Michael Wiesenberg

Wiesenberg played poker professionally for 10 years before becoming a technical writer.{{Cite web |title=Michael Wiesenberg |url=https://www.globalpokerindex.com/poker-players/michael-wiesenberg-9888/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=Global Poker Index |language=en-US}} He contributed for many years to the original Gambling Times magazine, writing about keno and poker. He had a biweekly column in the original Poker Player for five years and in Pan Player + for two (a defunct magazine for panguingue players). He had a monthly column for three years in Dr. Dobb's Journal,{{Cite web |last=Swaine |first=Michael |date=October 1, 2008 |title=I Had One Grunch But the Eggplant Over There |url=http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/i-had-one-grunch-but-the-eggplant-over-t/210605069 |access-date=January 2, 2019 |website=Dr. Dobb's}} a computer magazine, and a monthly column for two years in A+, a magazine for Apple Computer users. He has contributed articles to PC Publishing, MicroTimes,{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/microtimesvolume00bamp_27|title=MicroTimes|date=May 1986 |volume=3|issue=5|publisher=BAM Publishing|language=en|edition=Northern}} Gambling Times, InfoWorld,{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/Infoworld-1984-07-09|title=Infoworld 1984-07-09|date=July 9, 1984|language=en}} Gaming & Wagering Business, Casino & Sports, and was an occasional contributor of articles to inCider, The San Jose Mercury, The San Francisco Chronicle, Science '84, and Desktop Publishing. He has also constructed crosswords for national crossword puzzle magazines and newspapers. His puzzles appeared monthly for five years in LA Direct, and seven years online at Poker Pages and Puzzle Planet, and has had puzzles in the New York Times.{{Cite web|url=https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=3/19/2018&g=18&d=D|title=Monday, March 19, 2018 crossword by Michael Wiesenberg and Andrea Carla Michaels|website=www.xwordinfo.com|access-date=December 21, 2018}} In 2011, he contributed a crossword puzzle to the Los Angeles Times that contained no instances of the letter E.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/tribnation/chi-a-crossword-puzzle-without-es-20110427-story.html|title=Not "E's"-y: How to construct a crossword with no E's.|last=Norris|first=Rich|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US|access-date=January 2, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/fortney-calgarys-king-of-the-crosswords|title=Fortney: Calgary's king of the crosswords|website=Calgary Herald|date=October 17, 2014|language=en|access-date=January 2, 2019}} He was also the editor for four years of two newsletters sent twice-monthly through Card Player's website and the content editor of the site.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cardplayer.com/authors/14-michael-wiesenberg|title=Michael Wiesenberg|website=www.cardplayer.com|language=en|access-date=December 21, 2018}}

He wrote the rules and games descriptions sections for online poker cardrooms Full Tilt Poker and Planet Poker.

• {{Cite book|title=Free Money: How to Win in the Cardrooms of California|publisher=Lyle Stuart|year=1985|isbn=978-0897460279|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/freemoneyhowtowi00wies}}
• {{Cite book|title=Puzzled Programmers|publisher=Microsoft Press|year=1987|isbn=978-0140872408}}
• {{Cite book|title=The Official Dictionary of Poker|publisher=Mike Caro University|year=2000|isbn=978-1880069523}}
• {{Cite book|title=The Ultimate Casino Guide|publisher=Sourcebooks, Inc|year=2005|isbn=978-1402203800}}
• {{Cite book|title=The Official Dictionary of Poker: Second Edition|publisher=Amazon|year=2014|asin=B00KJMP6B2}}
• {{Cite book|title=Canadian Crosswords|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|year=2018|isbn=978-1985099791}}

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