Gardena, That '70s Poker Capital

By the mid-1970s, poker had two distinct capitals. The Texas road gamblers' no-limit hold'em sanctuary in Downtown Las Vegas was active mainly during the World Series in April, while Gardena, a working-class suburb of Los Angeles, had hundreds of five-card draw players in action every day...

Wednesday Jul 09, 2008

published 14 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 13

The World Series of Poker - Part I

During the 1960s, with his Horseshoe Casino on Fremont Street dominating Glitter Gulch in Downtown Las Vegas, Benny Binion still had to compete with the Rat Pack, the Folies Bergere, Elvis Presley, and all of the Jetsons-esque architecture going up a few miles south on the Strip. True to his...

Wednesday Jun 25, 2008

published 28 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 12

Two Burn Holes in a Blanket

And it's one, two, three, what're we fightin' for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam. - Country Joe and the Fish Massachusetts Congressman Thomas "Tip" O'Neill was no peacenik or Viet Cong sympathizer. Although his congressional district...

Wednesday Jun 11, 2008

published 42 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 11

The Opposite of a Peace Sign

Charlie don't surf! -- Col. William Kilgore American soldiers certainly played poker in Vietnam -- in jungle hooches, Hanoi prison cells, air-conditioned offices in Saigon -- as they have in every conflict since the Civil War. A more interesting story, perhaps, is how one of the cards in...

Wednesday May 21, 2008

published 63 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 10

Hold Me, Darlin'

Though the games are quite different, Texas hold'em is often called a variant of seven-card stud. This is mainly because no draw takes place in either game and players have a board of exposed cards in both -- individual in stud, shared in hold'em -- for a total of seven cards from which...

Wednesday May 14, 2008

published 70 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 9

Sleepless Giants: The Legend of Johnny and the Greek

Between legend-making, exaggeration, and fabrication, there is reason to believe we don't know the accurate story. - Michael Craig What Michael Craig says about the celebrated match between Johnny Moss and Nick "The Greek" Dandalos can serve as the epigraph to nearly any account of...

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