Everybody likes a sneak peak into high-roller hotel rooms … and this YouTube vid gives more than a glimpse of the Bruce Willis and Marilyn Monroe suites at Planet Hollywood. PHo\’s poker room is under new management, btw, that seems […]
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For the past two months, Phil Ivey, Durr, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius and the online phenom/enigma known as Isildur1 have been playing some of the most outrageous poker we\’ve ever seen at what can only be described as nosebleed-level stakes.
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While Jim McManus is preaching All-American poker goodness to the presumably liberal academic NPR set, Rich Muny (aka @TheEngineer2008) has taken it upon himself to address non-poker conservatives. His latest missive on BigGovernment.com is a good one that puts online
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More kids and poker, man … it was gonna be an issue anyhow, and Joe Cada\’s WSOP win maybe made it even more so. I got an email from a student at Rollins University who\’s doing a paper for his
There was a little referendum this weekend that puts some more poker on the map in Darvin Moon Country … Jefferson County, WV, approved \”table games\” — including blackjack, craps, roulette, three-card poker, and real poker — at the sure-to-be-renamed
Poker Wins Big Vote in West VirginiaPennsylvania feeling the pressure?
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The Poker PROducers showing they can feed the poker die-hards: This week, and next, Poker After Dark is forgoing its usual $20,000 short-handed sit-n-go (yawn) for a Full Tilty high-stakes cash game with a $100k min and $250k max buy-in.
Special Poker After Dark This Week High-stakes Durrr vs. Ivey + Everyone Else cash games
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Hank Gilbert could become the most poker-friendly agricultural commissioner Texas has seen this century. I gotta say, I was kinda tickled when Hank Gilbert, a Democratic candidate for Texas Governor, chose Pokerati as the place to first publish his op-ed
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Check it out … the New York Times Book Review, as part of a holiday gift guide, have put out their \”100 Notable Books of 2009\” … and making the list is Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by Jim
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Bumping as a reminder of tonight\’s tournament: Tournament ID: 121607994 Title: Justin Shronk Memorial Tourney Game: NLHE Buy-In: $5+$5 Starts: Sunday, December 6 at 18:00 server time (6 p.m. EST, 3 p.m PST) Password: Justin Shronk Half of the buyin
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The first thing that caught my eye when I saw the cover of the new issue of National Journal was the hand: Obama already has Jacks-or-better, but could also be drawing to an inside straight. Great artistic display of poker
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