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 …
… accidentally visiting the WSOP in Binions, wasn’t messing about! He …
… Irish Open, Terry Rogers, in Binions going back to 1980 or …
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 …
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. …
… John “Scof” Sheffield of WSOP Binions fame. I had so much …
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 …
… World Series Of Poker in Binions, Las Vegas. Or I could …
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. …
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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