10-21-2010
A look at some of the World Series of Poker's most unusual bracelets events throughout history.
07-23-2009
Ed 'Junior' Whited came from the Walter Clyde 'Puggy' Pearson school of poker. A hefty man who maintained thick sideburns and kept his hair slicked...
06-25-2009
Even though poker was technically illegal, it wasn’t very hard to find a high-stakes game in Texas in the 1950s and 1960s as long as you...
06-11-2009
Out of all the people who have been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, perhaps none has been more deserving than Bill Boyd...
05-29-2009
Most players who experience frequent and massive losses at the poker table are not joyful creatures. Jimmy Chagra was a glaring exception to this rule...
05-28-2009
The first time Jimmy Chagra entered a Las Vegas casino he brought with him several suitcases stuffed with cash and not the least bit of sense. The man gambled...
05-21-2009
As many great poker players as the state of Texas has churned out, it has produced just as many fish...
05-14-2009
Some play poker for the thrill of it, others for the challenge it provides. Fred 'Sarge' Ferris...
04-30-2009
By the early 1980s, 'Suitcase' Sam Angel’s financial hardship was most readily observed in the quality of jewelry he peddled. Some customers actually complained...
04-23-2009
In the Las Vegas of yesteryear, a world teeming with vivid characters, none was more striking than 'Suitcase' Sam Angel...
04-16-2009
In an era when the main event of the World Series of Poker routinely pays the top 600-plus finishers, it’s hard to imagine the event ever being winner-take-all. From 1970 to 1977, however...
04-09-2009
After hitting rock bottom in 2005 and 2006, Layne Flack committed himself to getting his life back on track. He stopped drinking at the poker table. He separated himself from some of his old friends. He took on the services...
04-02-2009
Poker is such an integral part of Layne Flack's being he often peppers his speech with Mickey McDermott-like phrases such as, "Life is like a poker game....
03-26-2009
In addition to fattening his bankroll, Crandell Addington's decision to move west with Tom Moore in 1967 would have an even greater impact on his poker career, for it was his connection with Moore that secured him an invitation...
03-19-2009
While newspapermen started writing about the World Series of Poker during its very first year, Benny Binion's tournament wasn't captured on film until 1973, when CBS News made a documentary narrated by...
03-12-2009
By the mid-1980s, Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker was firmly ensconced as the second biggest poker tournament in the world. In 1984, the field for the main event was actually big enough to force Slim to change...
03-05-2009
Once upon a time poker tournaments with $10,000 buy-ins were as rare as blizzards in Las Vegas. In fact, from 1972 to 1978 the main event of the World Series of Poker was the only tournament in the world that could lay claim...
02-19-2009
By the late 1980s, the Mayfair Club had firmly established itself as the finest poker club in all of New York City. What differentiated it from the many other underground establishments in the "Five Boroughs" was the unique...
02-12-2009
In the early 1980s, very few people outside of a small community of bridge and backgammon players in New York City had ever heard of the Mayfair Club. Founded in the 1940s by Harry "Fishy" Fishbein, winner of twelve national...
