Erick Lindgren - Always in Action

Blond-haired, boyish, and astonishingly all-American looking, Erick Lindgren initially appears too wholesome to be mixed up in anything as risky as high-stakes gambling. After a few minutes of small talk, though, it becomes immediately clear that he bets six figures the way that most us bet...

Wednesday Apr 25, 2007

published 450 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 8

Logic Problem

Alan Boston meets me at his favorite Chinese restaurant, on the west side of Las Vegas, and I ask him how things are going. "It's been a rough year," he says, settling in at a table near the rear of the sleek eatery. "Tonight we lost three games at the buzzer." And...

Tuesday Feb 20, 2007

published 514 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 3

Surviving and Thriving

My interview with Dewey Tomko has been scheduled and rescheduled three times over the course of a Wednesday morning. He's in Las Vegas, officially, to play in the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio (and he quickly manages to win $15,000 in a single-table satellite there), but for...

Wednesday Jan 17, 2007

published 548 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 1

Sammy Farha

Sammy "No Deal" Farha has gone from managing a gift shop in Houston to handling six-figure swings in the "big game," and snagging a pair of World Series bracelets. His idea of relaxation? Betting thousands in the Bellagio blackjack pit. It's a Saturday afternoon at...

Tuesday Dec 26, 2006

published 570 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 19, Number 25

'The Takeover' Lives Up to His Name

On the afternoon that I meet Nick Schulman in his Manhattan apartment, the 22-year-old poker-world phenom - you might know him as "The Takeover" if you happen to frequent high-stakes games online - is celebrating an anniversary. Nearly one year ago, just months after turning 21,...

Tuesday Nov 14, 2006

published 612 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 19, Number 22

The Jesus of Handicapping

Mickey Appleman suggests that we meet at a rest area just off the Palisades Parkway in Northern New Jersey. I drive up, and there's Mickey, wearing baggy chinos and an old World Series of Poker jacket, standing in front of his silver BMW. Expressionless, he tells me to park my car and hop...

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