Ashley Adams
Just when you’ve tuned your casino game to take advantage of the tighter and more aggressive style of casino players, you find yourself in a home game. Should you apply your excellent casino strategy to the home game? Maybe not. It depends on the unique qualities of the game you’re in.
I’ve found over the […]
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Mickey Wernick
How many British pro players can you name? I imagine most North American poker enthusiasts can only think of a handful of the most high profile players, such as Dave “Devilfish” Ulliot, Roland de Wolfe, or maybe Ram Vaswani. There is however one player from over here who you should also know about, as […]
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Whisked Away: a Joe and Hobby Poker Fiction - Finale
Joe had been kidnapped from outside a Palm Springs casino. While Hobby, the Palm Springs police, and the FBI were looking for him, he was held captive in a sleazy motel. Joe managed to cut open the duct tape that bound him, but just as he […]
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I. Nelson Rose
The federal Court of Appeals has declared that, at least for labor law, tribal casinos are to be treated exactly the same as casinos that are owned by private citizens. In other words, a tribal casino is not a part of a government, but merely just another privately owned business.
At a minimum, this […]
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Normandie Casino General Manager Karlo Deza
Normandie Casino General Manager Karlo Deza was a college student when he landed his first job in the poker business at the Gardena casino.
It was 1994, Deza was 21, trying to help his mom out and had been told that working as a poker dealer would be a good gig, […]
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Jan Fisher
The age old question has always been “does size really matter?” Well, I guess in some things it does, certainly the NBA comes to mind! But does the size of a poker tournament really matter?
Are the biggest events that much different than the smaller ones? If a poker tournament is run properly and you […]
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Len Butcher
Although my tastes in music run more to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Streisand and Dinah Washington-though you thought I was going to say Patti Page, didn’t you-there are a few of today’s singers I enjoy. No, Britney Spears is not one of them. But Gwen Stefani is, and she’ll be returning the The Pearl at […]
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Scotty Nguyen
Poker players, get ready for the Midwest’s greatest poker tournament. It’s the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV, and it’s coming November 1-20 to Cherokee Casino Resort. The prize pool should exceed $2 million. Cherokee Casino Resort and poker legend Scotty Nguyen draw poker’s best competitors for non-stop action and more events than ever.
“Each Scotty […]
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Oklahoma Johnny Hale
Carol, I want to write a series of columns about the great players of the past that I have had the opportunity to play poker with during my lifetime.
Most of the poker players will be well known to you folks, but a few will just be my poker buddies. Some are now in […]
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