The Story of the Aces & Eights Poker Chip

Thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. This haunting line from poet Francis Thompson suggests that everything in the universe is connected. This is also true for poker, as I'll try to show in this somewhat complicated relating of various connected events in my life. A...

Tuesday Aug 19, 2008

published about 1 month ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 16

Remembering John Bonetti

The world of poker dimmed and became considerably duller with the recent passing of John "Bono" Bonetti at the age of 80. As a player, his place in poker history is secure. He did not start playing until he was 55, and then won more than $4 million in some 200 tournament cashes over the...

Wednesday Jun 25, 2008

published 3 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 12

Doomsday Don Visits Barstow

My fans constantly ask me if the characters I write about are real. Of course they are! Do you think an award-winning journalist like me would make them up, or even exaggerate? And most of the performers in my columns are so outrageous that even I wouldn't have the imagination or gall to...

Wednesday May 21, 2008

published 4 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 10

Charity Begins at the Poker Table

It used to be that poker charity meant only one thing: staking a railbird. Times have changed. Along with the explosion of poker has come an explosion of charity poker events. There are now infinite numbers of them across the country and around the world, benefiting just about every worthy cause...

Tuesday Apr 29, 2008

published 5 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 8

Arnold Plays Mit der Ladies

Home values are plummeting. The stock market is crashing. The dollar is crumbling. Gas will be $10 a gallon before long. Global warming is melting the polar ice, and soon we'll all drown. And yet, despite being surrounded by imminent and ongoing disasters, the only thing on some people's...

Wednesday Mar 26, 2008

published 6 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 6

Lady GoDiver

As Tom McEvoy so diplomatically pointed out in one of his recent columns, my tournament play is not likely to get me into the Poker Hall of Fame anytime soon. In graphic detail he described how I "destroyed" my chips while playing in an Omaha eight-or-better tournament at the Wildhorse...

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