H. Scot Krause
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to win more money playing poker, Pechanga Resort & Casino’s Poker Room in California’s Temecula Valley gives you two more great new tournaments to try your luck and skills. The Pechanga Poker Room is known for its multiple daily tournaments with high stakes and low […]
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David Copperfield
Unlike previous years, when Las Vegas hotel-casinos tried to outdo each other with big-name entertainment flown in for a special New Year’s Eve performance, this year, it’s slim pickings if that’s what you’re looking for.
One of the biggest names in town will be David Copperfield at the MGM Grand. His production show, An Intimate […]
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Poker in Canada
Those moving to our neighbor to the north may get a few unexpected shocks upon entering a Canadian casino for the first time. Canada’s gambling laws differ from the States’s in a variety of interesting ways. The biggest difference is the absence of tax on winnings in Canada. That albatross in the form […]
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Mike Sexton
The way Mike Sexton tells his story, that telephone call in January of 2001 changed everything. Would he be willing to fly to India, a country he had never previously visited, and help some people he had never heard of set up an Internet poker site? This was Sexton’s introduction to what would be […]
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Wynn Las Vegas
The Wynn Resort is the latest addition to the Las Vegas skyline from master resort designer, Steve Wynn. The tallest building in Nevada provides guest with 2,716 luxurious rooms and suites to satisfy the most discerning visitor. Located on the north endof the fabled Vegas Strip tucked away behind the only […]
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John Vorhaus
Last time we profiled a few typical denizens of online play. Let’s continue our forensic investigation now.
WALLY. A Wally (short for cally Wally) is a weakloose player. Wallies call too much, fold and raisetoo little, and chase all sorts of draws without regard to, or indeed knowledge of, pot odds. They’ll routinely call preflop […]
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Oklahoma Johnny Hale
Yes folks, I know that most of the time I put my poker tip of the week near the bottom of this column, but for today it will be on top.
“Oklahoma Johnny” Poker tip of the Week. Today’s tip comes to us from Mary Pickford-who said (and I am sure she had […]
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Poker Cop: A Poker Player Murder Mystery
When the last hand of the night was dealt the countdown clock on the bomb under the poker table read 0:05:01.
On the button in a $50/$100 no-limit hold’em game, I peel off the felt the worst possible poker hand, the [7d] [2h].
I look to my right and I check […]
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Charlie Shoten
We all agree that the ability to maintain focus at the poker table separates the truly great players from the average ones. It enables you to choose and act on your best decision. I have shared some of my strategies that help me maintain my focus in my previous four articles in Poker Player […]
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Michael Matts, Card Room Manager for Caesar’s Palace
Michael Matts was born (April 19, 1966) and raised in West Orange, New Jersey. Michael graduated from West Orange High School in 1984 and went on to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
In 1988 Michael graduated from Rutgers with a BS in Mathematics and in September of […]
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