Queer Eye for the Straight Flush Poker Guy

Ed Miller preferred chess to poker while a student at Isidore Newman School. "I didn't even like cards," he said. "My dad kept wanting me to play bridge and I was like, 'Whatever.'"

Now a poker professional residing in Las Vegas, Miller is the culture-and-couture-rehab patient on this week's episode of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," scheduled to air at 9 tonight on the Bravo cable network.

Miller came to professional gambling by the not-so traditional route: Good family, exclusive private high school, killer college, cutting-edge job for a megabucks company. After Newman, he obtained two degrees at MIT -- in physics and computing -- taught for a year, then took a job at Microsoft.

Assigned to the team tasked with developing a Google-like Internet search engine for the software giant, Miller relieved stress by dabbling in online gaming. Cosmically enough, he got into his first online poker game, at which he lost $100, by clicking on an online ad. Eventually, he began taking long weekends to visit casino poker rooms. Eventually, he quit Microsoft and made his life one long poker weekend.

Eventually, with co-authors David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth, he wrote the primer, - Small Stakes Hold 'Em: Winning Big With Expert Play. It was a success. Other poker books have followed. More are coming.

Poker is hot. So is Miller.

June 21, 2006
Posted By Kevin Uhls
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com    Previous Page | Internet Gambling | Top Online Casinos | Submit News!

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