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:

  • 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 [...]

  • Shirts and Giggles

    Political poker fashion statements
    17 Apr 2012

    The 2012 WSOP is right around the corner, and one key question you have to ask every year: OMG, what am I gonna wear? It’s been a long time since i’ve seen a poker T-shirt that actually made me LOL even a little bit … but dare I say kinda cool? And the good folks [...]

  • Tax Court Ruling Favors Poker Pros

    Feds change stance on deductible expenses
    06 Apr 2012

    David in Dallas sends an FYI about a big ruling in Tax Court that should prove rather beneficial to poker players: The key take-away is that poker losses are now deductible for professional gamblers beyond your profits, so you can carry them forward and backward to offset income in other years. You can file on [...]

  • Cleveland Cavs Owner Buys into Caesars Online Gambling

    Gilbert puts his money where your mouse is
    04 Apr 2012

    Prediction: there will be a WSOP-Cleveland this year … or maybe a WSOP-Cincinatti next year … if not both. The Caesars poker empire has made no bones about its expansionist desires … and now the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, through his company Rock Gaming, has bought a $61 million stake in the Empire’s online [...]

  • Poker to the Masses

    Chris Moneymaker on tour in documentary as accidental movie star, subcultural icon
    26 Mar 2012

    For those who weren’t up at 6am pacific last Thursday watching news, Chris Moneymaker appeared on Morning Joe (MSNBC’s start to the mainstream news day) with Doug Tirola, director of ALL IN: The Poker Movie … the documentary you’ve been hearing about for years (it won an award at the Cinevegas Film Festival three years [...]

  • Poker Player Tax Advice

    Government wants its cut, and should you file a Form D-bag with your W-2G?
    26 Mar 2012

    With April 15 right around the corner, poker players are undoubtedly thinking about Black Friday Anniversary Parties remembering in the normal-people world that the real “Black Friday” isn’t until November, and oh crap, you mean federal income taxes weren’t just part of the tournament entry fee!?! And while there isn’t a blank specifically on a [...]

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