns 18 properties including the Borgata), and represents […]

Hold’em Japan: A Joe and Hobby Fiction

Hold’em JApan: A Joe and Hobby Fisction
Hobby and I met for lunch at Marlow’s, an upscale seafood place in West L.A. Since it was my turn to buy, Hobby picked this place so I wouldn’t get off lightly.

“A drink before lunch?”

an effervescent waitress asked.

“Golden margarita,” Hobby answered. I might usually go for the same, but […]

Edgar Allan Poe Author & Poet, Drunk & Gambler

Edgar Allan Poe
Among any Gallery of Great American Writers, none has a higher place than Edgar Allan Poe. A lonely, tortured genius, he crafted tales of terror and poems of passion and pain.

Born in Boston in 1809, Poe’s parents were struggling actors. By thetime he was three, both parents had died. He was taken in […]

Playing Small Pocket Pairs

Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
Let’s continue along the road of identifying weaknesses in our game and then proactively setting a goal to eliminate them. Done properly, this will result in stronger play at the tables and therefore bigger cash outs at the cage. We’ve all heard the maxim of “Play live cards in Stud and high cards […]