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:

• New New Jersey Poker

  Sneak peek at new Revel poker room in AC

  25 Mar 2012

  Every once in a while we remember there are poker room developments of note in places other than Vegas and that New Jersey still has poker. The Golden Nugget opened their AC joint last month to Jersey-ish fanfare … but the room that really has people buzzing is at the new Revel Casino, which best I can [...]

• Gaming Interests Still Bullish about Online Gambling Chances

  16 Mar 2012

  Check it out … while some have been saying federal online poker legislation is near death, not all are willing to abandon hope that Sen. Reid might-could have something up his sleeve so hey poker players, keep it kinda hush, yo!. Here’s American Gaming Association chief Frank Fahrenkopf on the Reno wonkcast Nevada Newsmakers (Home [...]

• Oops, I Won Too Much Country!

  Tom Schneider launches music career with EP

  12 Mar 2012

  We still love Donkeybomber ’round these parts; just haven’t written much about the famous author and ’07 WSOP Player of the Year lately because … well, um, how do you put this nicely when his biggest accomplishments since then include not having enough money on Full Tilt to actually lose anything, and maybe getting retweeted [...]

• Media Named as Co-conspirator in Calvin Ayre Indictment

  Are poker affiliates next in DOJ sights?

  04 Mar 2012

  When Calvin Ayre got indicted this past week, some were wondering what took so long … because if the DOJ couldn’t nab the brashest of online gambling kingpins (Bodog did sports-betting for chrissakes!) then there had to be a formula — a legal-enough way to run an online gambling empire while steering clear of America’s [...]

• Quick Weekend Link-Dump

  5 web happenings you might not know about but should

  03 Mar 2012

  Every week I open tab after tab and occasionally star a website intent on sharing it with you in some sorta blog capacity … hopefully before my browser crashes. So in an attempt to keep tabs on the poker-industry, here’s a grab-bag of relatively new (to me at least) and noteworthy sites to visit because [...]

• Hot(ish) Topic: TechCrunch on Poker

  Online poker legalization picking up heat from non-pokery world?

  02 Mar 2012

  Maybe it was just the mid-day glare … but LOL I thought they were talking about eccentric British billionaire Richard Branson, who has quite an interest in the future of money related to online gaming, not the non-knighted digital gaming wonk Richard Bronson: But still cool they’re talking online poker legalization on TechCrunch. And Bronson [...]

• Ironic Hold’em?

  Poker has long fought association with cross words

  22 Feb 2012

  Stumbled across this New York Times crossword puzzle from 2008, revealing a perception of shadiness that persisted well into the heyday of WSOP, Full Tilt, and PokerStars on TV: They did, of course, use a question mark disclaimer in the clue, but it probably wouldn’t have made sense without it.

• “Real Talk” with Daniel Negreanu

  Says it's OK to be gay and/or a vigilante

  16 Feb 2012

  I watched it … you probably will, too. Draw your own conclusions from a pre-launch YouTube timeline that starts with “Kangaroos and Emus” and “Get Out of the Friend Zone!!!” then goes to “Your Anus?” and “Closet”. One thing I couldn’t help but notice on this relatively brand-new DNegreanu YouTube channel is that there’s not [...]

• Secrets of PokerStars Revealed?

  DOJ financial pressure, culture of corporate camouflage, and the ultimate skill-game paradox

  15 Feb 2012

  Check out Wendeen Eolis’ story over at Poker Player Newspaper, the Manhattan-based poker journo who apparently isn’t gonna let the young whippersnappers at Subject:Poker and QuadJacks bastardize the reality of what’s going on in her courtside stomping grounds as this DOJ vs. old-school online poker story unfolds. Just last week Wendeen laid out why the [...]

• Spencer Bachus Hit with Ethics Probe

  Powerful online poker enemy neutralized by insider trading suspicions?

  11 Feb 2012

  Online pokerers can get their schadenfreude on, as one of our game’s staunchest opponents, Spencer Bachus (R-AL) faces a Congressional ethics probe for insider trading violations. The independent, non-partisan Office of Congressional Ethics believes Bachus was “betting” the stock market with privileged information, the Washington Post reports. OCE says they’ve been looking at the current [...]