An inside look at the various poker player organizations over the years Part 1. Focus is on the WSOP PAC, WPT, WPPA and WPA.

With faces forward and upturned at just the right angle to catch the light emanating from a glorious future ahead of us, let's have a look at possible "bumps in the road" for the Degenerate Mecca Family Friendly Las Vegas, in no particular order.

Results from the 2008 World Series of Poker. The events are all ready setting records with the opening No Limit Texas Hold'em event drawing 3929 players. Many of these events are later aired on ESPN.

"This year [at the WSOP Main event] those who make the final table of nine players will be asked to come back and finish during two days in November... For me, and for many others in the poker community, it is an extraordinarily stupid decision."

"Eureka!" Archimedes screamed, then he ran outside naked ... Every high school physics student knows about Fourier’s Law of Heat Conduction and Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. But not many know that Joseph Fourier lived inside a wooden box in his old age."

"All of this doom and gloom news should cast a pall over Vegas, a dimming of the of the famous Vegas neon. Right? Of course not. This is Vegas, Baby. ..Billions of dollars of new construction continues day and night with the Palazzo now open and..."

Obama's decisive win in North Carolina, and his close finish in Indiana, denied Clinton the two-state knockout punch she needed. With none of the states still to vote big enough to give Clinton a game-changing boost in delegates or popular vote, time a...

Las Vegan Steve Wynn, World Master Hotelier, talked about one of his current projects that promises to be the next quantum leap for Las Vegas Resorts. The Wynn Encore will target a market just above the Wynn hotel.