The Rio All Suite Resort in Las Vegas is best known in the poker world as the new "uptown" home of the World Series of Poker. When the Rio opened in 1991 it instantly became the party place for the young hip crowd. Loud music, sexy dancing girls' riding light floats high above the casino floor, even a Rio Rita showgirl host and a Carnivale atmosphere that will turn even the hardcore grouch into a smiling mover and shaker.

Stateline, NV - The terrestrial waters of tournament poker are always choppy. There is no such thing as "smooth sailing" on the open poker seas. Like ship captains, poker players must navigate dangerous waters, forge ahead into the dark, and avoid sinking into the abyss -- which is elimination from the tournament.

September 14, 2006 - Temecula, CA - With the buzz of 2006's World Series of Poker not yet settled, two lucky poker players from Pechanga Resort & Casino will be finding themselves surrounded by the sensation of next year's tournament. Gary Steen and Crystal Ott won separate satellite tournaments at Pechanga's Poker Room during the month of August which send players to the Championship Event and the Ladies' Event respectively at the WSOP.

The first word in the study of poker tells is undoubtedly Mike Caro's classic "Caro's Book of Poker Tells". Despite the phenomenal increase in the number of poker books, this area of study has received very little additional attention. The topic has received sporadic coverage, but no authors have directly taken on the task updating Caro's book. Burgess and Baldassarre address this topic head on in "Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells".

Bat Masterson was a lethal gunfighter, fearless lawman and professional gambler. In the decades following the Civil War, he rode across the frontier and into the history and legend of the American West.

Born William Barclay Masterson in Illinois in 1855, he was one of six children, three brothers and two sisters. A few years later, the family moved to Sedgwick, Kansas, on the edge of the frontier.

Today I will take a break from developing an expert system to answer a reader's questions.

"Omaha Al" writes, "I tend to play more hands in the H/L ..." I assume Al is comparing Omaha H/L to Hold-Em.

There is a good reason why people tend to play more hands in a high/low game then in a straight high game.

First: There are usually two winners. If you feel your opponent is on a straight high hand, your qualified low may just sneak in for half the pot.

Bubbles and Steam.

I truly believe that most of the world has gone totally nuts...definitely not a good thing! Listen to the news about rage, the vengeance, fighting, and the unthinkable. Everyone seems to be steaming-and not from the heat! (By the way, that's why I love Poker Player newspaper, just good oldfashioned poker articles.

Now, lets see... In my last column, I was talking to you about... codes to live by, and the secret that I have kept from Carol for about sixty years. I was saying, "Money is not heavy to carry..."

So when you come home from the poker game, always make sure you still have a large bankroll- It does not matter whether or not you won or lost-never let your wife or significant other guess if you won or lost-always be a winner when you come home!

Dewey Tomko might have remained a school teacher, but his skills as a poker player make that unlikely.

"The most money I ever made as a teacher," he says, "was $6,400."

Hard to give his family even a taste of the better things in life on that kind of salary.

So he turned to poker a little bit at a time.

"My first six and a half years out of college I taught school . . . taught kindergarten."

One of the worst things in the history of the world is happening right now, right here in America, right before our eyes. And you probably don't know about.