Poker Related Reading
World Series of Poker to Make Internet Debut... last year's winner walked away with $2 Million!!
Here's a bit: "The 34th annual World Series of Poker at Binion's Horseshoe is expected to draw as many as 8,000 players from around the globe as well as hundreds of tourists who will watch an event that has become the gambling industry's top spectator sport.
For the first time this year, hundreds more are expected to watch the event live from their homes thanks to Internet technology that is less than a year old. Anyone over 18 with a credit card can purchase for $14.95 live webcasts of the 33 poker finals games that started this week and will take place over the next month. For $29.95, viewers can buy an Internet feed of the final, five-day championship game of hold 'em poker that begins May 19 and ends May 23 with the winner of an estimated $2 million pot."
Good Jim and Bad Jim and Mostly Lucky Jim is an article that appeared in the NY Times.
Here's a bit: "A-3 is not a good hand in Mr. McManus's game of choice, Texas hold'em, in which each player gets two cards to combine with five common ones for the highest possible hand. Even A-10 is questionable. But poker is a game of luck as well as skill, as Mr. McManus amply illustrates in his newly published nonfiction account of the 2000 World Series of Poker, "Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs and Binion's World Series of Poker" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)."
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