Poker
TOO COMPLEX
The Gamesters
Cheaters..Never Prosper
Nothing up my sleeve..[Yet]
As with any kind of gambling, the high-stakes nature of Sabacc often led to cheating. Besides various basic sleight-of-hand palming tricks, many cheats used a cheater, a small handheld device that could be secretly used to manipulate the game cards and neutral field to give the user an unfair advantage in the game. Another means involved a skifter, a rigged card that was unobtrusively substituted for a normal one in the deck. Barpotomous Drebble once employed this against Lando Calrissian in a tournament, just before the latter won the deed to Cloud City on the planet Bespin. On some planets, cheating at sabacc could mean death or prison and a heavy fine. Force users who play sabacc may sometimes use the Force to stack the deck, or to view their opponents’ cards..
It’s All in the Cards
Ylon Schwartz
The former professional chess player,won his bracelet in style as the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. final table proved to be a difficult one with pros Stephen Chidwick and David Chiu in the final three.
OSWALD JACOBY
Oswald (Ozzie, Jake) Jacoby (December 8, 1902 – June 27, 1984) was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time. He also excelled at, and wrote about, other games including backgammon, gin rummy, and poker..
Jacoby was also an expert backgammon player, and in 1972 he was crowned World Backgammon Champion. In 1970, he wrote The Backgammon Book with John R. Crawford, which is considered the first book to deal with backgammon from an analytical viewpoint. The Jacoby Rule, which states that gammons and backgammons count only after the cube has been turned, is named after him.
Joker’s Wild
42 Annaul W.S.O.P
Games We Play
Arkadiy “Kamsky” Tsinis
Tsinis: 
Blanovsky: 
From the button Tsinis moved all in and Michael Blanovsky quickly made the call for just shy of 2,000,000
With Blanovsky in the lead , he would catch a pair on the flop as the dealer spread the 

. This flop gave Tsinis the maximum outs (excluding four-card flushes) as any king, queen, jack or eight would see him take the lead.
The dealer then turned the
Tsinis spikes an unbeatable straight as the
was turned on the river .
Blankovsky second place for a $336,253
Arkadiy Tsinis wins $540,136 and a WSOP Gold Bracelet














