February 2011
Oswald Jacoby: The Smartest Card Player of All TimeBy Johnny Hughes.
Oswald Jacoby (1902-1984) was one of America's best all-round card players. He wrote books on poker, gin rummy, contract bridge, backgammon, canasta, gambling and probability. He started winning at poker at the age of eight, playing with older boys. At 15, he lied about his age to join the army in the First World War for the last two months of the war. He spent all his time playing poker and saved $2,000 in winnings.
January 2011
Texas Poker: The Early Days Part II by Johnny HughesBy Johnny Hughes, author of Texas Poker Wisdom, available on all Amazons.
"We didn't ask a man his last name, where he was from or how he made his living. We didn't care."
November 2010
Texas Poker: The Early Days by Johnny HughesBy Johnny Hughes, author of Texas Poker Wisdom
Gambling and cards seemed to always be a big part of my life. Great uncles, uncles and cousins were gamblers. We played poker and gin rummy around the house. My mother always had a bridge game going and my brother's first words were "I pass”. At Christmas, the family would have a poker game. The children would always lose their savings.
The man who knew Jack RubyA short story by Johnny Hughes
In 1963 I formed a strange friendship with this old gambler named Soft Shoe O' Shea, or just Shoes. He was a regular fixture around the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel, the fanciest hotel in all of Texas.
October 2010
Minnesota FatsBy Johnny Hughes
“I am the most intelligent man I know ... I know everything that anybody knows, and nobody knows what I know.” Minnesota Fats.
September 2010
Road Gambler - The Hughes StrategyBy Johnny Hughes
When I entered the United States Army in 1962 at age 22, I listed my occupation as “card player: poker, gin rummy and bridge tournaments”. They made my speciality code-breaking and cryptography. Several expert poker and bridge players, including game book authors Herbert O. Yardley, Harry Fishbein, and Oswald Jacoby had been code breakers during World War II.
July 2010
Poker Game Robberies Then and Now When asked if he had ever killed a man, Johnny Moss said he didn't know, as he had shot a robber and didn't know the outcome.
The Murder of Iron Drawers ShawWith his Cadillac and colourful stories, he was what central casting would think a Texas gambler looks like, and he loved it.
June 2010
My Beloved Gambling Teachers: Moody Young, Sherman "Stinky" Davis, and Ray "Reverend" PruittBy Johnny Hughes
"A sucker out of Lubbock can beat a slick from any where else...” – Old West Texas saying.
May 2010
The Mysterious Death of Austin Squatty By Johnny Hughes
"Jenkins was a high-stakes gambler at poker and golf. After his death, there were rumours of large gambling losses and debts. The hand J-7 is named for him."