More than two hours into heads-up play, most of the crowd remains in their seats, despite discovering how slow and uneventful live poker can be at times. Some other points of interest: ~From the time the final table began yesterday, […]
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E-Dog had the Player of the Year title locked up in July, but the honor and gift was officially bestowed upon him tonight, just prior to the start of the WSOP main event heads-up match. In a very brief ceremony,
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The famed ringside announcer did the \”shuffle up and deal\” at the start of today\’s heads-up. It was pretty entertaining stuff, as you could tell that Jack Effel (who introduced him) has been practicing emulating him … and also amusing
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Pauly and I have some side-action … on which dealer is going to deal the final hand. I\’ve got homegirl Linda Tran, of course (who goes on in the third down) and Lou the old white guy. He\’s got Jena
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I wasn\’t the biggest supporter of the WSOP delayed final table. I had many reasons to be against it, but in the end, I assumed it wouldn\’t be popular with the fans. I was about as right-on there as I
When the security guys came out with the money in silvery aluminum briefcases — 9 million semi-real American dollars — a few of us in media row joked about telling the story that the guys left at the final table
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Before things got underway here ate the final table, I was listening to an old podcast appearance I did with Andrew Feldman on ESPN\’s The Poker Edge. We were talking about the action at the end of Day 2B, and
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I made my call to the Feds to weigh in on tonight\’s planned attempts to strengthen the UIGEA and extend its reach. The call kinda reminded me of calling PartyPoker Customer Service back in the day, with less of an
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Either that or Peter Hellmuth. As we wind down the day yesterday and look forward to tonight\’s action, that\’s what\’s at stake — either we\’ll have a new youngest main event champion ever, or the Ruskies will have a new
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Ylon Schwartz check-raises with nothing into the nuts of Peter Eastgate, and Pauly and I begin the countdown and begin speculating on what two Eurokids (and maybe even Dennis Phillips) will mean for poker/PokerStars … and where poker is in
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