🤑 Poker Stories: Eli Elezra - Poker Stories - Podcast – Podtail

And Elezra eventually forged a lucrative poker career, appearing on the American cable show High Stakes Poker for six seasons and winning several major titles. Unlike many other news organizations, we have not put up a paywall. But somehow the two remained business partners. Feeling shell-shocked after his discharge, he and a childhood buddy went to Alaska, intending to make some cash and come back to Israel to serve in the army or the Secret Service. The satisfaction that you get when you make a good call or catch someone bluffing. We want to keep our journalism open and accessible and be able to keep providing you with news and analysis from the frontlines of Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. It all came from poker. That win was the turning point. By working smarter and harder than their rivals, the Israeli brothers-in-law amassed a small fortune and began buying up businesses — first in Alaska and then in Nevada, once Elezra rediscovered his teenage love of poker. Despite not living in Israel for many decades, Elezra considers himself thoroughly Israeli.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} How did this Jerusalem kid end up in Alaska? But if the terminology and descriptions of strategy in Pulling the Trigger: The Autobiography of Poker Pro Eli Elezra go right over your head as they did mine, you may still find the book of interest. The tremendous pleasure that courses through your body after you carry out a hugely successful bluff without getting caught. As one of our loyal readers, we ask you to be our partner. However, no more than a couple of thousand people are poker pros, earning a steady living from playing this addictive card game. Elezra served as a platoon commander in a Golani battalion during the First Lebanon War. Following a three-month stop back in Israel, Elezra returned to Alaska with his sister Pnina and her husband, Pini, and the two men ended up driving taxis. The two year-olds worked long days on an assembly line, eviscerating and cleaning salmon. Together Elezra, Krakow and Yoav Ronel wrote the original book, which was translated into English by Robbie Strazynski. Growing up in the Baka neighborhood — now fancy but then shabby — he rarely had a lira in his pocket. His father, a postal worker, gambled away his meager earnings in games of stud poker at the Mahane Yehuda market. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}I loved the psychological warfare. He approached Elezra about writing the first Hebrew book about the game, and Elezra responded that he was more interested in sharing his Cinderella-like life story than in sharing his poker strategies. Pini and Pnina would come to Stardust Casino to cheer on Elezra in Hebrew. Nevertheless, traditional business models are no longer sustainable and high-quality publications, like ours, are being forced to look for new ways to keep going. I was struck by how many serious poker players have Jewish surnames — perhaps not surprising when one considers the stereotypical Jewish inclination to tame Lady Luck using strategy, psychology and mathematics. Elezra drives a Cadillac and houses his family in a mansion with two pools and two housekeepers in a gated community in Nevada. This destructive habit eventually broke up his marriage. It has been estimated that about million people play various forms of poker in person, online or both.