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The ESPN feature table has been transformed all hockey-y for today\’s special tourney. If fans are lucky, there\’ll be a fight! NHLers are all over Vegas this week — mostly for tomorrow night\’s NHL Awards, which guys like Daniel Negreanu […]
Today is Hockey Day at the WSOP NHL charity tourney, Stanley Cup … puckin’ eh
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Recapping the Tuesday night activities as we begin week four of the WSOP… Van Alstyne Back in the Saddle with HORSE Triumph James Van Alstyne, who finished second in the $3,000 HORSE event last week after holding the chip lead,
(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 22 Read More »
Here are some interesting numbers, from WSOP statisticians: In Baseball Terms: A .300 hitter in baseball is considered special. The below chart details those who are cashing at the WSOP at a similar clip: NAME CASHES EVENTS ENTERED CASH PERCENTAGE
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We\’re always doing a little technical clean-up around these parts — especially around this time of year, you know, when there\’s not much to write/read about. Anyhow, in making some repairs recently, we I broke our RSS feed. Now we
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One of the rules changed at today\’s (yesterday\’s) TDA Summit (for the TDA, not the WSOP) … as per a tweet from @SavagePoker: New TDA Rule….. All Hold\’em Final Tables that start 9 or 10 handed will go to final
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as we all know, there\’s far more to the World Series than just bracelet events. One of the alt-poker activities going on today and tomorrow and yesterday (Tuesday and Wednesday) is the TDA Summit. That\’s where tourney directors from card
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Recapping the early part of Tuesday action at the WSOP… JC\’s a Runaway Tran in PLO JC Tran took down his 2nd career WSOP bracelet in the $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event defeating Jeff Kimber in heads-up play to also adds
(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 21 Evening Update Read More »
Not all over the place — but on its buses at least, and maybe at the airport. The Utah Transit Authority, which polices Salt Lake City\’s FrontRunner train system, has passed an ordinance prohibiting using its free wifi to surf
Salt Lake City to Levy Fines for Online Gambling in Public? Read More »
A little smoking area convo with Dutch Boyd (after a heads-up from @robertgoldfarb) led to this little tidbit. Dutch Boyd and Roy Winston supposedly made a $5,000 prop bet at the 2008 WSOP regarding to Player of the Year points.
Boyd v. Winston: When Prop Bets Go Bad Read More »
As we get near the halfway point — through 27 events — here\’s how the WSOP Player of the Year race is shaping up: 250 Ville Wahlbeck 220 Brock Parker 220 Phil Ivey 175 Pete the Greek Vilandos 160 Steve
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