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Why It’s Bad to Slowroll
Bad cardplay, emotional taunts lead to famine, pestilence, war

Tom Dwan doesn\’t slowroll, and you shouldn\’t either. My latest Bluff column is now up online … in this episode I call out the Scandis for potentially causing a violent international incident: Without a doubt, for low stakes players MGM […]

Why It’s Bad to Slowroll

Bad cardplay, emotional taunts lead to famine, pestilence, war

Watch HSP Season 5 Episode 2 here

Blog / By Kevin Mathers

Thanks to the good folks over at GSN, Episode 2 of High Stakes Poker is now available over at Youtube, and embedded below. Plenty of big hands on this week\’s show, with lots of talk in the forums about the

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National Heads-Up Championship Final Brackets

Blog / By Dan Michalski

Here\’s how it all turned out: And goodish times had by PokerRoadies and Pokeratizens who competitively made their bracket picks … swag headed various people\’s ways. Here\’s how it all turned out: Rank Predictor Score Predicted Final Winner Completed 1

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Paris Hilton Playing Poker

Blog / By Dan Michalski

The heads-up Championship wasn\’t the only red-carpet poker going on in Vegas this weekend. Paris Hilton was in town for her 28th birthday party (at Body English) and recouped the next day by playing a relatively low-key sit-n-go at the

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Vanessa Rousso vs. Huck Seed for Heads-Up Championship
UPDATE: Seed wins 2-0

Blog / By Dan Michalski

They\’ve been playing all day weekend, and are down to two at the NHUPC. And regardless of how it turns out Vanessa Rousso has arguably earned her keep as the Danicka Patrick of Poker. (I\’m keeping up with results on

Vanessa Rousso vs. Huck Seed for Heads-Up Championship

UPDATE: Seed wins 2-0

Budding Relationship between WSOP, NBC?

Blog / By Dan Michalski

One pairing at the NHUPC drawing party at Pure that might deserve a little attention: WSOP Commish Jeffrey Pollack, who was in attendance to draw a few pairing balls out of the keno hopper, showed up with (and left with)

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Layne Flack’s Statement: Not Guilty!

Blog / By BJ Nemeth

Lara Miller of the PR firm Diamond Draw Management has issued a statement from Layne Flack. Here it is in full: I attended the Draw Party at Pure on Friday night and then met with my brother, who had flown

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NY Times Magazine: The Art of the Bad Beat

Blog / By BJ Nemeth

Virginia Heffernan, a tech writer for the New York Times, has an article about online poker appearing in this Sunday\’s The Times Magazine. Heffernan seems to have been hanging around some poker forums and found the self-pity of the \”bad beat\”

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NHUCP Day 1 Wrap-Up

Blog / By Dan Michalski

I guess the bad beats finally caught up to me … I was near the top of the leaderboard all day, but in the last quadrant got smacked … as did Gavin Smith, via bad beat, who was my pick

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Layne Flack in Jail for DUI

Blog / By Dan Michalski

He\’s there right now … in Clark County City of Las Vegas Detention Center, charged with DUI, driving more than 21 mph over the speed limit, and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. CORRECTION: City of Las Vegas Detention

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Bad cardplay, emotional taunts lead to famine, pestilence, war

UPDATE: Seed wins 2-0

Who was the first female player to win an open WSOP event?

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