Vegas Poker Blog

If you are like me and like to play fix limit poker, sometimes you need the betting controlled, when you jump back to no limit table , the bets can throw your game off. It is easy to get used […]

While Benny Binion gets credit for starting the World Series of Poker, its two poker players who should have a lot of the credit as well. After all, the game, which gave WSOP its origins, lasted five marathon months.
Nicholas œNick the Greek� Dandolos was, in 1949, the most famous poker player in the […]

Josh Arieh is a player who you might learn a lot from playing against, but you might want to observe him first. He is one tough customer!

The Atlanta-based Arieh started out playing in the back rooms of pool halls when he wasnt a courier for a law firm, and became a professional because […]

When you first started playing poker, did you just jump right in and learn as you went along, or did someone teach you the basics. As more and more people are making the leap into poker, there are a lot of places available for learning. So, if youre a novice, where do you […]

NAPALM is a regional poker game from the Northeast U.S. Although its exact origin isnt known, it became popular at Brandeis University (Massachusetts) but has now filtered down the coast to the Maryland and Virginia areas as well. How it came by the name, Napalm, isnt known either and its sometimes referred […]

Sometimes, you just have to tear yourself away from the poker table and spend some time with the family. Kids, wives, and husbands are just like that!
It isnt always easy to make the transition from poker addiction and find activities that will easily take your mind off poker. Heres a suggestion �watch […]

All over the world there are poker players just itching to get their heart broken at the 2006 WSOP. The odds are against them. Hey, if the odds are 500-1 against a top player, the guy down the block from you has worse ones! Thats a fact. Yet, the World Series […]

Texas Holdem is by far the most popular poker game these days, and theres good reason. Its fast, its fun and it encourages all different styles of players.
For most of us, we tend to play a loose game and wait for a strong hand to come along. But as your game skills improve, the […]

The World Series of Poker seems to have been with us so long that we usually dont think about it origins, but those origins, and its originator, are great poker legends.
We owe the whole thing to a guy by the name of Benny Binion.
Binion was a Dallas character of sorts, and someone who seemed to […]

A poker table was once an all male domain, but not anymore. More and more women are playing serious poker, and one of the top players period is a beauty by the name of Evelyn Ng.

The 31-year-old Toronto native started shooting pool at age 14, and grew up to work as a blackjack and […]