Poker and Passing the Buck
Texas hold’em has a specific reason for a dealer button. Like just about any Houston poker room (or for that matter at all, any casino...
Poker and the President
You hope against hope your hands aren’t shaking as you toss in the chips. It’s been a hard night. You’re a good player but that doesn’t...
Poker Alice in the Old West
We might meet a lot of colorful people playing poker in Houston but there was a time when things would be very surprising indeed if you...
THE DEAD MAN’S HAND
There are quite a few hands in poker that have become famous but perhaps none has more notoriety than the dead man’s hand. Play in any...
GOING ALL IN
Here’s something a little different for you today, an experience you just might find at the Hangar if you come to play some safe, legal...
Will the Real Dead Man's Hand Please Stand Up...?
I’m a fisherman. Yes, that makes me a poker player and a fisherman. That pretty much means I am filled with about a million stories about...
THE FLYBOYS OF POKER
You know the guns are prone to jamming so you take great care to polish every round. People are already calling you an Ace, something...
POKER AND THE EAGLE SQUADRONS
You may have heard that Phil Hellmuth calls the best poker players “Eagles.” You may have heard that Glen Frey and Don Henley (of Eagles...
POKER IN THE TRENCHES
The sounds of shells exploding nearby used to cause terror to claim you, to take you completely so that you shook and felt all of your...
HOUSTON and POKER
There aren’t a great many games, sports or activities uniquely connected to specific periods of American history like the Wild West is...
