Interviews of Poker Players and Rising Stars

Jon 'KAL' Kalmar: Life After the 2007 WSOP Final Table

Attending the World Series of Poker in 2006 when the entrants numbered over a staggering 10,000 players was a truly fascinating experience for me to report on for PokerAllstar. At that moment in time I believed it to be the center of the universe, and an honor to be among the elite players in the poker world.

However, attending WSOP 2007 this past year was a striking contrast to the year before, due mainly to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) which prohibited US-Facing Online Poker sites from awarding seats to US Players ...

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Bill Spadea, Winning Against all Odds

Bill's story is one of determination and survival. You see, he was headed to WSOP last year but had a heart attack, so when it rolled around again this year he told himself he wasn't going to die not having played in the WSOP, so he drove to the bank, took out the $10,000 buy-in and headed to Las Vegas for three weeks. Born in Brockton, Massachusetts on January 16th, 1947, Bill learned to play poker with his mother at age eight one summer while they were on vacation at their beach cottage on Cape Cod. When he was 13 he would walk horses for his father at the race track ...

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Kelly Jo McGlothlin, World Series of Poker Rising Star

When I first met Kelly Jo McGlothlin, it was just before the start of Day 2 at the World Series of Poker. She was just entering the Amazon Room, and I walked over to her and said I hoped she didn't mind that I had been taking so many pictures of her the day before. She laughed and said she didn't, but that she hoped they would turn out to be good pictures because she doesn't usually photograph well ...

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Ciarán O’Leary, WSOP Champion for the Ages

Riding the train through Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport, heading into the main terminal, I struck up a casual conversation with a gentleman wearing an Online poker room jacket. Because we were both there for the World Series of Poker, conversation quickly got around to what our plans were in Vegas ...

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