News Article Results
A Poker Life -- Matt Hawrilenko
by Kristy Arnett | Published: Oct 26, '09
… Throughout elementary and middle school, Hawrilenko played baseball, soccer, and basketball. Hawrilenko also studied Kung Fu, and earned a black belt … year of high school. When he was cut from the basketball team as a junior, he gave wrestling a shot. He …
A Poker Life -- Shannon Shorr
by Kristy Arnett | Published: Oct 12, '09
… have always been supportive of everything we did. I had a really good childhood.” An adventurous kid, Shorr played basketball, football, and baseball. While attending Shades Valley High School, he focused mostly on baseball, but never let athletics get …
A Poker Life -- Eugene Katchalov
by Kristy Arnett | Published: Sep 21, '09
… school is hard for any kid that age." Through middle school and high school, Katchalov remained active. He played basketball and joined both the bowling and tennis teams. After graduation, Katchalov attended New York University and got accepted into the …
Card Player Cruises Poker Ship Heads to Eastern Seaboard
by Stephen A. Murphy | Published: Sep 08, '09
… Caribbean Cruise Lines’ Explorer of the Seas, which also features several restaurants, a spa and fitness center, several pools and Jacuzzis, a basketball court, a disco, and a number of shops. And, of course, you can play poker as little or as much as you …
Tournament Trail Q and A -- Alexander Kravchenko
by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Aug 06, '09
… . If they chose to treat poker like a sport, then anyone could have opened a poker club. There is no government regulation in basketball, so if poker were a sport, there would be no regulation there, either. They want to regulate it. From my point of view, …
Magazine Article Results
‘Check or Bet’
by Bob Ciaffone | Published: Oct 30, '09
… right way to deal poker. The game is about the players and the money, not the dealer, just as contests such as football, basketball, and boxing are not about the referee. A good dealer tries to be as inconspicuous as possible. An excellent dealer can run a …
An American Poker Player in Europe
by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Sep 18, '09
… , but I played three sports — baseball, basketball, and soccer — pretty much year-round.” … , but I could have played collegiate basketball somewhere in the Bible Belt, or … home, I started coaching soccer and basketball for middle-school kids, and I spent …
Tactics
by Steve Zolotow | Published: Aug 07, '09
Poker has something in common with football, basketball, chess, bridge, and many other competitive endeavors, including warfare. It is often the case in a game or sport that a player or team develops some new concept that initially takes the opponents by …
Generation Next -- Matt Vengrin
by Craig Tapscott | Published: Jul 10, '09
… Now, poker isn’t something that I have to do, but something that I want to do.” Vengrin found poker while playing basketball for SUNY Plattsburgh University in New York and majoring in psychology. He traveled to his first World Series of Poker on a whim …
Capture the Flag: Steve Billirakis
| Published: Jul 10, '09
… go on tilt. Anyone can recognize and learn from their mistakes. As long as you do that, I think you can do it. It’s like basketball. If you shoot a million free throws, you’re going to become a good free-throw shooter. If you play a million hands, you’re …
