Beads, Hardship, and 24 Bucks

About 7,000 years ago, the Paleo Indians made their way from Asia through Alaska, eventually settling on the East Coast and becoming the first inhabitants of what they called Island of the Hills, or Manhattan. Some 500 years ago, Giovanni da Verrazano discovered the natural port of Manhattan and...

Tuesday Mar 22, 2005

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 5

Poker Explosion - A Problem Within

In the many columns you read regarding the poker explosion, it seems that everything is just fine in the world of poker, right? Well, maybe there's a problem in Pokerville. The growth of an industry, while always a good thing, doesn't come without growing pains, and in the poker industry,...

Friday Nov 19, 2004

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 17, Number 24

How Far-Reaching the Shock Wave

When I first started writing this column, my main purpose was to educate new players so they wouldn't be intimidated when walking into a casino. Self-serving in some ways, I wanted to make certain there would be plenty of people at the poker tables as I got older, because so few...

Friday Oct 22, 2004

published over 3 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 17, Number 22

Be Afraid … Be Very Afraid!

It's fitting that I write this column as Halloween approaches, because scary things happen all the time in poker - like losing to the one guy at the table whom everyone else is beating like a drum, or having the only card in the deck that can beat you on the river hit the board and rob you of...

Wednesday May 12, 2004

published over 4 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 17, Number 11

Two Sets to Love - No Valentines

A week after Valentine's Day, the big day at Commerce Casino finally arrived - the World Poker Tour championship event of the L.A. Poker Classic - and I was pumped. On the heels of winning a seat in the previous night's supersatellite, I was ready. Seeing a big crowd, I knew there would...

Friday Apr 23, 2004

published over 4 years ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 17, Number 9

Moneymaker's Real Name Is …

In the electronic age, the growth of anything can usually be measured by its exposure - and, surely, poker on television is everywhere. In examining the explosion of poker, there are many things to which one can point; of course, the two biggest would have to be the World Series of Poker and the...

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