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The Poker World is Flat - Part I
by James McManus | Published: Apr 01, '06
Editor's note: This syndicated article by James McManus first appeared in The New York Times and is being published unedited by Card Player for your reading enjoyment. In his optimistic best seller …
The Poker World is Flat - Part II
by James McManus | Published: Apr 01, '06
Editor's note: This syndicated article by James McManus first appeared in The New York Times and is being published unedited by Card Player for your reading enjoyment. As I noted last week, Thomas L. …
Drawing Red Lines in the Desert, or How (Not) to Bluff a Martyr - Part I
by James McManus | Published: Jan 17, '07
Editor's Note: To mark recent negotiations with Iran, McManus has prepared a pair of columns about bluffing at poker and … this tactic. Editor's Note: This article was adapted from McManus' article "Bluff," which originally appeared in the Nov. 5, 2006, …
Our Hypomanic Helix: The Poker Strand of American DNA
by James McManus | Published: Feb 13, '08
All the right cards were in our hands and so, gracefully, he gave his opinion that we had the answer. - James D. Watson, The Double Helix Why would an 18th-century parlor game played by a few French and Persian aristocrats take hold and …
Decks Cold and Colder
by James McManus | Published: Aug 01, '07
The first time the word "poker" appeared in print was an account of a cold deck in James Hildreth's memoir, Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains, published in 1836. Hildreth describes a late-night game between two officers not far from their barracks. …
Styles and Technologies of Cheating
by James McManus | Published: Apr 11, '07
… millions of young black men to punctuate athletic performance with loud, often rhymed, braggadocio, 19th-century cardsharps like James Ashby, George Devol, and Jimmy Fitzgerald gave rise to rivers of gold chain and validated stylish cheating above plain, …
Hump Guns Down Brain Over Stud Debt!
by James McManus | Published: Nov 13, '07
… game hosted by bookie George "Hump" McManus. The other players were California stud … weeks passed without Rothstein calling. As McManus dunned him more and more aggressively, … The State's Attorney contended that McManus had murdered Rothstein for welching. …
The Buck Stops With Vinson - or Winston
by James McManus | Published: Feb 27, '08
… for this, Roosevelt's first choice for running mate was James Byrnes; he soon learned, however, that the South Carolinian's … had ordered to be detonated above Hiroshima. Because Secretary of State James Byrnes differed with his boss about what to do next - …
The Education of a Poker Player - Part IV
by James McManus | Published: Jan 30, '08
… the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Knowing that Secretary of State James Byrnes vigorously disagreed with him, Truman used the marathon session … "clean" game in Worthington was run by his old mentor, James Montgomery. In 1905, Monty and 14-year-old Herb watch a …
Aces and Eights
by James McManus | Published: Aug 15, '07
… have been his wife's lover rode a tall horse into Deadwood. James Butler Hickok was born on a farm near Troy Grove, Illinois, … learning to hunt wolves for bounty and deer for the family table, James headed for the Rockies at 18 and spent the next six …
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