First off, let me tiltily say I\’m a little pissed at Tom, who paid our election bet via PokerStars. Granted, I told him that would be fine … after all, Tom is different from most people in the poker biz, […]
Bad Beat Play of the Day WheneverThird-nuts is no good
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Check out Anthony Holden\’s piece in The Daily Beast: Poker Returns to the White House. He\’s not speaking just metaphorically when he talks of the potential return of a home game to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (That musta been why I
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After some speculation amongst poker insiders between Dan and Pauly, it seems that the bigwigs at the World Poker Tour and Full Tilt Poker were talking….just not about a buy-out. The agreement has been signed and announced to give FullTiltPoker.net
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5 am: The prop-betting evolves … as Pauly discovers (much to Benjo\’s dismay) the Hungarian offshoot of lime tossing: trying to hit bums with apple cores. The ethically questionable game of skill comes up as Pauly is on prop-bet tilt
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A press release was just received from Tokwiro Enterprises, noting that a settlement was reached between Excapsa Software (previous owner of UltimateBet) and Tokwiro Enterprises (current owner of UB) for $15 million. The amount is the same as what was
… even though the dudes from PokerListings think so when they drink. If competitive eating were to become the next poker, though, it would probably be fun to see the field whittled down to a \”final table\”. For those interested
RE: Tao of Benjorati 3/4Competitive Eating Is Probably Not the Next Poker
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In case you missed the multi-network coverage last night of my prop-bet with Tom … I won! The main bet was an easy victory, but I had to sweat it out on the 5-percent point-spread sidebet. But in the end,
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Prop bets among the international press break out at the EPT afterparty, and, of course, Benjo and Pauly are there to moderate/get in on the action. The big bet comes when Matt Showell challenges his PokerListings colleague Rod Stirzaker\’s claim
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Was just checking out the RJ for some local election results, and their front-page pic featured a shot of the Nevada State Democratic Party party … Didn\’t even need to read the caption to see that official Go Obama election-night
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The post-EPT-Budapest shenanigans continue as Benjo and Pauly discuss whorehouses and the Tarantino-esque experiences of French and Scandi bustouts with Hungarian women-for-hire. A tad of religious guilt kicks in as the poker media duo contemplates the Day of the Dead
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