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WSOP -- Complete Day 2B Chip Counts
by Shawn Patrick Green | Published: Jul 08, '09
… 22,250 2333 Wilson, Karle “Skip” 22,250 2334 Martin, Herb 22,225 2335 Simpson, Michael 22,200 2336 Suwerink, Robbertjan 22, …
Card Player Honors James Herbert Owenby (1946-2008)
by Card Player News Team | Published: Sep 30, '08
Herb “Coach” Owenby passed away on Aug. 30, 2008, after a long battle with prostate cancer. Even though he had been battling the disease for the past seven years, he still continued his active lifestyle on the poker circuit in several locations, including …
James Richburg Wins Event #16 ($2,500 H.O.R.S.E.)
by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Jun 12, '07
… Bjorin ($227,000), Walter Browne ($207,000), Herb Van Dyke ($130,000), Harry Kazazian ($85, … Schneider ($20,500). After Harry Kazazian and Herb Van Dyke were eliminated in eighth and … 612 6: Robert Mizrachi $32,069 7: Herb Van Dyke $24,601 8: Harry …
Ultimate Poker Challenge Cash Poker at Binions
by Lisa Wheeler | Published: Feb 15, '07
… . "Cowboy" Kenna James and Brandi Williams join Brown as the show's co-hosts. This week's 18 competitors include Herb Montalbano, Joe Awada, Lee Marcum, UPC host Chad Brown, and the always-entertaining Robert Williamson III. Limited seats are still …
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Ike, Dick, and Stanley
by James McManus | Published: Mar 26, '08
… on draw strategy. Stewart schooled Nick in the same percentages that Bob Davis had drilled into Ike and Monty had taught to Herb Yardley. Nixon's term for such preparations was war-gaming. He reveled in risk-averse theory and began to make money playing …
The Buck Stops With Vinson - or Winston
by James McManus | Published: Feb 27, '08
… badly about it." Arriving "Over There" in March 1918, Lt. Truman played about as much poker as Carl Grothaus, Herb Yardley, Bill Gill, Dwight Eisenhower, and a million other doughboys did while in Europe. Truman received further artillery training in …
The Education of a Poker Player - Part IV
by James McManus | Published: Jan 30, '08
… parties leaving in snow and defeat." Herb later found work building houses and … , Monty and 14-year-old Herb watch a hand of deuces-wild … well taken, but a Poe tale Herb might have found even more … that, more than anyone else, Herb Yardley helped usher in the …
The Education of a Poker Player - Part III
by James McManus | Published: Jan 16, '08
… – Bob Dylan, "Po' Boy" In early 1930, with his esoteric skills no longer in demand and the unemployment rate spiraling toward 35 percent, Herb Yardley couldn't find a job. "I felt very small in my rags and could scarcely open my mouth," he said later. " …
The Education of a Poker Player - Part II
by James McManus | Published: Jan 02, '08
… when most "blue-chip" stocks became suddenly worthless. The Roaring '20s were over, America's steepest Depression was well under way, and Herb Yardley, medal and all, was officially out of a job. Next: poker and code-breaking in China and Hollywood.
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