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There are 50 poker rooms in Las Vegas, so we thought you might appreciate the assistance of fellow degenerates in narrowing down the possibilities of where to play when you come to town. The votes have been tallied … and four places stood out above the rest … In what may or may not become a recurring

Dutch Boyd reportedly planning heist to get his poker career off life support. Recently it was announced that Binions has brought back a beloved icon of the casino’s rich history: Courtesy of the Las Vegas Review Journal - “The appearance of a $1 million display similar to the one that entertained

Tuscaloosa Hollywood Johnny is playing in a blackjack tourney at Binion’s, or maybe it’s the four queens … somewhere that isn’t the Rio. His first report: “Won my first table! Now only have to win 3 more and I will be $25k richer! Ah, yes, the end of Vegas desperation rituals kick in.

  It had already been a wild and fun night in a loose 3-6 Omaha Hi-Lo w/ full kill game at Binion’s and I was about to call it a night at 4 a.m. when this drunk Englishman stumbled to the table with a fist full of chips. I could tell right away this guy was going to be interesting, and likely to give away his stacks.

More Team Pokerati Tags: 2008-wsop, binions, Binions Poker Classic, HORSE, pat-poels, Pot Limit Omaha, wsop-satellite Another guy you may see representin’ at the tables: Pat Poels. Pat, of course, is the only two-time bracelet winner on the team.

The Venetian was on to something when they created their Deep Stack Extravaganza series of tournaments. Not so shockingly, the low-stakes masses flocked to these events where you could compete against sizable fields will skill-rewarding starting stacks for hundreds, as opposed to thousands, of dollars.

This is a little bit of old news, but I just watched it for the first time, and thought some of you who also might not have seen it yet would be interested in Daniel Negreanu’s very thorough and sober analysis of the WSOP’s delayed main event final table: In it he reminds even yours truly about how close the World Series was to going out of business in 2004.

I wrote this post right after the 2007 WSOP, but I hadn’t pressed publish yet. With all the talk about structural changes and travel plans for the upcoming WSOP, now seem’s a good time for us to think about our (poker players’) behavior for the upcoming WSOP: I have a request for all poker players.