The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
Introduction
TED FORREST'S WILD RIDE
March 2001
An hour outside Las Vegas, Ted Forrest called the Bellagio poker
room. This call was part of a ritual whenever Ted returned from
California. If the action was big enough, he would drive straight to
the casino and play. Otherwise, he would go home and call again that
evening.
Ted Forrest was a professional poker player, and he played for the
highest stakes in the world. Even though he lived in Las Vegas, he
chased the action around California, along the East Coast, and
sometimes through Europe. The biggest games in Vegas were
$1,500-$3,000, or maybe $2,000-$4,000, but those games popped up
only occasionally. To keep himself in action, he commuted almost
weekly to L.A. to the Bicycle Club, the Commerce Club, Hustler
publisher Larry Flynt's house, or Flynt's Hustler Casino, for
high-stakes poker.
When a poker player is playing well, every game looks like a good
game, and Forrest was playing very well. He had won over $2.3
million in the first ten weeks of 2001. Most people w ... read full excerpt from: The Professor ebook
