Here are the final results for the last-minute bracket fun. We\’ll have to do something more fancy with this next year. But for now, big congrats to Taylor Larkin, who miraculously got in the game late and managed to pick […]
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Well shoot, got scooped by my own peeps. I was-gonna surreptitiously pimp my own pimping by talking about the actual substance of the article by Gary Wise, and his suggestions for improving the selection process in the National Heads-Up Poker
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A Las Vegas poker-room development … Starting last week (or maybe a few days before) the Mirage has changed from 9-handed tables to 10-handed. No confirmation on what the rationale was behind the decision to change. But you can think
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This just in on the Pokerati newswire: [Johnny chans girlfriend arrested at bellagio for holding out aces] Hmm. Wow. We\’ll give it semi-confirmed rumor status for now … That\’s the not-so-quiet buzz around some of the bigger tables at Bellagio
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Dr. Chris Ferguson and his support-posse rejoice behind a trophy, a watch (or is it a bracelet?), and a plateful of half-a-mil. Fabolosa on his lap. He pushes all-in on a board of [cards]10c 3s 7s 7h[/cards]. (He\’s holding [cards]js
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Tom Dwan, aka Durrr, cracked Phil Hellmuth\’s pocket aces with pocket 10s in the third hand of the opening round of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship … and now there is talk of a rematch for $100,000. (Hellmuth already made
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Andy Bloch caught an ace on the river to best Huck Seed … so he moves on to what is theoretically his second-biggest heads-up match of his career (the first being the 2006 $50k HORSE finals against Chip Reese) vs.
Chris Ferguson beat Phil Ivey when his pocket 8s held up against Ivey\’s pocket 6s (who was drawing to a 6, 2, or 7 when they got it all in). This makes it three-out-of-four years in the history of this
NBC Heads-Up Championship announcer Jordan Siegel, who may or may not have won the gig in a $1,000 Bellagio tourney. The NBC heads-up announcer whom I was criticizing the other day for not acknowledging runner-runner possibilities and generally lacking a
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The Final Four is set … and PokerStars, Ultimate Bet, and Bodog have all been fully eliminated. T Phil Ivey vs. Chris Ferguson Huck Seed vs. Andy Bloch Holy crap, it looks like it will be some actual hardcore competition
Full Tilt Wins Heads-Up Championship
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