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
Editor
Nikkhil Mannocha
India
Editor in Chief of Suited Worldwide. Builds StackBook, and has spent more nights in card rooms than is strictly healthy, mostly watching the dealers.
Stories
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
Culture
Why Suited?
A letter from the editor: why the game deserves a magazine, and what you will find here.
Nikkhil Mannocha
Scene
The poker capital moves to north India
For years, serious poker in India meant a boat in Goa. Now the busiest tables in the country are in Delhi NCR, where a new room seems to open every few weeks. How the map changed, and what it means.
Nikkhil Mannocha
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
Tech
Why we built StackBook
The magazine's publisher wants to build the world's best software for running a poker room. Here is where it came from, what it is for, and why we think rooms everywhere need it.
Nikkhil Mannocha