New York City Underground Poker

I have to apologize for the delay.  After getting busted by the NYPD vice squad playing in midtown I took a little break.  Not from playing, but from playing sketchy games… well, from playing SUPER sketchy poker games.  And, in the interest of not being hassled, I took a break from posting here. Since it [...]

All of a sudden the monitors went black, the dealers sprinted from their seats in the box, trying to look like normal patrons, and the NYPD Vice Squad busted into the room screaming “Everybody!  Hands up!  Hands over your heads!” We all froze, hands high in the air, nobody moving a muscle. “Anybody have any [...]

  Last night was going great until the SWAT team busted down the door. I’ll back up. About a week ago I started going to a new game.  A dealer friend of mine mentioned a new spot he was working and suggested I stop by.  The game was old school NYC poker club.  It was [...]

When I left you I was on the bus to Atlantic City, recounting past adventures with colorful degenerates.  So, I was on my way down to Caesar’s in AC to play the $340 buy-in WSOP Circuit event.  The tournament gave plenty of chips to start and nice long levels, so there was no reason to [...]

A lot of players will think I’m crazy, but I have always enjoyed playing tournaments.  Granted, they are high variance and can take forever, but your payday can be huge, so what the heck I’ll play them every once in a while. The WSOP Circuit was in town recently.  By “in town” I actually mean [...]

By eight o’clock 4 other players, including Marciel, had arrived and we were ready to get playing.  I remembered how crazy the last game was and decided that rather than playing relatively short stacked with only $200 in front of me, I would play with $300 and see what happened. The game finally got going [...]

Okay, sorry it has been so long between posts.  I’ve been playing a ton of games and  have been ridiculously busy.  But, I’ve been keeping a journal and will be inputting from that some, and live updating some. I decided to go back to the game down by Wall Street again last night.  The game [...]

When I left you in my last post I had just arrived at my first New York City underground poker game to find a game going seven-handed with $5000 on the table!  If you haven’t read it yet, you can catch up here. I sat down at the table and my body shivered.  The hundreds [...]

Wow.  Okay, that’s all I can say right now is wow… I went to my first game last night.  Like I said in my first post, I don’t really have a lot of money right now.  I expected to get a huge bonus, but the economy went down the shitter and I lost my job.  [...]

Okay, so I didn’t mention this in my first post, but whatever, it doesn’t really matter.  I have never actually played at any of the underground poker clubs in Manhattan.  My old boss on the trading floor, let’s call him Jacob, (he was a Managing Director, so for the past few years made a ton [...]