The Surly Poker Gnome

The poker games here in Vegas seem to be pretty terrible, with fewer tourists throwing their money around like it grows on trees. In contras...

If anyone wanted to claim that the economy is doing just fine, they could point to the bustling Commerce Casino with its loose-passive games...

I leave for L.A. on Thanksgiving Day for a trip that will include seeing the USC-Notre Dame game at the Coliseum and gambling at the Commerc...

I played in a $20 home game sng with a few friends and some guys I met for the first time. It was like 2004 all over again, like the poker b...

At a spread-limit hold'em table in Biloxi in 2004, a player got check-raised on the river in a large pot. I don't remember the hand ...

I took down the monthly WPBT event today. It was a pretty solid field. I only really got lucky on the last hand, when I hit a set of Queens...

I got in to Phoenix late Monday night, hopeful that I would have enough time to check out the games at Casino Arizona . Fortunately, I found...

When I arrived at the home game last night, it was four-handed, with two of the players just learning the rules and basics of Omaha Hi/Lo. T...