Dan Michalski

Pokerati in Chief, Parking Lot Correspondent

LAS VEGAS - Dan Michalski is an award-winning journalist and blogger who's served as editor of ALL IN magazine and PokerBlog.com, and was the first official blogger for the WSOP. Accomplishments on the felt include winning the inaugural (and only) WSOP-Dream Team Poker event in 2009 and taking second place in his own NL/PLO event at the inaugural (and final?) Detox Poker Series in 2010.

Outside of poker, he's written for The New York Times, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, the London Observer, the Dallas Observer, Texas Monthly, D Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, and many other publications. He also was the founding Las Vegas Editor of Thrillist.

Dan currently hosts a 1/2 PLO/NL Hold'em game at the Palms Poker Room in Las Vegas, and previously ran what ALL IN magazine called the Best Free Tournament in the Country in Dallas, TX.

Posts by DanM:

• Rio Rap Party

  @SrslySrius gets psyched for the WSOP

  25 May 2012

  It’s the kind of built-in customer appreciation and multimedia word of mouth a true evil empire could only dream of … or maybe it’s just free advertising Caesars officials have grown to expect: My how far we’ve come since the days when Jeff Madsen held the mic for the WSOP.

• New Podcast Recommendations

  The sounds of botching a Bellagio robbery, Jersey casinos un-resurrected, scholarly gaming pursuits @UNLV + hardcore legalese w Disco Stu

  24 May 2012

  So many new podcasts. At least the voices in our heads are staying fresh … and there really is more news and analysis related to poker and gaming and casinos and gambling than you can read all over the internet. Some shows I recently found and/or enjoyed … you may want to give a listen, [...]

• $5,000 for Your Thoughts?

  American-friendly online freeroll this weekend and then ...

  18 May 2012

  A lotta free poker sites looking for your business these days. Should be interesting to see which ones play the game right enough to stick around for a few years. One such site, Face Up Gaming, threw a $5k real-money freeroll last weekend and has another one this Sunday, noon PT (3p ET). Not a [...]

• Cash Plays

  w Joe Tehan, John Kim, and Jon Hemmer

  18 May 2012

  With the World Series around the corner and the Pokerati NLH/PLO on a Pre-SOP hiatus, I almost forgot to be thinking about my actual play. So what better way to begin insulating my bankroll than by listening to the latest episode of Cash Plays — featuring the biggest sucker outer in Epic Poker history, the [...]

• Video of Korean Monks Playing Poker

  16 May 2012

  Here it is — the poker game that has caught more attention worldwide than the latest from Isildur1 or Shaun Deeb or whoever it is who keeps winning all the poker these days: FWIW, this video confirms my belief that the NYT and other mainstream media probably miscalculated the stakes … you tell me, are [...]

• Zynga Returning to Las Vegas for Live Poker Event?

  14 May 2012

  Though there hasn’t been any official announcement yet, nor do we have any insider knowledge … Pokerati’s exclusive screengrab journalism (and an iPhone that seemed to be buzzing moreso than usual this weekend) can confirm that the world’s largest online poker operation — and the only one with enough cash to buy up Full Tilt [...]

• Monks Playing Poker

  12 May 2012

  I know I shouldn’t celebrate yet another poker related scandal, but with minimal information, this one is definitely a favorite … six Buddhist monks have resigned over a scandalous video showing some high priests playing high-stakes poker (and drinking and smoking) when they were supposed to be honoring a dead leader. Awesome. Supposedly it was [...]

• PokerStars to Save the Day?

  Murmurs and hubbub rising from the Full Tilt/GBT rubble

  09 May 2012

  You hear a lotta stuff … ok, maybe not so much now without 2+2 … but regardless, I go to our Manhattan-based pal Wendeen in matters of DOJ vs. Full Tilt/PokerStars et al … and sure, even though I was all over so-called poker radio screaming that there wasn’t a chance the supposed GBT/Full Tilt [...]

• Calm before the Lame-duck Smackdown

  Poker lobby report

  27 Apr 2012

  Bryan in Washington DC sends along an update from PPA lobbyist Jeff MacKinnon (of Ryan, MacKinnon, Berzok and Vasapoli, LLP) on the current legislative landscape for online poker as seen by those working the hallways of Capitol Hill. It’s apparently all about gearing up for a lame-duck-session smackdown, and riding our net-positive revenue potential onto an [...]

• Keys to Success, I Mean Failure

  Curse of the keychain swag

  20 Apr 2012

  Mark Cuban wrote that a sure sign of failure for any start-up is too much promotional gear. I’ve always kinda agreed … believing too many pokerpreneur types come with all the hype but not an actual product (let alone value proposition). But who am I to complain? Everyone knows Pokerati’s business model: to run a [...]