Yet we still don\’t know how many runners are coming. We can tell you that players are showing up an hour early to take their seats — a sign they won\’t win — but the actual number … well that\’s […]
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It really couldn\’t be much more clear … this will probably be good evidence for poker as a game of skill: · Multiple Gold Bracelet Winners at the 2009 WSOP: Jeffrey Lisandro — 1st, 1st, 1st Brock Parker — 1st,
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When Team Pokerati-er Whit Blanton rivered a royal flush at the Hard Rock at the beginning of the Series, I publicly congratulated him but inside poo-pooed his blurry handheld photography. But after flopping one of my own while playing 2/5
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Tom Schneider (front) may have been the crowd favorite, but FBT (far table) is still having a better 2009 and shut down Schneider\’s hopes for redemption as the DonkeyBomber fan base looks on. So close … but in the end,
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That\’s what @JeffreyPollack wants to know — after today\’s $1,500 NLH maxed out with 2,790 entrants (one of which is The Big Randy, fyi). Specifically, he twitters: should WSOP events ever sell out? Do sell-outs conflict with our brand promise?
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I catch up with Pauly just before the end of Day 1 in $50k HORSE. As the good doctor and I celebrate our victories having bet the under on the projected field size for this event, Pauly breaks it down
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Steve Hall knew poker columnist Lee Munzer better than most of us … and respectfully honors his fancy for the ladies as Wicked Chopsian before Wicked Chops was cool existed. And while you\’re at PokerGossip … Steve also has a
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After a valiant 0-for-18 start, with only one Day 2 in the mix, everybody\’s favorite @DonkeyBomber has finally made the money — winning his first-round table in the $1,500 Limit Hold\’em Shootout, an event he finished 5th in back in
Change100, via Tao: Change100 compiled a list of last year\’s players who are not playing in the 2009 50K Horse event. That included… second place finisher Michael DeMichele, Phil Hellmuth, Lyle Berman (who final tabled the event last year), durrrr,
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You just could tell … 2009 was sure to be a big year for Iran! Thought it was gonna be Farzad Rouhani who did it first at the WSOP — but he got Lisandro\’d in a Stud event. Bahador Ahmadi
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