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Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas ... » Oct 7, 2014 ...On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the ...was playing at a row of four low-limit Game Kings outside the entrance to a Chinese fast food joint at the Fremont, smoke swirling around him and '90s pop... Wired.com

The truth about Dan Bilzerian | British GQ » You look at the guns, and you look at all these women coming and going...and it's hard not to wonder how it's all going to end." ....Witteles, a well-known player, when describing his first game with Bilzerian to Poker News, a website owned by Antanas Guogo, a Lithuanian-Australian businessman known as the "Australian... Gq-magazine.co.uk

Poker & Pop Culture: Joseph McCarthy Overplays the Red Scare Card » Feb 7, 2017 ...Poker & Pop Culture: Joseph McCarthy was a "demonic" poker player, and a vicious cold warrior, too. ...who had worked in the State Department, was present with Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference at the end of WWII, and helped form the United Nations before leaving government to head... Pokernews.com

Poker-playing music exec Alan Meltzer leaves $1.5 million to ... » Jan 30, 2012 ...Alan Meltzer, also a prolific poker player, left $1 million to his chauffeur and $500,000 to his doorman after his sudden death last October. ...Wind-up, the largest independently-owned record label in the world, has bands including Evanescence and Creed on its books. Meltzer ...Most watched News videos. Dailymail.co.uk

Poker & Pop Culture: Tricky Dick Talks Poker in the White House ... » Jan 31, 2017 ...Before his bluffs were called during Watergate, Richard Nixon was known to be a poker player. VIDEO: Richard Nixon talks poker on the secret White House recordings. Long before he became President of the United States — and then became the first and only president ever to resign from the office... Pokernews.com

Poker & Pop Culture: John Wayne Keeps the Game Square ... » Jan 17, 2017 ...John Wayne plays "Rock" in "Tall in the Saddle," where he enforces law and order at the poker table. ...Much like other early films we've been recently reviewing here like the silent comedy Dr. Jack from the 1920s and the crime drama Dead End from the 1930s, Tall in the Saddle uses poker to highlight... Pokernews.com

The Oral History Of The 2003 World Series Of Poker Main Event ... » Sep 26, 2014 ...Poker, of course, involves a whole lot of sitting around, waiting for something to happen, trying to stay centered until cards worth playing are slid your way. So poker players riffle their chips. They do it to announce to the other players, This isn't my "first time at the poker table; see, look at the chip tricks I can... Deadspin.com

Poker & Pop Culture: That Time Harry Truman Let Winston Churchill ... » Jan 24, 2017 ...Some presidential poker stories, including one about Harry Truman "soft playing" Winston Churchill. Poker & Pop Culture: Some stories (some true, some perhaps not) about U.S. presidents playing poker. A new president .....Poker & Pop Culture: Play by the Book or Risk a "Dead Poker & Pop... Pokernews.com

How Poker Got Its Bad Name: Sol Smith & the Steamboat Hustle » Sep 26, 2017 ...You know how poker keeps trying to get rid of its reputation of being a 'shady' game played by 'shady' people in 'shady' places? Sure you do. But how ....many months later. [The following is an excerpt from the book Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith, 1868]... Pokerlistings.com

Dan Bilzerian's Life of Partying and Poker - WSJ » Sep 16, 2014 ...That career has been lucrative, by his account: He says he earned $50 million playing poker in a recent stretch of 12 or 14 months. Mr. Bilzerian was little known in 2007 when he showed up in a Lake Tahoe, Nev., casino carrying a suitcase stuffed with cash and looking for a game, recalls Todd Witteles,... Wsj.com