Paris Poker Nut's Poker Profile

Born: Brooklyn, NY 1937

Graduated college 1959

A child of the wild 1960s, I spent the next ten years wandering throughout Europe, Mexico and North America (meeting Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Tim Leary and others along the way) with one goal in mind: to settle permanently in Paris. Finally, on what was supposed to be a brief visit in 1969, a Frenchman who owned a hotel I had frequently stayed at asked if I wanted to sit in at a Left Bank poker game. Et voila, suddenly I was given a key to the door previously sealed tight. Thus for the next 30 years, I lived as a professional poker player in Paris, long before such activities were considered fashionable or cool. During that time, the games in which I played evolved from stodgy old draw through different variations of stud to pot limit Omaha and no limit Texas Hold ‘Em.

Now living in Las Vegas, I spend several hours weekly playing the game we all love, as much for fun as for profit.