Poker Legends

Here you will find stories about players that have achieved legendary status in the game of poker. Tales from the 1970's and 80's when poker was in its infancy can also be found here. Stories about the history of the game of poker are also available in this category.

• Legends of the Game - Brian "Sailor" Roberts

  May 04, 2005,

  An ongoing series exploring some of poker and Vegas legends from the early years. ...

   

• Legends of the game: Ken Uston (1935-1987)

  April 26, 2005,

  An ongoing series exploring some of poker and Vegas legends from the early years.

   

• Legends of the Game - Walter Clyde

  April 19, 2005,

  A profile of poker legend Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson as told by Al Moe, one of Puggy's contemporaries.

   

• Legends of the Game: Amarillo Slim

  April 11, 2005,

  Poker came out of the dark ages when Amarillo Slim burst upon the scene in 1972. From all the hoopla, you'd have thought this man from Amarillo, Texas had just stumbled his way to the poker tables in Las Vegas the week before.

   

• Legends of the Game: Bob "Poker Coach" Ciaffone

  April 05, 2005,

  Bob Ciaffone was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 10, 1940. At the age of four, his aunt taught him to play chess. That singular event may have helped spell the life that Bob would thereafter live.

   

• Legends of the Game: Nick the Greek

  March 31, 2005,

  Nicholas Andreas Dandolos was born in Rethymnon, Crete in 1893. It was a luxurious life he was born into as the son of a rug merchant, and he attended the Greek Evangelical College in Smyma where he studied Philosophy.

   

• Legends of the Game: Johnny Moss (1907-1995)

  March 24, 2005,

  Johnny Moss was born into a family of hard-working people in the town of Marshall, Texas in 1907.

   

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