For the second time in my life, my father decided the family had to move. And for the second time the upheaval was very sudden. He had finally tired of spending months on end at sea and took a job as a Vice President with a large shipping company.
His salary was good, so he wanted [...]
Big Tony was the local mafia capo in charge of the neighborhood. His distant cousin Carlo Gambino was the “boss of bosses”, running the whole show. And every Saturday Big Tony would pull up at the corner gas station where all the neighborhood kids used to hang out.
His car was a big black sedan and [...]
The New York in which I arrived in 1970 was a city held together by organized crime and gambling. I landed as an eight-year-old immigrant who knew three words of English and began my poker education almost as soon as I stepped off the plane.
Moving into a Queens’ tenement with my parents and sisters, it [...]
If you’ve met me at a poker table, you might know me as John the Greek. But the chances are that you won’t have heard of me. I’ve only just begun to play in major tournaments. But I’ve been playing poker for as long as I can remember. And this game has earned me a [...]
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John “The Greek” Leontakianakos has allowed PokerPlasm to publish his book, This Game Of Ours: A Poker Tale, chapter by chapter!
So get ready for some great poker stories…all of them true…all of them exciting. Read how one of the best cash game players around made it [...]
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