‘Tiger’ Lil Duquaine
In your wildest dreams, could you ever imagine your grandmother as boss of your favorite poker room? Since 1998, Lil Duquaine, appropriately nicknamed Tiger Lil, has been a driving force in Wisconsin’s poker scene as the Table Games Manager for Menominee Casino Resort’s Forest Edge Poker Room, no small feat for this mother […]
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Ashley Adams
The balk in baseball is an illegal move by the pitcher, potentially causing runners to move prematurely, thinking the pitcher is actually throwing the ball to home. Runners are awarded a base and the motion is declared “no pitch.” There are balks in poker as well. The good poker player needs to protect himself […]
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Mike Eikenberry
My approach to playing poker tournaments has always been conservative. I play in my favorite real money games. If I win, I invest in up to three one-table satellites for the main tournament. If I win a one-table satellite, then I play in the main event. This approach has kept my net overall cost […]
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I. Nelson Rose
This is the story of a casino that will never exist. In the computer industry, when a company announces that it is developing some great new software, but nothing is ever actually produced, they call it vaporware. In the gaming industry, we have vaporcasinos.
OnJuly 28, 2007, the Los Angeles Times ran an article […]
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Lou Krieger
Weak poker players make this mistake above all others: They call instead of folding. And it’s only natural. Like most of us, you venture out to the cardroom to play poker, not to fold hand after hand.
Folding isn’t much fun, and if winning is paramount in your eyes-forget for a moment all the social […]
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Jan Fisher
As I conclude another weekend of teaching World Poker Tour Boot Camp, I was reminded of a comment made to me recently. A student in a recent seminar suggested that players such as Linda Johnson, who had given the seminar with me, and I shouldn’t play in ladiesonly poker tournaments. She said that we […]
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Jackson Rancheria Casino
When Central Valley and South Sacramento folks say they’re going to heaven, there’s a good chance they’re talking about driving to the Jackson Rancheria Casino/Hotel, in Jackson, California.
And heaven’s got a handsome and spacious 15-table poker room where players pray and prey while being waited on by angels. Hallelujah! Open less than a […]
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