2005 November 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings
What are you doing over the next four days? With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, and the weekend upon us, you may have some time on your hands.
Today let’s talk about those long shot hands that make everybody’s tongue wag and create the stories that are told over and over again in the “I can top that” contests. Some time ago, fellow columnist Richard G. Burke wrote about a very unusual hand where both four Kings and four Aces were cracked by a Royal Flush. Impossible? Of course not. These kinds of incredible hands occur all the time. Just maybe not in your game.
Danny, Megan, Earl, Maude and the Rookie were seated at a table at the rear of the Carnegie Deli, steps away from the Mirage poker room.
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We came to Japan to play poker; so far it’s been anything but. We were rudely introduced to Japan’s underworld, but survived an altercation which led to an invitation to visit Iwatasan, the number one mob chieftain. Our host Sugi Yamamoto, scored points with the big man and won assurance we’d be troubled no more. Hobby and I were ready to flee the enclave and return to Tokyo before anyone had a change of mind. However…,
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Honey’s not talking about the House of Cards. Her bodyguard, “Big Elmo,” lays sprawled, half-in and half-out of the front door of “The Girls,” Honey’s Strip Club/Poker Room. What’s left of Honey herself is splattered all over her front steps.
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The World Series of Poker circuit event is into its second week at Paris casino in Las Vegas, culminating next week on November 22 with the final …
It is no secret that online poker room, Absolute Poker, has received some flak in the past for its horrendously ugly tables. That …
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