Articles by Wendeen Eolis

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper August 17, 2006 Last month it was the galloping poker economy, rather than a disaster in the making, that sent me scurrying off on a trip overseas. The itinerary was London, Barcelona and Vienna. I was trying to keep up with Thomas Kremser, the immensely popular European tournament […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper April 20, 2006 With an estimated fifteen hundred poker players on board, the M.S.Westerdam departed from the Fort Lauderdale, Florida pier. A blasting horn signified the official start of the Party Poker Million V, featuring the most prestigious annual Limit Hold’em tournament on the planet. The biggest poker […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper February 6, 2006 When Charlie Prince’s invitation popped up in my E-mailbox, I assumed, at first, that it was another under-capitalized, disorganized filmmaker, anxious to cash in on the current poker craze. Would I care to participate (with scores of others) in the definitive made-for-television documentary that would […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper October 6, 2005 When Matt Savage, premiere tournament director and current co-star in the highly anticipated Lucky You movie, calls, poker players listen! Matt has more connections than the ubiquitous poker gods when it comes to putting players center stage on television. With Matt’s pull and my moxie, […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper July 31, 2005 Two decades ago, industrious poker players, Yours Truly among them, wore the covers off WSOP two-time grand champion Doyle Brunson’s Super System and poet laureate Al Alvarez’ Biggest Game in Town. Super System was quickly revered as the definitive poker text book, and Al Alvarez’ […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper July 25, 2005 Having rolled over 1200 plus players on day one at the 2005 finale of the World Series of Poker, I was one of the estimated 1850 remaining contestants in the competition that boasted 5619 participants at the starting gate, in three separate day one flights. […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper July 14, 2005 No sooner than the plane touched down on the tarmac at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, my mobile phone is afire with messages from players at the 2005 World Series of Poker. Record fields of tournament entrants are daily occurrences. High-profile poker players are […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper June 21, 2005 During the past several weeks, scores of poker players have taken their places on the set of the new poker movie, Lucky You, to participate in a piece of modern poker history. I was part of the crowd, counting the blessing of yet a third […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper June 6, 2005 As the Harrah’s 2005 World Series of Poker launches, Ken Lambert, longtime card room manager at the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, Mississippi (a Harrah’s property) is at the helm – overseeing what are sure to be the most spectacular and chronicled poker contests in the […]

By Wendeen H. Eolis Poker Player Newspaper May 8, 2005 Introduction: This part of Chapter 7 takes place at the 1988 Binion’s Hall of Fame Tournament. Wendeen, a legal consultant by day, has taken a respite from the stressful role of a crisis consultant to James T. Sherwin, Vice Chairman of GAF Corporation , a defendant […]