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 were to sit at a table and find a lady ready with chips. There was one, though, and she not only played poker, supporting herself despite the tricksters out there, but she also came ready with a sharp knife and occasionally a six-shooter just in case. Alice Ivers was born in Devonshire, England, in 1951 but moved to the United States at a you

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 poker room in Houston and you’re certain to hear the story. In fact, if you play Texas Hold’em anywhere you’re probably going to hear about the events in Deadwood, South Dakota almost a hundred and fifty years ago. If you’d been there, you might have been surprised by the constant activity… People move along the dusty streets with what looks

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 poker at a Houston poker room dedicated to giving you the best Texas Hold’em gaming experience you could ever have. The poker chips were red. It didn’t occur to Thomas to think that they might actually be magenta or fire red or ruby or one of another five or six hundred possible marketing-driven names the manufacturers might have come up with

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 hands I won and lost and fish I caught and lost. The sturgeon that got away was bigger than any fish anyone I’ve ever known has ever caught; and I once played Texas Hold’em with Marlon Brando at a poker room in Houston. Am I telling the truth or am I bluffing? Well, one of the two things I wrote was true. Poker’s that way, though. Sit down

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 brand new in reference to pilots, and you smile as you think about it. Of course, sometimes the smiles are hard to come by when you think about the horrific battles you’ve seen from the air and the danger you and your men experience every single time you take to the skies. On the other hand, there’s plenty of excitement back at the base, too. T

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 fame) played poker with Linda Ronstadt. I certainly wouldn’t take anything away from a man who’s won fourteen World Series of Poker bracelets and I like life in the fast line as much as the other guy. Nonetheless, there are some poker eagles I find a whole lot more interesting than even Phil and classic rock. Imagine yourself in Europe for