My video for poker friends of the 2011 World Poker Tour (WPT) Shooting Star that didn’t make TV. Was press credentialed for the tournament as an Examiner reporter. One segment of the 5:00 video was a Mike Matusow profanity rant the WPT executives didn’t like and hoped to not view until I uploaded it to YouTube :-)
Updated 09-17-2023 at 12:57 PM by JSTAT
My last blog post was just over 2 years ago, in July of 2021, after returning from my first poker road trip through Texas. During that trip I visited the Houston, Austin, and San Antonio areas to play poker in as many of the Texas social poker clubs as possible and to pick up lots of chips to add to my casino chip collection. Many of you enjoyed reading about my experiences -- especially those of you who have never played poker in Texas. I made ...
Being a postal worker with a lot of stress, I channeled my anger into winning at blackjack. I felt like going postal at times during my career as a postal worker. I was a recovering hi-lo card count loser before discovering my JSTAT Count over twenty years ago. I was barred for card counting in the 90's using a count never used before. Little did the casinos know that the barring would result in the spreading of my JSTAT Count on the Internet and YouTube. The ten cards are counted as minus two and ...
I dealt single deck blackjack to Kreskin in 1979 on the graveyard shift at Harolds Club in Reno. He was doing a show at Harrah's and decided to play blackjack afterwards. The table was empty and he came up to my table and bought in with a $100 bill. Kreskin hardly said a word and spread $5-$20 and won a couple of hundred dollars. From seeing his shows, I was wondering if Kreskin could read my mind while peeking under a ten card or ace, looking for the dreaded dealer blackjack. Kreskin ...