Summary
Have you heard the one about the poker player who couldn't win, even when his opponents were trying to lose? You're about to. The Sports Diary was a privileged guest of legendary poker author Al Alvarez for a masterclass in Texas Hold 'Em at the Corinthian in Glasgow last week, along with an assortment of hacks, photographers and competition winners.
It was a seminar on behalf of the Pacific Poker website - www.888.com - and was supposed to be strictly for beginners, but the guy wearing the sunglasses in the dimly-lit piano bar was definitely giving away signals he might have played before ... and this was when they were still explaining the rules!See the full content of this document
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Glasvegas Gambler Stood Up by Lady Luck
After a couple of hours of intensive story telling from Al and his mate Roy Houghton - a proper Cockney geezer, no mistake - we were unleashed on to the table to hustle, bustle and blunder our way through a short tournament.
It was...See the full content of this document
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