23 players left, returning to 50/100/10k level Eliminations: Aaron Gordon – 24th Niklas Flisberg – 25th Phi Nguyen – 26th Michael Carroll 27th Chip leader – Dennis Phillips – 14.4m Tiffany Michelle – 5.1m (still sporting UB gear, athough Pauly […]
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Pokerati has no horses in the race, but in a remote way, we do. As a matter of fact, Pokerati is connected to all of the remaining 27 players in the 2008 WSOP main event. We like to call it
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No one\’s got a better collection of WSOP factoids than Nolan Dalla (no offense, KevMath, you\’re also a fact gathering machine) … and here are the WSOP media director\’s notes about Day 6 (money, players, storylines, countries, stats, etc.) with
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Today\’s the final day of play in the Amazon Room, as the 27 players remaining will play down to the November Nine, as those players scatter around the world an the vultures agents that represent them in an attempt to
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This weekend wasn\’t about life-changing money so much as it was about life-easing money for those who went super-deep (top 1 percent), but not deep-deep-deep in the main event: Margo Outhred reading David Sedaris\’ latest (When You Are Engulfed in
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Oh shit, while contemplating the significance of Tiffany Michelle in a Matusow-less field, I almost completely overlooked Craig Marquis — an online player from Arlington (craigmarq) who Raj Kattamuri introduced to me just the other day. And lo and behold,
RE: All Hopes Hinge … Go Dallas (Online) Poker!
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Ouch … on a baddish beat where his trip aces with a jack kicker lost to a trip aces with a nine. That means with 27 players left, there are only two I had heard of before the event started:
Matusow Out All Hopes Hinge on Last MySpace Friend Standing
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I continue to work the hallways and set up executive-journo shop this time outside the payouts cage — where Pauly teaches me how to figure out who\’s really backing whom … but not before we get distracted by a player
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No, Hoyt, don\’t do it! Hoyt Corkins sherpas Tuscaloosa Johnny to Red Rock Canyon for some fresh perspective and 2008 WSOP recovery. Nearly driven mad from the land of poker, I had the opportunity on Sunday to get out of
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I now limp to the finish line, licking my poker wounds. My dream of $25,000 in blackjack tournament winnings were dashed this morning when I narrowly missed making the third round at the Golden Nugget. It was the last grasp
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