Poker Will Continue to Boom

Jeff is incredibly lazy, so he asked me to write his publisher's message for this issue. I guess sitting around collecting money is tiring for him. Anyway, I agreed, so here it is … People are constantly telling me that poker has peaked. I tell them that they're wrong. This week, I...

Friday Apr 11, 2003

published 1915 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 16, Number 8

Charity Begins at Home

A man came back from a break to our live-action pot-limit hold'em table when I was in Tunica recently. He had been walking when I joined the game. He sat back down in front of his rather large stack, removed the "overs" box that was on top of his chips, and resumed play. On his...

Friday Mar 14, 2003

published 1943 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 16, Number 6

Listen to the Voice

Midway through a hellish tournament at the Jack Binion World Poker Open in Tunica, I decided to get the hell out of Dodge. The urge came strongly and suddenly. I had lost about a fourth of my nominal $50,000 bankroll in the first two weeks of the year. That's not a good pace, obviously....

Friday Feb 14, 2003

published 1971 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 16, Number 4

Bad Start

I drove my brand-new Nissan 350Z all the way down to Tunica for the World Poker Open. Jason Viriyayuthakorn and I decided to go for a little drive from the casino down to town to pick up some lunch. Just as I punched the gas pedal to show Jason what the car could do, the road ended. There was no...

Friday Jan 17, 2003

published 1999 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 16, Number 2

Resolutions

All right. A new year is upon me and it's time to get serious or get out of poker. I've spent the last two years dabbling as a tournament player, but I haven't given it the kind of concentrated focus that is absolutely required to succeed. A bunch of people have come up to me recently...

Friday Dec 20, 2002

published 2027 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 15, Number 26

Foxwoods 2002

I'm sitting in a nighttime supersatellite at Foxwoods. They're giving away one seat for the main event to the winner, worth $10,000, and $5,000 in cash for second place. The pressure is pretty high. There are 40 entrants, and only two of us are going to get paid. This is a totally...

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