Meet Sharron, the new tourney director at The Lodge. There are lots of amateur poker leagues out there, and with all due respect, we don\’t pay as much attention to them as we used to unless there\’s allegations of grift […]
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(L to R) Veteran Lodge amateurs John Manby, Aaron Autry, and Fubu … still tearing it up on not-so-faded felts harkening back to the old-old days of Pokerati.com. As those of you following @Pokerati on twitter are well-aware, I ended
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Lou Diamond Phillips is the lone (non-poker) celebrity remaining in the main event, with a respectable 607,000 chips. (Avg. is 481k.) I\’ve played with him once before … and it was a memorably odd night of poker, to say the
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As you probably know, the PPA is collecting short videos at MyPokerStory.com. The purpose, as far as I can tell, is to put something together for the coming legislative push that (quickly) shows on-the-fence Congresspeople that poker players are a
What’s Your Poker Story? It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …
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The money bubble bursts in the $40k NLH — Neil Chriss suffers — and Pauly, Benjo, and I are there to capture it live while talking about sheep hookers. By the time this event gets to the final table, it\’s
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Lesson #1 in politics: It\’s not about what makes sense or creating any legal consistency. Proof: In Dallas, it\’s legal to ride a motorcycle without a helmet, but illegal to ride a bicycle without one. With that in mind, another
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Playing under our little satanic-spade banner … David Pflaster. Some of you may recall … he got his start playing at the Lodge and before you knew it was getting aces tattooed on his forearms, dealing in Dallas, and about
Former Lodge Amateur Poker player and Rounder Club honcho Terry Keratsopolous is at the final table at a WSOP-Circuit event in New Orleans. Haven\’t found any semi-live coverage yet … but just an FYI for those of you who\’d like
I loved being a tournament director — training dealers was particularly fun at the Lodge, and I can think of no truer example of getting to be a benevolent dictator. You have some basic big rules to follow, and then
North Texas fireworks kingpin Ran Nelson brought his tight-aggressive Dallas game recently to the Mandalay Bay. Though I haven’t been writing much about anything it, I have been hitting the tables here in Vegas. Have sampled a handful of rooms
