Poker will be coming soon to Massachusetts. Today, casinos spread poker games just about everywhere - including Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It wasn’t so long ago that every Hold’em player on the East Coast knew each other.ĭifficult as it may be to imagine now, 25 years ago there wasn’t a casino in the American Northeast that had poker games, nor were there any legal full-time poker rooms. Poker’s legalization in Atlantic City changed many lives, including mine.
The Early Years of the Atlantic City Poker Scene