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Five Star Poker

My poker roots go back to The Eccentric’s Club in Dublin and Binion’s Horseshoe in Downtown Las Vegas. First person I met in Eccentric’s Club was Colette Doherty, who was already a legend having won the first ever Irish Open. We became friends. Still are …

Big Tournaments In Ireland

… accidentally visiting the WSOP in Binions, wasn’t messing about! He …

An Empty Seat At A Full Irish Open

… Irish Open, Terry Rogers, in Binions going back to 1980 or …

RIP Micky Moran. An Unlikely Pioneer.

Much has been said over the years about Irish bookmaker Terry Rogers bringing no limit poker tournaments to Europe in the early eighties after a chance visit to The WSOP in Binion’s. I should know. I said a lot of it. What doesn’t get talked about is the …

A Little Hope Is Better Than Great Pity

After a bout of Covid Light and boredom, it was good to get back to the poker and craic, which is par for the course in Dublin’s Sporting Emporium. A couple of days later, I got a call from a guy from Loughrea who said he was the son of a cousin of mine. …

Lest We Forget

… John “Scof” Sheffield of WSOP Binions fame. I had so much …

Bad News. Good News.

About a week before the end of WSOP 2021, Carol Mikharov clocked out after her shift in The Rio card room. She wasn’t feeling well, went to hospital and, sadly, never came home. She joined the list of Americans we loved, including her sidekick John “Scof …

Parkinson: Back To The Future

… World Series Of Poker in Binions, Las Vegas. Or I could …

The Luck Of The Irish: WSOP Bracelet Winners & Main Event Finalists

With the Irish, it’s never easy. If you were to ask Irish poker players how many WSOP bracelets the Irish have won, you would, as usual, get lots of stupid answers, as well as lots of five, six, and seven bracelet replies. All of the latter are correct. …

Parkinson: A Double Treble

A hugely unlikely double treble owed its origins to a conversation I had at 7 am in 1997 in a bar on the Champs-Elysées with George Geary, a Manchester player who had been a frequent visitor to the Irish Open in the glory days. It wasn’t as bad as it …

 
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