Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
True, I care about poker and the people who play it. It’s not an act. But it’s not a noble trait, either. It’s just some sort of neurosis I’ve developed while straying from life’s freeways and hacking my own silly path. Something deep, deep in the core of […]
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Ashley Adams
I just got back from my annual trip to Las Vegas for the World Series of poker. I’m thinking about whether the trip was worth it and whether I’ll go out again next year. .
I’m not, chiefly, a tournament player. Even so, I enjoyed the experience of playing in the World Series of Poker. […]
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Lou Krieger
My World Series of Poker ended with a thud, and it took two days to climb out of my suicidal phase. I hate losing. What’s worse is the walk of shame out of the tournament area, where I feel like every eye is on me, watching me leave in silence, shame, and despair.
In reality, […]
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I. Nelson Rose
The final table of the World Series of Poker’s main event shows, once again, that poker tournaments are games of skill.
Courts have developed tests over the last couple of hundred years to determine whether a particular game is predominantly chance or skill. If courts and prosecutors were honest in applying these tests, at […]
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Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire
I decided to play in one of the threeday long, $1,500 buy-in, no-limit hold’em events at the 2007 World Series of Poker. The fields are massive and range anywhere from 2,400 to 3,000 players.
I survived the first day of play in that event, and also cashed, finishing 119 out of 2,778 players. […]
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Jonathan Raab
When the European Poker Tour (EPT) launched three years ago, the buy-in for the first event was a very modest ?1,000 ($1,360), rising to what seemed like a very natural level at ?5,000 ($6,800) for the events in its most recent third season. At a press conference held in Barcelona last September, founder John […]
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