Michael Binger said she was due … and sure enough, Clonie Gowen got it good — not at the WSOP, but across I-15 at the Bellagio Cup IV, in a $5,000 NLH event that drew 235 runners. Kinda like a […]
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As action gets underway on day 2B, we\’ve got a few players you may or may not know that we\’ll be paying a little extra attention to. Be sure to check in with CSR for some chip reports from and
Some updated info about the totality of the WSOP, from media director Nolan Dalla: This is the largest World Series of Poker in history. A grand total of 58,720 entries for an identical number of gold bracelet events (55 tournaments)
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With 53 of 55 poker precincts reporting … Unless something really funky happens in the main event, it looks like Nevada has the edge on California when it comes to home base for the best poker players in the world.
World Standings Update Read More »
While Tuscaloosa Johnny was representing in the media tourney, 85Nutz was also badged up today in Event #55, the Casino Employees Event. But alas, he ran out of chips before we could get a picture and begin following his stack
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WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack and WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb taking in the spectacle of the main event and whatever it may suggest about what\’s ahead on the poker horizon. All WSOP-long I\’ve been seeing Lyle Berman and feeling torn between
Ok. First blind, no luck. Down to 14k. 2nd blind got blinded down to 10k in first 90 minutes and finally caught a hand to pick up a few thousand, then played 8s from middle position, big stack bully calls
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Another sign of the changing times? Doyle Brunson busted out of the main event yesterday, and for the first time in as long as I can remember — at least all the way back to 2005 — he exited the
RE: Even Statues Sometimes Move Read More »
If you don\’t think poker is in a transitional time, you\’re stupid you should. A sign of this old-timer era being put out to pasture went virtually overlooked at the start of this WSOP or maybe a little before it
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This hedline could refer to thousands of players, of course, but I\’m talkin\’ bout Pokerati\’s own Donkey … who busted out on the near last hand. He re-raised with a broadway open-ender, got called with a flush draw, and a
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