June 2008 - Poker Anorak
Poker Laws And The USA
TO New Mexico, where the New Mexico Gaming Control Board is investigating whether a poker tournament hosted earlier this week in Akela by the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma was "improper". For improper, read...
Barack Obama's Poker Change
IN Las Vegas for the WSOP, Barack Obama arrives. There is no escape. But what's that in his pocket?...
Poker Pros Need To WIn
FOR the past six years an amateur has won the WSOP Main Event. Poker is not football's Premier League or the Formula 1 procession - in poker anyone can win. But still the poker pros...
Poker: I Read Therefore I Play
CAN you learn to play poker from a book? If poker theory as useful as poker practical?...
Phil Hellmuth And Old School WSOP
POKER is going mainstream. Poker has gone mainstream. At the WSOP, over 4,000 players entered the $1,500 buy-in No-limit Hold'em event. "Is poker popular?" asks Phil Hellmuth. "My face is on 12 million beer cans...
Slow WSOP Play Is OK For UK
SLOW play at the WSOP. On Saturday, the six-handed final table was slow. It took 212 hands to eliminate the last five players. A glance at the statistics shows that the game almost 100 hands...
Las Vegas Casino Rocks To The Big One
TO the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, for the USA Rock Paper Scissors League's big hand-off (that right?). Indeed, dear readers, what else to do when in Vegas between WSOP games then keep...
The Roots Of WSOP
The World Series Of Poker is almost upon us and Cardplayer magazine looks at the roots of the tournament....
Poker, Politics And Power
IN "Poker group has important allies on Hill", politico looks at the US poker lobby....