Big Hand

Is there any more hotly discussed starting hand in poker besides A-K? We would say no. Some experts refer to it as a monster hand worthy of committing all the chips preflop. Others exercise [...]

I wore one my favorite caps to a poker game the other day. The cap gets a variety of reactions. I wore it once to a room and the dealer waited one lap before asking me about it. Other players at [...]

Our hero happened to notice that a locals poker emporium in Las Vegas had some high-hand bonuses at odd hours — such as the early morning hours. So after one normal evening, I arose after a few [...]

It’s a Sunday afternoon somewhere in the urban haze of the northwest Las Vegas Valley. There is NFL playoff football on the big screens, and the cards are in the air in a cozy poker room. The day [...]

The hour was late. I looked at my stack of chips again, but it was still short. Not seriously short, but I was missing $100 and some change from my buy-in. I made some stabs at small pots, but [...]

We are underway in a poker game at Red Rock Resort in the early afternoon on another day ending in “y.” Two women are chatting amiably. A guy with a U.S. Marine shirt (Semper Fi!) is involved in [...]

Four hours of live poker in an icily cold air-conditioned poker room on a record-hot July day is more than enough. So I was ready to call it a day. I was up early on a semi-dramatic all-in with [...]

I had an instant distrust of the guy who sat down next to me in the poker room of a locals joint in Las Vegas on another day ending in “y.” He was wearing dark glasses. He was wearing [...]

Once again on Sunday, the South Point in far south Las Vegas was bustling. Crowded race and sports book. Busy poker room. Full table games. And a long line that seemed to barely budge for the [...]

A friend and colleague suggested something a little different over the holiday weekend — how about playing in a poker tournament at the South Point in far south Las Vegas?Had some doubts. I [...]