🔥 Yerusallem Blog: Israeli poker legend playing his cards right

Elezra served as a platoon commander in a Golani battalion during the First Lebanon War. Together Elezra, Krakow and Yoav Ronel wrote the original book, which was translated into English by Robbie Strazynski. 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. It all came from poker. Unlike many other news organizations, we have not put up a paywall. 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. 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. As one of our loyal readers, we ask you to be our partner.

I loved the psychological warfare. Elezra drives a Cadillac and houses his family in a mansion with two pools and two housekeepers in a gated community in Nevada. We want to keep our journalism open and accessible and be able to keep providing you elezra broke news and analysis from the frontlines of Israel, the Elezra broke East and the Jewish World.

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Growing up in the Baka neighborhood — now fancy but then shabby — he rarely had a lira in his pocket. Elezra broke two year-olds worked long days on an assembly line, eviscerating and cleaning salmon. Elezra broke 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.

Despite not living in Israel for many decades, Elezra considers himself thoroughly Israeli.

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. 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. The tremendous pleasure that courses through your body after you carry out a hugely successful bluff without getting caught. But somehow the two remained business partners. It has been estimated that about million people play various forms of poker in person, online or both. Pini and Pnina would come to Stardust Casino to cheer on Elezra in Hebrew. 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. The satisfaction that you get when you make a good call or catch someone bluffing. This destructive habit eventually broke up his marriage. How did this Jerusalem kid end up in Alaska? 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.