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Tom McEvoy
Thomas K. McEvoy (born November 14, 1944, in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a professional poker player, author and member of the Poker Hall of Fame, 2013 inductee. He is best known for winning the 1983 World Series of Poker Main Event. Early life McEvoy was born and raised in Michigan. He was an accountant, but after he was laid off from his job, he took up poker full-time in 1978. He first learned to play poker when he was five years old and would regularly get in trouble for playing it in grade school. Poker career McEvoy's first cash in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) came in 1982 when he finished 6th in the $1,000 Razz event. He won his first WSOP bracelets the following year winning the $1,000 Limit Hold'em event, defeating Irish professional poker player Donnacha O'Dea heads-up to win the tournament, and later winning the 1983 WSOP Main Event. He was the first Main Event winner to earn his buy-in through a single table satellite tournament. His 7 1/2 hour long heads-up mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 World Series Of Poker
The 2010 World Series of Poker was the 41st annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, and ran from May 28 to July 17. There were 57 bracelet events, culminating in the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship that began on July 5. The November Nine concept returned for the third year, with the Main Event finalists returning on November 6. A notable change from 2009 was the revamping of the $50,000 buy-in tournament. From its inception in 2006 through 2009, it had been a H.O.R.S.E. event in which play rotated between Texas hold 'em, Omaha 8-or-better, Razz, stud, and stud 8-or-better, all played with a limit betting structure. In 2010, it became an "8-game" tournament, rotating between the five H.O.R.S.E. games followed by rounds of no-limit hold 'em, pot-limit Omaha (high only), and limit 2–7 triple draw. Once the final table was reached, play switched exclusively to no-limit hold 'em (as was the case in the 2006 H.O.R.S.E. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Leonidas
Alfredo C. "Toto" Leonidas (born October 10, 1960 in Bacolod, Philippines) is a Filipino poker player with over $3,200,000 in live tournament lifetime winnings. His 24 WSOP cashes account for $812,218 of those winnings. , worldseriesofpoker.com In the , Leonidas won a bracelet playing . He also won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binion's Horseshoe
Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel, formerly Binion's Horseshoe, is a casino on Fremont Street along the Fremont Street Experience mall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned by TLC Casino Enterprises. The casino is named for its founder, Benny Binion, whose family ran it from its founding in 1951 until 2004. The hotel, which had 366 rooms, closed in 2009. TLC reopened 81 of the rooms as a boutique hotel called Hotel Apache in July 2019. History Binion's Horseshoe (1951–2004) Benny Binion bought the Eldorado Club and Hotel Apache in 1951, re-opening them as Binion's Horseshoe (also called the Horseshoe Casino). The casino's interior had a frontier flavor, like an old-style riverboat, with low ceilings and velvet wallpaper. It was the first casino in downtown Las Vegas (also called Glitter Gulch) to replace sawdust-covered floors with carpeting, and was the first to offer comps to all gamblers, not just those who bet big money. Binion also instituted high table limits. When B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Binion
Lester Ben Binion (November 20, 1904 – December 5, 1989), better known as Benny Binion, was an American gambling icon, career criminal, and convicted murderer who established illegal gambling operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area. He would later relocate to Nevada, where gambling was legal, and open the successful Binion's Horseshoe casino in downtown Las Vegas. Early history Benny Binion was born and raised in Pilot Grove, Texas, north of Dallas. His parents initially kept him out of school due to poor health. His father, a horse trader, let him accompany him on trips. While the outdoor life restored his health, Binion never had any formal education. As he traveled with his father, the young man learned to gamble, a favorite pastime when horse traders met up with farmers and merchants during county fair trade days. Criminal history Binion's FBI file reveals a criminal history dating back to 1924. At age 18 he moved to El Paso, where he began moonshining during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Binion
Jack Binion is an American businessman. Binion is the son of casino magnate Benny Binion and worked for his father at Binion's Horseshoe, a casino and hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Biography Binion became president of the Horseshoe in 1963 at the age of 26. His stature within the organization grew following the Horseshoe Casino's 1970 hosting of the first World Series of Poker, which would become the largest poker tournament in the world. Privately held, Binion's Horseshoe was one of Nevada's most successful casino operations. In 1998, following a protracted legal battle for control of the Horseshoe among Benny Binion's heirs, Binion sold his interest in Binion's Horseshoe to his sister, Becky Behnen, while retaining a token 1% interest in the operation so that he could lawfully retain his Nevada Gaming License. He also acquired the rights to the Horseshoe brand outside of Nevada. Binion went on to form Horseshoe Gaming Holding Corporation which developed and operated sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevrolet Corvette
The Chevrolet Corvette is a two-door, two-passenger luxury sports car manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet since 1953. With eight design generations, noted sequentially from C1 to C8, the Corvette is noted for its performance and distinctive fiberglass or composite panels. It was front-engined through 2019 and mid-engined since. The Corvette is currently the only two-seat sports car produced by a major United States auto manufacturer and it serves as Chevrolet's halo vehicle. In 1953, GM executives accepted a suggestion by Myron Scott, then the assistant director of the Public Relations department, to name the company's new sports car after the corvette, a small maneuverable warship. The first model, a convertible, was introduced at the 1953 GM Motorama as a concept car; production models went on sale later that year. In 1963, the second generation was introduced in coupe and convertible styles. Originally manufactured in Flint, Michigan, and St. Louis, Missouri, the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Varkonyi
Robert Varkonyi (born 1961) is an American poker player, best known for winning the Main Event of the 2002 World Series of Poker. Early life Varkonyi was born in and raised in NYC. He first started playing poker as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After his graduation in 1983 (with degrees in EECS and from the MIT Sloan School of Management), he was an investment banker in Brooklyn, New York for a number of years before beginning to play tournament poker. Poker career Varkonyi is most well known for winning the 2002 World Series of Poker Main Event, taking the $2 million prize. In the final hand, Varkonyi's defeated Julian Gardner's on a board of , resulting in Varkonyi's full house defeating Gardner's flush. In the WSOP Main Event the following year, Varkonyi was at the televised feature table, playing in defense of his championship. Two-time world champion Doyle Brunson was also featured at the table for a while. Later in the broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PokerStars
PokerStars is an online poker cardroom that was a part of The Stars Group until it was sold to Flutter Entertainment on May 5, 2020. It can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for the Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It is the largest real money online poker site in the world, controlling over two-thirds of the total online poker market. A PokerStars.com online satellite tournament produced the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion, Chris Moneymaker. As the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site, Moneymaker's 2003 win was an important factor in catalyzing the poker boom of the mid-2000s. The press has called this the "Moneymaker effect." History PokerStars launched its beta play-money-only site on September 11, 2001. The company began offering real money wagering on December 12, 2001. PokerStars was originally a Costa Rican company, Rational Enterprises, which was majority owned by the Israeli Scheinberg family. The compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CardPlayer Magazine
Card players are those participating in a card game. Various names are given to card players based on their role or position. Position Games of Anglo-American origin In games of Anglo-American origin played in English-speaking countries, age refers to the order of priority in which players make the first lead, bid or bet, based on their position at the table.''The Language of Cards'' at www.parlettgames.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2018 This changes constantly as the dealer rotates either clockwise or anticlockwise around the table. They are traditionally referred to as follows: ; Eldest hand (or elder hand): the player who enjoys greatest priority and e.g. is the first to receive cards in the deal. Elder is the non-dealer in two-hand games. ; Youngest hand (or younger hand): the player who has the lowest p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Stern (poker Player)
Dr. Max Stern is a professional poker player, pediatrician and author. He is the co-author of ''Championship Stud'', with Tom McEvoy and Linda Johnson. Stern contributed to the sections on Seven-card stud and Seven-card stud (8 or better) tournament and ring game play. Stern is considered to be a Texas hold 'em, Seven Card Stud, and Omaha Hi/lo specialist. He has won three World Series of Poker bracelets. His basic poker philosophy is "In order to survive, you must be willing to die." Maria Stern is also a World Series of Poker winner, having won a 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ... Stud title, making the Sterns one of two married couples to have won World Series bracelets. Harry and Jeri Thomas are the other. As of 2016, his total live tournament win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dag Palovic
Dag Palovič (born 4 January 1975, in Bratislava) is a Slovak writer, former professional poker player, businessman, radio speaker and TV moderator. Since 1 January 2011 until 31 December 2013, he was a member of PokerStars Team Pro, first and as of February 2018 only sponsored poker player from Slovakia. He is best known for making two European Poker Tour (EPT) final tables. As of March 2013, he is second leading Slovak all time money list with career earnings of $909,405 and is also an author of first Slovak poker book on poker titled " Ako sa stať poker pro" (How to become a poker pro), co-authored by 1983 World Series of Poker champion Tom McEvoy. From 2000 until 2004 he was CEO and Chairman Of The Board of Directors of "ad pepper media Slovakia, a.s.", the daughter company of one of the world´s leading e-Adverising german-dutch agency "ad pepper media International N.V." for Slovakia and Czechia. In 2013 he published a crime novel Twodollars Crimson Bill. In spring 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Johnson (poker Player)
Linda Johnson (born October 14, 1953) is an American professional poker player, journalist and consultant, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2011. Early life Linda Johnson was born in Long Island, New York. Before becoming involved in poker, Johnson worked for the United States Postal Service and traveled to Las Vegas regularly to play blackjack. Her father, a career service member, convinced her that playing poker was the best way to gamble as it was not played against the house.Lutynec, JoannLinda Johnson: First Lady of Poker September 13, 2005. CardSquad Poker playing career Johnson began playing poker in 1974 and won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 1997 in the $1,500 seven-card razz event. She also appeared in the Poker Royale: Comedians vs. Pros series. , her total live tournament winnings exceed $300,000. Other poker activities Johnson is known as "The First Lady of Poker", a phrase coined by Mike Sexton due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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