For the first time, Texas Hold'em, a type of poker, was played in Robstown, Texas, in the early 20th century. The game was brought to Las Vegas by a group of Texas players, among whom there were Doyle Brunson, Crandell Addington and Amarillo Slim.
F. Hellmuth, who won WSOP, shaved bald, after he had been predicted failure in WSOP outcome.
In the world, poker ranks third among TV viewers, the first and second ones are football and rally.
In 2009, in Vancouver, there was the FIRST poker championship between a man and a bot. The battle between the man and the bot was serious, two famous professional players lost out to the bots, but, on the results, the players won!
... I don’t believe in hunches; hunches are for dogs making love.
Through it all, I’ve learned that, in life, a man is not beaten even though he’s all-in. You can’t count him out until the fall of the last card.
Everyone can break a huge pot having a couple of aces or having caught a flop set. A good player loses less money with risk hands of border guard force and over a long period of time it becomes his advantage.
Nevada has about $9 billion of gambling revenue per year.
Roulette is often called "a Ferris wheel", because of the fact that the sum of all the numbers on the drum is 666.
Every Las Vegas visitor spends on gambling $485 per trip.
Einstein claimed that he had found an easy way to win at roulette. According to him, it is necessary to wait. When the croupier distracts, take all the chips away.
Make money where money is!
I felt rich having stopped worrying about the balance of my checkbook.
The wealth really changed my life only once when I got an opportunity to do charity.
