photo by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com Annie Duke, seen here on way to winning the National Heads-Up Championship, hosts the Star Studded Charity Poker Tournament to Benefit After-School All-Stars Be there for Annie Duke’s charity poker tournament to benefit After-School All-Stars at the Commerce Casino on Thursday, May 20th starting at 6:30PM. California Governor Schwarzenegger’s After-School All-Stars is a nonprofit organization for at-risk youth

Have you voted for the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions? It’s free to do so, and you can show your support for your favorite poker player. The top 20 players voted by the public will then join seven other seminal players, as they battle it out in a 27-person tournament for $1 million.

The iPhone/iTouch app Hold ‘em Legend is available in the iTunes App Store for $2.99. Total Rewards (Harrah’s player’s club) and the World Series of Poker are running a promotion for those who enter their contest before April 16. Prizes include: Grand prize (1): 16g iPad 1st place (2): 8g iTouch (though if we’re playing the app, it kinda means we already have an iPhone or iTouch) 2nd place (5): WSOP poker chip sets Consolation (10): $25 Total Rewards gift cards, for use at any Harrah’s property Not a heck of a lot of prize offerings, but note that you don’t actually have to buy the app to enter the contest.

Lou Krieger is one of the most prolific and well-regarded poker authors around, having written or co-written 11 different books on poker and gambling as well as numerous columns for various publications over the last two decades. Krieger is also the editor of Poker Player Newspaper and hosts a weekly podcast called “Keep Flopping Aces.” Given his authorship of so many poker titles and his familiarity with the publishing industry, I thought Krieger would be an interesting person to talk to about the current status of poker books and how that status may have changed over the years. We ended up discussing a number of topics when I appeared on his podcast recently, but I’d like to share with you some excerpts from the part of our discussion that specifically dealt with poker books and publishing.

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