The Best Poker Player in the World Is ....

If I were going to write a column declaring the best poker player in the world, one would think that I would wait until the end of December when Card Player finalized its Player of the Year standings. But nothing that happens in the next four months, much less the next four years, is going to...

Tuesday Aug 23, 2005

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 16

Raymer is a Champion Who 'Gets It' - A well-earned tribute

After spending a week in Vegas at the World Series of Poker, the endless stream of parties, side action, and business left me so exhausted that I had to leave town before day eight of the "big one." Thanks to the tremendous coverage on CardPlayer.com, however, I might as well have been...

Tuesday Jun 28, 2005

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 12

Will the Stuey Ungar Book Prove Sexton Right Again? A long time in the making

In January 2001 my business partner Frank and I were having dinner with Mike Sexton in the coffee shop of Bellagio. By 2001, Sexton had made a name for himself as a tournament player and the organizer of the Tournament of Champions (TOC), but this was still more than two years before the first...

Tuesday Apr 05, 2005

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 6

Film Review: Owning Mahowny

"You know why he wants to win? So he has the money to keep losing. Now how - - - - - - up is that?" A bookie said this about Dan Mahowny, who was masterfully played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Owning Mahowny. That single segment of dialogue tells you everything you need to know about...

Friday Feb 25, 2005

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 4

Book Review: Moneymaker

Benny Binion, Doyle Brunson, and Chris Moneymaker: Only two of these three names were listed among "The Big Six" in the Jan. 17, 2005, issue of New York magazine in an article about the emergence of poker. Well, they must have had room for only one World Series of Poker ( WSOP)...

Friday Jan 28, 2005

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 2

Should You Teach Your Kids to Play Poker?

Mr. Hilton wasn't exactly the zaniest teacher I ever had, so when he broke out a deck of cards in my seventh-grade algebra class, I couldn't contain my shock. It was time to teach probability, and rather than stick to his tried-and-true method of lecturing followed by countless...

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