 | Unfortunately Drache ran into some legal troubles in the early 80’s. Drache was prosecuted for the IRS for failure to pay taxes and as a result also lost his gaming license. Drache stepped away from the game he loved so much for over a decade, and moved to the Los Angeles area. There he got married and had two kids, and was content, but that’s when poker came calling back. Larry Flint, owner of the Hustler Casino not too far from where Drache lived at the time, had just opened a poker room and asked him to help. Like he did at The Mirage, he situated the poker room where he thought best, and also brought in many high stakes players to check out the new casino. Despite being out of the limelight for a decade, many of his old Vegas friends were happy to see him.easy cards tricks |
Since then, Drache has had his hand in a number of projects. Most notably have been NBC’s “National Heads-Up Challenge” and Game Show Network’s “High Stakes Poker.” This past November he made his return to the WSOP, this time as a producer for the Pay-Per-View coverage of the final table of the main event.marked cards tricks
Drache is largely responsible for helping the game grow from a few men sitting around a table at the first few years of the WSOP, to millions of people playing poker daily both in casinos and online. He helped branch poker from downtown Las Vegas, where it was seen as a “seedy” game, to putting it right in the middle of the strip for everyone to see. Plus, his early rules he put in place as a tournament director continue to be used today. Not many people can say they changed an aspect of poker, and Drache changed many things, all in a positive manner – in particular as the inventor of the satellite tournament format. That’s why Drache was an easy pick to be inducted into the Pokerology.com Hall of Fame.
