http://www.biggerdeal.com Poker's Top Writers Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:57:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On 29 April, at a grand ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland, I enjoyed the distinct honour of being elected the first President of the International Federation of Poker (IFP). It's an abrupt change of career course for me, but a challenge I already find both energising and rewarding. The chance to lead ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2009/06/17/the-international-federation-of-poker-ifp/ Elvis Presley was leaning a against his pink 1954 Cadillac in front of Lubbock, Texas' historic Cotton Club. The small crowd were mesmerized by his great looks, cockiness, and charisma. He put on quite a show, doing nearly all the talking. Elvis bragged about his sexual conquests, using language you ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2009/02/02/elvis-presley-buddy-holly-joe-ely-and-the-cotton-club/ I consider it symptomatic of a serious character flaw on my part that when someone mentions the ‘Poker Gods’, I tend to contradict them with ramblings about standard deviation. Evidently, this is not what people want to hear when their aces get cracked by the monkey playing ‘in the dark’ ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2009/01/25/poker-god-delusion/ Congrats to bluenose62 of Birmingham, chip leader most of the way through our December tourney – and its eventual, emphatic winner. In a field thinned by Christmas parties and there’s-a-lot-of-it-about – gastric flu prevented even our resident whiz-kid Oliver Chubb from playing in his own eponymous tournament –there was high percentage ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2008/12/17/dec-tng-report/ On Tuesday I had the pleasure of sitting at Tony Holden’s shoulder and sharing a bottle of Merlot as he played in Bigger Deal’s monthly Tuesday Night game. Trying to play decent poker while keeping notes for the blog and one eye on Dani Behr prancing around a jungle in ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2008/11/21/nov-tng-report/ This month we celebrate our New York correspondent, Peter Alson, in the password for our Tuesday Night Game. If he has finally recovered from celebrating the election of poker-playing Barack Obama – see my piece for Tina Brown’s TheDailyBeast.com – Pete will be joining in himself from the Big Apple. Nephew ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2008/11/11/tng-tues-18th-nov/ Anthony Holden’s new poker strategy manual, HOLDEN ON HOLD’EM, was published last Thursday by Little, Brown. By way of celebration, BiggerDeal.com is proud to present an exclusive, five-part extract chronicling the origins and history of Texas Hold’em. If the first version of poker arrived in the United States in the 1820s, ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2008/11/10/hold-me-darling-part-5/ Anthony Holden’s new poker strategy manual, HOLDEN ON HOLD’EM, was published on Thursday by Little, Brown. By way of celebration, BiggerDeal.com is proud to present an exclusive, five-part extract chronicling the origins and history of Texas Hold’em. Texas Hold’em was introduced to Europe in the 1980s by the Irish bookmaker and ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2008/11/09/hold-me-darling-part-4/ Anthony Holden’s new poker strategy manual, HOLDEN ON HOLD’EM, is published this week by Little, Brown. By way of celebration, BiggerDeal.com is proud to present an exclusive, five-part extract chronicling the origins and history of Texas Hold’em. Bill Boyd, Sid Wyman, Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson, ‘Sailor’ Roberts, Amarillo Slim, Jack Straus, ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2008/11/08/hold-me-darling-part-3/ Anthony Holden’s new poker strategy manual, HOLDEN ON HOLD’EM, is published this week by Little, Brown. By way of celebration, BiggerDeal.com is proud to present an exclusive, five-part extract chronicling the origins and history of Texas Hold’em. Where once stood the Dunes now stands the Bellagio, opened in 1998 by the ... http://www.biggerdeal.com/2008/11/07/hold-me-darling-part-2/