People
Ten years at the table in Toronto
He left home games with friends for a nine-table club in Toronto. In his own words: what surprised him, what he misses, and the one outer he still remembers.
Nikkhil Mannocha
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People
Players, owners, dealers: the faces of the game.
People
Jim Ramm and the long game
He came to poker through home games in the Caribbean and stayed to build the game across South Asia: on river boats in Goa, in a Colombo room with one table's worth of players, and through a casino licence carried all the way to a Ministry. The man behind Jim's Poker Room on trust, discipline and the night he never went home.
Nikkhil Mannocha
People
Joy Das: from a casino ship to the poker floor
He went to a ship for a steward's job and came out a dealer. Eighteen years later, the freelance floor manager talks about high-stakes games, family first and what makes a great floor.
Nikkhil Mannocha
People
The women who changed poker
From the first final tables to the rule books themselves. A short history of the women who changed the game, and the room around it.
Divya
People
What brings players back to a room
It is not the chandeliers. Seven small things that make people choose the same room, week after week.
Nikkhil Mannocha