Poker Lifestyle

Learning to love the variance in poker and in life

5 Poker Rooms in Beautiful Settings
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5 Poker Rooms in Beautiful Settings

Over the past year, we have taken a number of poker road trips. We’ve visited rooms in the middle of cities, such as The Jack in Cleveland, and rooms in the middle of nowhere (hello Ebro!). However, if you’re looking for both stunning vistas and great poker, we have some recommendations for excellent poker rooms…

Understanding State Income Taxes for Poker Nomads
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Understanding State Income Taxes for Poker Nomads

As the curtain begins to lift on the world of travel after a long year of confinement, Paul and I are thinking about our poker pilgrimage. As we mentioned in our recent pilgrimage update, we are itching to get back on the road. One of the issues that we have started researching is the tax…

The Fifteen Greatest Poker Personalities

The Fifteen Greatest Poker Personalities

When I first started watching poker on TV in the early 2000s, I believed that many of the leading poker personalities just could not be real people. So many were straight out of central casting. Cowboys, magicians, professors, ex-cons…even Jesus showed up. There were so many engaging individuals with such varying styles. It seemed too…

The Best Way to Plan a Poker Vacation
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The Best Way to Plan a Poker Vacation

We explore new poker rooms and parts of the country whenever we can. In recent years we have visited South Florida and Key West, Tampa, Las Vegas, Maryland, and more. We have perfected a system for identifying areas we would like to visit, researching them, and planning our poker vacation. So here we present the…

Finding the Best Poker Tournaments: How Does Your Favorite Rate?
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Finding the Best Poker Tournaments: How Does Your Favorite Rate?

Tournament poker players all have their favorite poker tournaments. But there is a general lack of agreement among players on which tournaments are the best. Are my criteria for poker tournament quality the same as yours? The reasons that one player loves a particular tournament will be completely different from those offered by a second…