Dan Michalski

Pokerati in Chief, Parking Lot Correspondent

LAS VEGAS - Dan Michalski is a award-winning journalist and blogger turned media and gaming consultant. He's served as editor of ALL IN magazine and PokerBlog.com, and also was the first official blogger for the WSOP. His accomplishments on the felt include winning the inaugural WSOP-Dream Team Poker event in 2009 and taking second place in the 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:

• The Evolution of “Click a Mouse …”

  Online gambling opponents refining their message?

  07 Feb 2012

  Quick LOL … something I stumbled across while reading what I presumed was just a ho-hum news article about another state gearing up for online gambling (via the PPA’s latest newsletter). I wanted to see what state was next and whether or not they separated out poker. Turns out it was just California, talking about [...]

• The Re-Publicing of Caesars

  Sign Federal online legalization is almost here?

  07 Feb 2012

  Buckle up … the news (we care about) has been moving too fast for Pokerati be the lone source keeping up with it all. And with this latest — Caesars has made it official … the Empire is going public (again)! — don’t be surprised if February/March 2012 turns out to be the biggest news [...]

• WSOP Main Event Champions: Where Are They Now?

  Jerry Yang '07

  05 Feb 2012

  We know about Jamie Gold’s poker residency at the Tropicana in Las Vegas — where he can be found playing 1/2 and apparently trying to fill the poker world’s Professor void by offering lessons that cost about as much as a college education. (The Jamie Gold Poker Room official launch party, btw, is Feb 17!) [...]

• (Not So) New Episode(s) of The Micros

  Award-winning poker cartoons for fun

  02 Feb 2012

  Jeesh, everything’s so serious these days … or stupid. Either way, it’s been too long since we forgot to tell you about the latest from The Micros. It really was a funny episode a month ago. But like always, lol because it’s true! And we have a bonus late episode — the Micros’ pitch for [...]

• GOP Poker Weekend in Nevada

  Will players step up and buy in or sit out to play the apathy card?

  01 Feb 2012

  The following reminder that Nevada will be the place of political buzz this weekend comes via Lupe Soto, Nevada State Director of the PPA. While there are plenty of tournaments to play and press releases to spin — not to mention all the NL/PLO to heavily pimp! — it really would be a shame if [...]

• Tiananmen Poker?

  Not quite, but poker continues to improve its standing in 21st Century world

  30 Jan 2012

  Check it out all you haters … PC World magazine, a non-poker-biased publication, has included “online poker lobby” among 10 examples of “How the Web Spurs Political Change”. Though online poker liberalisation doesn’t quite reach the level of using Twitter to overthrow the Egyptian president, Poker Players Alliance activism did receive an “effective” rating, the [...]

• State of the Poker Union

  @PPAPoker speaks to @BarackObama about "common sense"

  24 Jan 2012

  I’m fairly certain Barack Obama has known a little bit about the online poker “situation” for a while … at least since the White House released its Strategy to Protect Online Consumers and Support Innovation and National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace on April 15, 2011. And you gotta think Obama probably got briefed [...]

• Jamie Gold Poker Coaching Rate

  LOL, but does it come with a happy ending?

  21 Jan 2012

  I’m sure Jamie Gold and Las Vegas will eventually become friends. I for one have a whole new respect for the WSOP-champ in Residence @TropLVPoker after hearing his interview on Donkdown; and philosophically, he’s trying to bring some of the same things to the Tropicana that the Pokerati Game tries to bring to the Palms. [...]

• Executive Exodus: PokerStars CEO Campos Is Out

  Cleaning house or abandoning ship at legally troubled online poker corp?

  16 Jan 2012

  Too Soon? PokerStars is proud to announce that this has never happened on any PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. PokerStars may be without a CEO for the time being, as Gabi Campos, who assumed the chief executive position in 2010, reportedly is no longer big boss of the largest real-money online poker site in the world. While [...]

• Advanced Degree Donkey Weekend

  Soft action alert? Networking FTW!

  14 Jan 2012

  Here’s a “big” poker happening @CLVPoker catering to a different kinda dbag … the Caesars MBA Poker Championship. It’s a closed tournament open only to current MBA students and accredited MBA alumni (please show your proof of registration or diploma at the window?) … but with a few hundred chicks and dudes hoping to power-suit [...]