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 25 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 46 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 53 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...

Tuesday Apr 29, 2008

published 68 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 8

Blotzsky and Witherspoon: Ordinary Poker in the '40s and '50s

Now, everyone has his own opinion of how Joe Blow plays … - Daniel Negreanu In the middle decades of the 20th century, while presidents, generals, and scientific geniuses were playing poker to unwind after earthshaking workdays, reporter Allen Dowling and his newspaper cronies were doing...

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

published 88 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 7

The Secretary, the President, His Wife, and Her Lover

Expert diplomatic poker player that he was, Molotov gave [Ribbentrop] no sign of being in a hurry. - William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich To unwind after his days managing a depression and then a world war, Franklin Roosevelt hosted a nightly cocktail hour in his second-floor...

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