Oklahoma Johnny Hale
Carol, once again we are driving from Las Vegas, Nevada to Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are traveling down old route 66-”The main street of America”-but now they call It I-40.
We are traveling back to Tulsa, Oklahoma-remember the song?-”Take me back to Tulsa?”-to make arrangements for my # 78 birthday poker party.
I remember the first […]
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John Carlisle
Ask any serious poker player about which personality characteristics are needed to be a successful player, and the descriptor of “patient” will usually be somewhere at the top of their list. This comes to no surprise, as we know that it takes measured, solid patience to sit and fold for hours at a time, […]
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Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
Today let’s talk about those long shot hands that make everybody’s tongue wag and create the stories that are told over and over again in the “I can top that” contests. Some time ago, fellow columnist Richard G. Burke wrote about a very unusual hand where both four Kings and four Aces were […]
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The Rookie
Danny, Megan, Earl, Maude and the Rookie were seated at a table at the rear of the Carnegie Deli, steps away from the Mirage poker room.
“Well,” Earl asked the Rookie. “Are you sure you’re ready to give it a try? No limit Hold’Em is a rough game.”
The Rookie nodded.
“Ready as I’ll ever be, Uncle […]
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Hold’em Japan Part 3: A Joe and Hobby Fiction
We came to Japan to play poker; so far it’s been anything but. We were rudely introduced to Japan’s underworld, but survived an altercation which led to an invitation to visit Iwatasan, the number one mob chieftain. Our host Sugi Yamamoto, scoredpoints with the big man and […]
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Poker Cop: A Poker Player Murder Mystery
Honey’s not talking about the House of Cards. Her bodyguard, “Big Elmo,” lays sprawled, half-in and half-out of the front door of “The Girls,” Honey’s Strip Club/Poker Room. What’s left of Honey herself is splattered all over her front steps.
Neither is Thumbs.
The City Morgue’s “Meat Wagon” is parked in […]
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Susie Isaacs
As I read Peter Costa’s column in the October 17 issue, for a moment I thought that he and Phil Hellmuth may be on to something to (again) change our poker world forever. The subject was bad beats in online poker. He eluded first jokingly to solutions (which all sounded great to me!) and […]
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Tony Kendall
The European Poker Tour (EPT), the nearest we have to the wonderful WPT, has now had 3 events in Season 2.
We reported on the season opener in Barcelona previously - suffice to say, the less said about that, the better.
The second event was at The Vic, & there was minimal American interest. Sadly, it […]
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Richard Burke
LindaMae sashayed into my local poker room on a Wednesday afternoon in late summer, signed up for a few games, sat next to me and asked if I had figured out the answer to her question. I had. LindaMae was curious about a hand she played last week. In a ten-handed $4-8 Hold’Em game, […]
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Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
“You gave them the ass whooping they rightfully deserved!” That was the sentiment of one player who cornered me at Foxwoods yesterday. He was responding to my last column. But, wait! I wasn’t trying to “whoop” those poker authorities who argue that limit poker is more complex and […]
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