http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com Casino City Times is The Source for the latest gaming news, gaming strategy and gambling tips from the industry's leading experts. en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49968.html During the last few months, Eric Buchman has heard all about Darvin Moon's big stack and Phil Ivey's superiority. Neither one, however, will intimidate him when he finally sits down at the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event Saturday in Las Vegas - and with good reason. First off, Buchman will have the second-most chips at the... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49968.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49952.html Explaining what I do for a living can be confusing sometimes, especially when the person asking the questions is a bit uneducated about the world of poker. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people out there who have no idea just how much the poker industry has grown over the last decade. They're stunned when you tell them millions and... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49952.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49957.html The World Series of Poker Main Event final table begins this Saturday and, as usual, everyone has their opinions on who will win. Casino City sent out an informal poll to a number of poker professionals and members of the poker media to find out who they're picking and why. Out of the 17 responses we received (9 members of the media, 8 poker... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49957.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49920.html Producing an episode for the World Series of Poker on ESPN is no easy task, even when you have several weeks to edit down the more than 15 hours of tape from one day and put it into a neatly wrapped package of two one-hour shows. Trying to do it in less than 24 hours is an even more dubious task, but that's exactly was ESPN was able to do last... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49920.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49921.html Life-changing decisions aren't supposed to be so straightforward and easy. But for Joe Cada the decision to become a professional poker player was just that. Sure, he was letting down his parents by dropping out of college and giving up his job as a bus boy at the age of 19, but there were extenuating factors. Factors like the $300,000 he had... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49921.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49878.html It was about a year ago at this time when Kevin Schaffel met Phil Ivey for the first time. Schaffel was in the clubhouse eating lunch at Shadow Creek, the renowned Las Vegas golf course, when he spotted Ivey sitting a few tables away. As Ivey got up to head to the practice range, Schaffel walked over to him and explained that he was a scratch... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49878.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49800.html Mike Sexton was sitting in a London hotel room late Wednesday night last week when he received a telephone call he'll never forget. Sexton was getting ready for bed on the night before his final table appearance in the PartyPoker World Open V when the phone rang. On the other end was World Series of Poker Communications Director Seth Palansky... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49800.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49805.html Tom McEvoy fully admits that he's "deeply disappointed" he didn't make it into the Poker Hall of Fame this year. And he's not ashamed to confess that he strongly believes he belongs in the exclusive club. At the same time he is genuinely thrilled that his friend Mike Sexton will be inducted at the Hall of Fame ceremony in Las Vegas on Nov. 7... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/49805.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/48337.html Parity has long been the goal of the NFL, but five weeks into the 2009 season things haven't gone exactly as planned. "Parity is a non-existent word right now," says John Avello, the Director of Race and Sports at Wynn Las Vegas. "We've played about 30 percent of the season and we have a whole bunch of teams with just one win and four teams... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/48337.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/48271.html With the 2009 World Series of Poker Final Table set to begin next month, Casino City is once again gearing up to provide you with wall-to-wall coverage. In the last two years, Managing Editor Vin Narayanan and Senior Editor Gary Trask have spent more than two months combined in Las Vegas covering the WSOP and they have produced numerous updates,... Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/48271.html