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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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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Supposedly the 2008 WSOP has been the \”Year of the Pro\”. Arguably so … but that puts a lot of pressure on Mike Matusow to make the final table. Otherwise, might we be looking at something in November that ain\’t
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Finalist: Best Mullet Best Mullet-to-Chipstack Ratio Though unspoken blogger code prevents me from telling you whether or not this is a picture of Iggy, I can tell you that this player was seen at Iggy\’s table well into the main
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He finished in 45th place, paying $154,400. It\’s all probably Jen\’s fault. I suspect the 10-4suited will now be wielded like The Hammer against Hellmuth only, and will become his kryptonite, impeding his effort to dodge bullets baby. The people
Recorded a couple days ago, as we were nearing the bubble … Benjo dropped by Tao of Pokerati studios to give his opinion on poker agents (they suck the blood out of the poker economy), France\’s best WSOP hopes (they\’re
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Just outside the Amazon Room … seriously, this one makes little sense to me. I suppose it\’s a reminder that while you can take the World Series out of the trailer park, you can\’t take the trailer park out of
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