In the mid-2000’s, I launched a campaign to sell an actual casino game to an actual casino. After fifteen years, I am getting very, very close. Yest

Say Hello to Ricochet Poker

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In the mid-2000’s, I launched a campaign to sell an actual casino game to an actual casino. After fifteen years, I am getting very, very close.

Yesterday I learned that Galaxy Gaming, the distributor of Ricochet Poker, now has a tentative deal to start a trial run at the Stratosphere on January 28. This is a wonderful and necessary next step, and of course I’m terrified that everything will go wrong.

I have been a poker player since I was five years old. My grandmother (on my father’s side) taught me how to play five card draw, and my grandfather (on my mother’s side) taught me to play license plate poker. You must know the rules to the former, but the latter is a highway game where each player chooses a license plate from cars you’re passing, and treats it as a poker hand. You choose the car before you can read the plate, and you play for a nickel a pop. And if you’re my grandfather (on my mother’s side), you drive fast enough to pass pretty much everybody on the road.

In the early 90’s, my wife and I shared a house, and a dealer’s choice poker game, with comic artists Phil and Kaja Foglio. It was a weekly game that had moved with Phil from Chicago, where it had run for decades. His collection of amusing and strange poker variations became the book Dealer’s Choice, co-penned by Phil Foglio, myself, and game master Mike Selinker.

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