LAS VEGAS–Sharron and the Heiszes may have returned to Dallas, but the Lodge/Rounder contingent at the WSOP won\’t go away. Right now, Doctor Steve and Bob Haney are playing in the seniors tourney. Bob is a slightly below average stack, […]
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LAS VEGAS–I hate text messages, but sometimes I love them. For example, last week Fawcett sent me: Just saw cloutier at Rio buffet…breakfast of champions. Good stuff, Scott. You may become a quality blogger after all. Then, just a few
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LAS VEGAS–When people get on their soapboxes, they sometimes say goofy things … which may or may not make sense. Extra-good when a reporter is there to capture it all. Check out the story in today\’s Star-Telegram about what online
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LAS VEGAS–Poker Donkey has been monitoring CardPlayer and writes in with word of another pro trying to wield the hammer: As seen at www.cardplayer.com during the $1000 rebuy event. Sat Jul 08 16:24:00 PDT 2006 Williams Flexing After a pre-flop
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The decidedly anti-poker Goodlatte Bill just passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. That is actually not a surprise. But the margin of victory is. So much work to do to keep poker legal. Otherwise, as you can imagine, in
LAS VEGAS–It\’s kinda funny sad seeing the people who are still at the Rio at this hour. Almost no pros I recognized … and no tourney action of course — just an odd assortment of really big stacks and really
LAS VEGAS–About an hour ago,as the final table of the Ladies Event got down to five players: Jeffrey Pollack, WSOP commissioner: Nolan, excuse me, do you have the bracelet? Nolan Dalla: Uhh … [5 minutes later …] ND: Hello, this
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LAS VEGAS–So much has been going on while you were away it\’s just sick: ITALY wins the World Cup, and MAX PESCATORI wins the World Series. They stop the LADIES EVENT at 26 players. LA SENGPHET from DALLAS (right, having
LAS VEGAS–They\’re down to the money in the $1,000 Ladies event. La Sengphet is sitting as an above-average stack, and though I can\’t get a good look at the size of her stacks, the lovely (and recently married, I heard?)
LAS VEGAS–A possibly reliable source (a WSOP assistant tourney director) tells me that there are plans to lower the buy-ins to World Series of Poker Circuit main events to $5,000. The idea behind it is supposedly to draw more people
