7/16-David Sklansky, Randy Sutton, Sendhill Ramamurthy

CRN 1 Live M-Thur 7a-8a PT

David Sklansky-Poker Player and Author

If you scan the bookshelf of any serious poker player, one author that will keep popping up is David Sklansky. Many popular online and offline pro players will tell you one of the first books they picked up as they were learning was one of Sklansky's.


Greg Raymer, 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, even said in an interview the biggest influence on his game was Sklansky's The Theory of Poker.

David Sklansky's HOLD 'EM POKER. This is the book that started it all; the very first ever published specifically for Hold 'Em Poker. David Sklansky takes you though the game in a relatively short 111 pages covering all the basics of the game, as well as some of the more advanced concepts. However, don't be fooled by the lack of pages. David Sklansky packs more into 111 pages than Phil Hellmuth has crammed into two full books of over 550 pages combined.

David Sklansky is a professional gambler and poker player. He was approached to write this book as one of the leading poker theorists in the world. This is also a book that was first published in 1976, so I guess the first thing to address is whether or not a book this old could still be relevant in today's internet savvy, WSOP, WPT, TV world. The answer of course is yes, and even more so since the book was updated in 1997.


Randy Sutton-A Cops Life

Randy Sutton is a retired Field Lieutenant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept and a thirty year police veteran. He began his career as a Patrolman with the Princeton Borough Police Dept. and left that department holding the rank of Detective. In 1986 he joined the Las Vegas Metro Police and served as a Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, and Narcotics Detective before being promoted to Sergeant. He held that rank for 13 years while being assigned to Patrol, Field Training, Community Oriented Policing, Investigations, Task Force Operations and Supervisor of Advanced Training. Most recently, he served with the Northwest Area Command. He is one of the most decorated Police Officers on the department holding commendations for "Valor", Meritorious Service" Community Service Award" and several "Lifesaving" awards.


Randy has also been featured on numerous episodes of the popular television show "COPS", "America's Most Wanted", "Cop Files" and co-starred in the pilot episode of "Las Vegas" with James Caan. A member of the Screen Actors Guild, Randy has also appeared in such feature films as "Casino" with Robert DeNiro, "Miss Congeniality II" with Sandra Bullock and "Fools Rush In" with Salma Hayek as well as numerous commercials. He has also been featured as a Law Enforcement Commentator for Fox News and the "Maury Povitch Show" as well as numerous news broadcasts.

Randy is the author of three popular books published by St. Martins Press. "TRUE BLUE Police Stories by Those Who Have Lived Them" and "A Cop's Life" and "TRUE BLUE To Protect and Serve". His articles on Law Enforcement related issues have been featured in "American Police Beat", "Law Officer Magazine", "Policeone.com". He travels extensively, speaking to Law Enforcement Agencies and groups on the subject of ethics and integrity in a presentation entitled "Policing with Honor" based on his popular article of the same name published in several national Law Enforcement Publications.


Sendhill Ramamurthy-USA's "Covert Affairs"

A second-generation CIA man, Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy) was a former lacrosse star at Yale. Jai's hate-to-lose attitude would make him a perfect fit for investment banking, but he's chosen the Agency route instead. He has dated everyone from Congressional staffers to other CIA workers to a flight attendant he met while flying to a buddy's bachelor party in Reykjavik.


Jai lives in the shadow of his father, who was a legend at the CIA. This legacy both drives and saddles him. He is constantly striving to live up to his father's expectations while forging his own identity within the Agency.

When Arthur directs him to get close to Annie to gain her trust, Jai is more than willing to comply. She's beautiful, smart and sexy -- just his type. She also can keep up with him, which only fuels their natural friendly and flirtatious chemistry.