Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Dahlberg: Poker receives positive boost for one night

  July 5, 2012 in Sports on Page B5 It was just coincidence that the operator of what was once one of poker’s biggest websites was arrested the same week 48 players each plunked down $1 million in cash …

• Esfandiari wins $1 million buy-in poker game

  July 4, 2012 in Sports on Page B6 LAS VEGAS – Antonio Esfandiari prevailed Tuesday in a daylong battle against Sam Trickett on the final day of the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop Texas Hold’em …

• Poker’s ‘Big One’ will offer biggest prize

  June 30, 2012 in Sports on Page C6 LAS VEGAS – Wheelers, dealers, poker pros and CEOs are putting up $1 million apiece for a seat at a first World Series of Poker event offering the richest top …

• Poker players need to stop and smell the roses

  June 26, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 LAS VEGAS – From my nonsmoking hotel room here with ceiling-to-floor windows, the curious thing is that I can still smell smoke and no outside air ever penetrates these walls, …

• Chad: Poker players need to stop and smell the roses

  June 25, 2012 in Sports I love poker. I love the vagaries of the game, the character of the people, the diversity of the characters. Most of all, I love the World Series of Poker, … 1

• Online gamblers argue for new deal

  May 28, 2010 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Is Internet poker just a 21st-century twist on the friendly game played around a kitchen table or “the crack cocaine of gambling”? That’s the question the Washington Supreme … 2

• Washington justices dealt online poker question

  May 27, 2010 in City OLYMPIA – Is Internet poker just a 21st Century twist on the friendly game played around a kitchen table or “the crack cocaine of gambling”? That’s the question the Washington … 1

• Otter should just let the chips fall at retirement center

  March 2, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A5 A few months ago Butch Otter, the governor of Idaho, was soliciting ideas to help his state in these times of economic duress. Now it’s been years since I called … 2

• Idaho tackles old gambling law

  February 26, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A6 Looks like Idahoans can fill out their March Madness brackets without looking over their shoulders.