POKER
I've been writing about poker since 1988. It's a funny story how I got started...
One day I drove by the Commerce Casino in bucolic Commerce, California. Traffic was snarled, so thought I might go in and kill some time. I went in, plunked down my $20 and took a seat in the game.
Needless to say, they went through me like a freight train through the wind.
Needless to say, I was hooked.
Keenly aware that all good addicts need a means to support their jones, I immediately contacted Card Player Magazine and made the following pitch:
"Look, I know nothing about poker, but I'm keen to learn, and while I'm learning, I'd like to write about it for (and get paid by) your fine magazine. Kind of a 'rake's progress' for poker."
Well, they took the bait, and I've been writing about poker ever since.
By now my body of poker writing runs to more than a million words, including five books --
THE PRO POKER PLAYBOOK
KILLER POKER: STRATEGY AND TACTICS FOR WINNING POKER PLAY
KILLER POKER ONLINE: CRUSHING THE INTERNET GAME
THE KILLER POKER HOLD'EM HANDBOOK: A WORKBOOK FOR WINNERS
POKER NIGHT: WINNING AT HOME, IN CASINOS, AND BEYOND
-- all of which you can order from the send money page.
Submitted for your poker-reading pleasure...
An excerpt from KILLER POKER.
An excerpt from KILLER POKER ONLINE.
An excerpt from THE KILLER POKER HOLD'EM HANDBOOK.
An excerpt from POKER NIGHT.
And a whole entire novella entitled SURF LAS VEGAS.
Not enough poker for you? Then here's more: a representative sample of my poker writing between the years 1988 and 2004:
When I think of the mileage -- and the pleasure -- that I've gotten out of playing poker and writing about poker for all these years, I thank the lucky stars and snarled traffic that blew me into the Commerce Casino in the first place.
Even if they did go through me like a freight train through the wind.