High Stakes Places and Poker
Las Vegas - Places and Poker - High Stakes
If you're any kind of poker player at all, your journeys will eventually take you to Las Vegas, Sin City, the Mecca of poker. To help make your visit unforgettable, here's your seven-nights-a-week guide to Las Vegas. If you can survive this, baby, you can take anything.
New York City - Places and Poker - High Stakes
Eight million New Yorkers claim that NYC is the greatest city on earth, and eight million New Yorkers can't be wrong -- except for one thing: no poker. Oh, sure you have the odd underground club, holes in various bowery or west side walls. And no doubt you can find high stakes home games on the top floor of the Dakota or the Waldorf. But the fact is that the city that never sleeps isn't even on the poker map.
San Francisco - Places and Poker - High Stakes
Here's the full four-eleven on what's hot in my home town. San Francisco! If you're ever coming to the City and you're looking for the places to be and be seen, here's all you need to know.
Los Angeles - Places and Poker - High Stakes
Welcome to Los Angeles, the Big Orange, home to Venice Beach, Hollywood (and Hollywood Home Game Sensation Vince Van Patten) and high stakes poker action. When people tell me Vegas rules for poker, I call bullshit on that -- they haven't seen the Commerce Casino on a Saturday night.
Monte Carlo - Places and Poker - High Stakes
Can you find Monte Carlo on a map? Not the one in Las Vegas, the other one, the glamour one, the one in Monaco, a tiny little countryette tucked between Italy, France and the Mediterranean Sea. Yeah, I couldn't find it either. Not till I went there, but now that I've been there I can't wait to go back.
Winnipeg - Places and Poker - High Stakes
I won't lie to you: It was a girl. (Hey, isn't it always a girl?) If I hadn't met her by the pool at Bellagio, I might never have discovered Winnipeg: Canada's hotbed of hip at latitude 20 degrees north.
Lake Tahoe - Places and Poker - High Stakes
The best thing about the World Series of Poker Circuit is that it's brought big-time tournament poker back to one of the most beautiful places on earth, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. If you ever get a chance to go there -- for poker, or skiing, or just being -- run, don't walk. You won't regret a minute.
Miami - Places and Poker - High Stakes
I hadn't spent a lot of time in Miami before I went down there in mid-'05 to man the Yahoo hospitality suite at the MTV Video Music Awards. Turns out to be really my kind of town, and though I've only had a chance to scratch the surface of what Miami has to offer, it's a pretty sweet surface.
