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January 27, 2006
"I walk around the pokerparty parking lot and find a coin," he said, showing off the quarter that a quick search had yielded that morning. "It happened to me one time that I found a coin in the parking lot before a game, and I did well in that pokerparty game. So, ever since, I always try to find a coin in the parking lot." Other pokerparty .com players preferred family heirlooms for their luck. For Tricia Watson, that meant keeping a photograph of her poker-playing father nearby. Her father had won a local pokerparty tournament, Watson said. "When I got this picture, I won there, too. So, it's very lucky." Jason Crile covered his pokerparty com cards with a gold pocket watch that once belonged to his great-great-grandmother, a replacement for the lucky stainless steel dice that a friend had made for him.
"I had another lucky charm, but I lost it. So I was looking for something else, and thought of this," Crile said. "Surprisingly, this has been more lucky for me, but really, it's more to hold the pokerparty cards down than for luck." Mark Tracy of Peck had a small Buddha figurine keeping watch over his cards. He explained that his friends sometimes call him "Buddha" because of a physical resemblance, "so I just decided to have fun with it." Sometimes the tiny Buddha seems to bring good luck at pokerparty com, Tracy said, and at other times it doesn't, "but I don't hold that against him." The pokerparty gaming act, which allows casino gaming on Native American reservation land, was just what Lyle needed to get into the gaming industry. Although he had been playing high-stakes poker for several years in Las Vegas and got to know a number of casino executives, he had little experience in casino operations. What he did have, however, was years of interaction with the local Indian tribes, and understood Native American pokerparty culture and needs.
Ressler said he is concerned about the legality of his pokerparty .com winnings but does not plan on quitting. "I know it's illegal, but I pay taxes on what I win, and it's a victimless crime," he said. "Some people pay to be entertained, and some people do the entertaining." Ressler's passion for poker goes beyond cards, and he said he is "very lucky" to get paid from pokerparty for doing what he loves.
According to a recent LA Daily News article, organizations ranging from churches to school boosters are joining ranks of numerous companies using charitable pokerparty tournaments to capitalize on the No Limit Hold'em craze that has swept across the United States. His pokerparty com room is full of crates containing poker books, statistic sheets on the wall near his computer and a painting of two aces, the best starting hand. Ressler said he rarely watches television unless pokerparty is on, and his favorite movies are about poker. But he said playing cards isn't always fun. Ressler remembers a two-month dry spell in which he went without any significant earnings. He said even the best pokerparty players go through rough times, such as Phil Hellmuth, 1989 World Series of Poker No Limit Hold'em champion, who dropped out of the University of Wisconsin to play poker professionally, saved $100,000 and went to Las Vegas, where he lost it all – twice.
Quickly surpassing bake sales and many traditional ways to raise money, pokerparty is making a difference in the lives of California's residents. Groups like the West Ranch High School in Stevenson Ranch raised $12,000 in an October pokerparty com fundraiser, while the Make-A-Wish foundation earned a big cash of $60,000 for its August poker tournament hosted by LA Kings hockey superstar, Luc Robitaille. There is light on the horizon for groups looking to raise money through tournaments. Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont has worked with the justice department and is sponsoring a bill to exempt non-profit groups from the law.According to Torrico, thanks to the government cuts on spending for social programs, groups have had to step up and fill the void and many can do that successfully through poker nights.
