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Is Legalized
Poker
in the Cards for Texas?
Poker is a game of skill, not chance
"...
Poker
players received a bit of good news last week..."
April 10, 2009
News Post
by
Fernie Martinez
California Split
Is the
Raging Bull
of
Poker
Movies
AFS double bill pairs Altman film with Ron Mann's biographical doc
"...A great
poker
film comes around as infrequently as a straight flush..."
Jan. 8, 2015
Screens Post
by
Fernie Martinez
'World Series of
Poker
2008: Battle for the Bracelets'
"...Is
poker
still a viable game when there’s no actual money..."
Oct. 18, 2007
Sports Post
by
James Renovitch
The World Series of
Poker
Is Back
The betting and bluffing begins Tuesday July 28
"...It's time to set those DVR's,
poker
fans. Starting Tuesday, July 28, the World Series of..."
July 23, 2009
Sports Post
by
Fernie Martinez
Poker
Face
The life cycle of man as deadpan farce in 'Somebody Up There Likes Me'
March 9, 2012
Screens Feature
by
Josh Rosenblatt
Cowboy
Poker
When Bush Marches on Washington, the Deck Gets Shuffled. Our Predictions:
"...Click here to view a larger PDF file (i.e.,..."
Oct. 27, 2000
News Feature
by
Robert Bryce
Know When to Hold 'Em
When Jay Rosenkrantz's
poker
doc got shuffled up, he got creative
"...Fold. It was a straightforward documentary, examining the online
poker
boom of the Aughties through the ups and downs..."
Dec. 27, 2013
Screens Feature
by
Richard Whittaker
The Grand
There's some truly hilarious material (though not nearly enough) in this partially improvised movie about characters competing in a Las Vegas championship
poker
tournament.
"...characters who are competing in a Las Vegas championship
poker
tournament. A 20-minute package of those funny bits would..."
April 4, 2008
Movie Review
by
Marjorie Baumgarten
Lucky You
This romantic drama is set against a Las Vegas background and stars Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore, but it rolls snake eyes all the way.
"...like Huck Cheever (Bana). Born into a family of
poker
royalty and, by all accounts, blessed with an uncanny..."
May 11, 2007
Movie Review
by
Josh Rosenblatt
Molly's Game
Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut plays a high stakes game with Jessica Chastain
"...her rise and fall as a runner of high-stakes
poker
games in the late Aughts, Sorkin seems to have..."
Dec. 22, 2017
Movie Review
by
Josh Kupecki
Phil Ivey Makes the 2009 WSOP November Nine
Ali in Zaire, Phelps in Beijing, Hendrix at Woodstock, and now Ivey in Vegas
"...already impressive performance at this years World Series of
Poker
, Phil Ivey has battled through a field of 6,494..."
July 16, 2009
Sports Post
by
Fernie Martinez
Rounders
"...engaging look at New York's underground world of high-stakes
poker
games, Rounders is hardly the straight flush we've been..."
Sept. 11, 1998
Movie Review
by
Marjorie Baumgarten
The Other Side of Hope
Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants
"...failing business, and gambles the proceeds in a high-stakes
poker
game for the money to purchase a run-down restaurant..."
Jan. 5, 2018
Movie Review
by
Marjorie Baumgarten
Kevin Hart: What Now?
Comic plays to record crowd in Philadelphia
"...Ed Helms, Don Cheadle, and others at a high-stakes
poker
game. The wraparounds are directed by Tim Story, and..."
Oct. 21, 2016
Movie Review
by
Marjorie Baumgarten
Runner Runner
A Princeton student and online gambler gets entangled with the operation's devious mastermind in Costa Rica.
"...Furst, a Princeton grad student who turns to online
poker
to pull himself out of ruinous debt. When his..."
Oct. 11, 2013
Movie Review
by
Kimberley Jones
City Island
This manic family comedy starring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies has a basic goodness of heart that is counteracted by clunky mechanics.
"...acting classes in the city under the cover of
poker
night with the boys. His haranguing wife, Joyce (Margulies,..."
April 16, 2010
Movie Review
by
Kimberley Jones
Teen Patti
In this Bollywood film, a reclusive math genius has an equation that could revolutionize probability theory and puts it into practice in the gambling dens of Mumbai.
"...mathematician tries to put it into practice in the
poker
games called teen patti played in the gambling dens..."
Feb. 26, 2010
Movie Review
by
Marjorie Baumgarten
Fanboys
This shaggy comedy is an earnest, sweetly geeked tribute to fandom.
"...Huntington and Marquette, share a laconic acting style and
poker
-face resemblance, and their characters' rift isn't terribly interesting. But..."
Feb. 6, 2009
Movie Review
by
Kimberley Jones
Holly
Ron Livingston plays a lost soul in Cambodia who rescues a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has been sold as a prostitute by her parents.
"...American expatriate in Cambodia stumbling his way from underground
poker
game to seedy bar in search of the perfect..."
Nov. 30, 2007
Movie Review
by
Josh Rosenblatt
The Music of Chance
"...leads the two into an unlikely partnership for a
poker
game with a pair of eccentric millionaires, Flower (Durning)..."
Sept. 17, 1993
Movie Review
by
Robert Faires
American Heart
"...the emotions of both. Furlong plays him with a
poker
face, one which ever so rarely flashes the child's..."
Aug. 13, 1993
Movie Review
by
Robert Faires
Playback: Red River Optimist John Wickham
Red River
poker
king John Wickham remains optimistic, Nazis stab concertgoers at Trailer Space, and Fun Fun Fun Fest gets its acre at Auditorium Shores
"...one block. I've got to be optimistic. You play
poker
? I'm all in." Nazis Clash with Concertgoers at Trailer..."
Aug. 14, 2015
Music Column
by
Kevin Curtin
Game Reviews
"...World Series of
Poker
2008Activision $49.99..."
Oct. 19, 2007
Screens Feature
by
James Renovitch
Many Unanswered Questions in Officers' Deaths
A fatal motorcycle accident was preceded by a long afternoon of barhopping
"...was scheduled to be the last stop on a "
poker
run," a popular charity event during which motorcyclists make..."
Dec. 17, 2004
News Feature
by
Jordan Smith
Texas State Hold 'Em (Updated)
Will poker become taxable income in Texas?
"...(but don't deal 'em yet), because letting people play
poker
for money and taking a share for the house..."
May 2, 2007
News Post
by
Richard Whittaker
You Be the Judge
Sex, lies, and politics in the 331st District Court
"...asked the boy to teach her how to play
poker
. After 30 minutes she asked to play strip
poker
,..."
March 2, 2018
News Feature
by
Nina Hernandez
Lit-urday: The Noble Hustle
Colson Whitehead's latest is an underachiever
"...The Noble Hustle:
Poker
, Beef Jerky, and Death..."
Sept. 13, 2014
Books Post
by
Amy Kamp
The Common Law
Are the Texas Hold 'Em
poker
tournaments that I host in my home illegal?
"...Are the Texas Hold 'Em
poker
tournaments that I host in my home illegal?..."
July 1, 2005
Column
by
Luke Ellis
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 8-14
"...Kasparov says war is "more like a game of
poker
than chess. On a chess board, the pieces are..."
Sept. 8, 2023
Column
by
Rob Brezsny
Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas
Poker
This biography of the gambling, murdering Binion captures his wild character without trying to make him likable
"...of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas
Poker
by Doug J. Swanson Viking, 368 pp., $27.95..."
July 4, 2014
Arts Feature
by
Jesse Sublett
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