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Jeff Haney Gaming Guru - Page 4Jeff Haney on how a tourney grew despite Web crackdown21 December 2007
Out to re-energize poker
The main event at the World Series of Poker and the annual World Poker Tour Championship, two of the most anticipated and celebrated events in the game, rate as the world's richest regularly scheduled poker tournaments.
Right behind those behemoths, nestled at No. 3, comes the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic, which concluded Tuesday night at the Bellagio. ... (read more)
Jeff Haney explains how a Reagan-era tax cut sparked the growth of legal sports betting in Nevada19 December 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Arne Lang was telling a roomful of IRS workers about a bundle of cash he won by betting on sports.
And yes, he was doing so freely and voluntarily.
The wager in question, a landmark in Lang's illustrious Las Vegas gambling career, was on Super Bowl IV for the grand sum of 18 dollars and 15 cents. ... (read more)
Jeff Haney on Las Vegas sportsbooks early lines on football games16 July 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- In response to the insatiable demand for football betting opportunities among sports gamblers, it has become fashionable - even expected - for Las Vegas sports books to offer lines on dozens of games from the forthcoming season by early summer.
Whereas there were just a handful of ... (read more)
Series feels effects of online poker crackdown11 July 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- On the fourth and final day of the opening round of the World Series of Poker's main event, everybody was talking about the players who weren't there.
If the U.S. government hadn't seen fit to crack down on online gambling, poker insiders were saying, at least 4,000 more players ... (read more)
Jeff Haney on the new schedule for World Poker Tour's sixth season24 January 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The World Poker Tour has released its schedule of events for its sixth season, and the lucrative, made-for-TV tournament poker circuit will again have a strong Las Vegas presence.
World Poker's Season 6 begins in May with a tournament at the Aviation Club in Paris, followed by two ... (read more)
Jeff Haney previews the upcoming third season of 'High Stakes Poker'10 January 2007
Almost a year to the day after its debut, "High Stakes Poker" will begin its third season of shows at 9 p.m. Monday on GSN (Cox cable channel 344).
The program portrays some of poker's top players competing, by invitation only, in a no-limit Texas hold 'em cash game with a minimum buy-in of $100,000. ... (read more)
Jeff Haney on "The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions"27 December 2006
"The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions," by Michael Konik. Simon & Schuster, $26
When Howard Schwartz, the esteemed proprietor of the Gambler's Book Shop on South 11th Street, showed me an advance copy of "The Smart Money" earlier this year, he predicted the book would leave some readers frustrated and confused. ... (read more)
Jeff Haney checks out a heads-up computer game that gives poker players 'a chance to settle old scores'13 December 2006
I've seen the needling and the damage done.
I've seen it in high-stakes games, as hothead Mike Matusow's opponents goad him mercilessly, waiting for the inevitable meltdown.
I've seen it at lower limits, as the unfortunate victim of a draw-out on the river lets loose with a stream of insults against the winner (or vice versa). ... (read more)
Jeff Haney talks to an industry veteran about the effect on cardrooms of the recent online gambling crackdown22 November 2006
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Poker fever may cool down.
Nearly everyone in poker has a take on how the government's recent crackdown on Internet gambling will affect traditional casino cardrooms, or "brick-and-mortar" poker rooms, as they have come to be known.
Will it chase online poker players away ... (read more)
Hours Online, Then The 'Big One'8 August 2006
Chris Hogan was beating himself up over how he had played a losing hand.
"It was bottom two pair," Hogan said. "I could've let it go."
Hogan had seen hundreds of hands Monday in the opening round of the World Series of Poker championship event at the Rio.
One was stuck on auto-repeat in his mind. ... (read more)
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