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'Another small itinerary change, we won't be stopping at Ensenada. Mike has to take Lazybuns to the shipyard for some engine work. He'll fill the tanks with diesel too, so we won't have to stop; we'll just head straight for Cabo. What do you think?' Ho

Don't Miss the Final Deep Stack of 2008 at the Venetian. The first three Extravaganzas of 2008 drew 26,000 entrants and produced a total prize pool more than

WORLD SERIES OF POKER EUROPE APPROACHES

The second go-round for the World Series of Poker Europe begins later this month, the centerpiece of a busy calendar of poker events on the Continent that's seemingly destined to define Sep

In February 2007, Morgans Hotel Group and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners acquired the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Following the purchase, an $800 million expans

I've answered 100 questions so far in this series. If you're just tuning in, you're probably wondering what 'this series' means. For the past several months

Choosing the right starting hands is just as important in no-limit hold'em as it is in a fixed-limit game, but there are significant differences in the kind

'How's it going for your big cruise, Hobby? By the way, I've decided to go.'

'I already had you down as a passenger, Joe. It's going well. Sue said she'd sail to Cabo with us and fly home from there if Kim would too.'

'Kim

Playing limit hold 'em in our local casino's poker room and holding 8h-7h on the button, I raised. Five players called. The dealer flopped 8s-7s-2d. They all

There's something singularly upsetting about losing with a pair of aces. At the beginning of the hand, anytime I look down at my hole cards and see two aces,

A few days ago I watched my friend Brian play a very short no-limit session. He bought in for the maximum in a brand new nine-handed game with $5-$5 blinds an

Should the prohibitions on internet gambling have a carve-out for online poker?

The question is much more complicated than it seems. If the ar

I feel the need to go on a bit of a rant. I've been playing a fair amount of online poker lately and have found that whether I am playing live or online, the

Last week we took a look at a situation that happens all too frequently in seven-card stud hi/lo -- a player with no qualifying low hand who gets freerolled for the high half of the pot by a player with a made low. The long and short...

A man with a clear conscience has nothing to fear from a knock at midnight. -Chinese Proverb

[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand

You will hear the words 'power' and 'poker' used a lot together. Yet everyone seems to have different definitions of what power poker is. Some insist that it

John 'The Razor' Phan sliced and diced his way to another big payday last week at the main event of the Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker tournament. Not onl

Republican Platform:

The first published draft of the 2008 Republican Party Platform originally included anti-internet gambling language which read, i

Joseph Walsh drove up to Las Vegas the last few days of the World Series of Poker to spend some quality time with old friends... the world of gambling and it

All too often poker players think of poker psychology as the study of one's opposition. More precisely, most assume it involves watching other players for ph

Stud games are typically the games that beginning mixed-games players struggle with the most. They require much more attention to detail than flop games due to all of the cards that are exposed during the course of a hand. For example...