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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 [...]

I have vivid memories of $5 bills. About 70 years ago, I was a ring bearer in a wedding. I received a thank-you note and a $5 bill. Back then, that was a fair amount of money. In fact, $5 at that [...]

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 [...]

Up early Saturday. Chores and errands. But by 10 a.m. or so, I’m on the phone and reserving a seat at a poker room in far western Las Vegas. Normally avoid Saturday; they are often crowded and [...]