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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 […]
Hellmuth vs. Durrr Heads-up Rematch? Read More »
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
Not Quite the Michael Buffer of Poker Read More »
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
Concept of competition reproves it’s a good thing Read More »
Mekhi Phifer – Courtesy of PokerListings.com The WPT Invitational got underway yesterday with a 5pm reception. Open bars, free buffet, dj spinning some tunes, celebs excited to meet poker pros, poker pros excited to meet celebs, media enjoying the food
WPT Invitational Enters Day 2 Without Mekhi Read More »
Hersheiser, of course, is proving to be the Gonzaga of the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The final 8 tomorrow: Jonathan Little vs. Chris Ferguson Gus Hansen vs. Phil Ivey Andy Bloch vs. Orel Hershisher Huck Seed vs. David Benyamine
A Separated at Birth We Didn’t See Coming Read More »
So it was fun making picks … but not so fun to watch the results trickle in. Everyone\’s talking about their brackets around Caesar\’s Palace — lots of money being unofficially wagered as heads-up fans excitedly bemoan the upsets and
Brackets Are Rigged Read More »
6:45 — Johnathan Little d. Erik Seidel. \”Plenty of awfully good players are going down,\” says TJ Cloutier to Seidel. 6:46 — \”Gavin Smith has moved all-in\” [to quote the NBC announcer. \”Gavin Smith with about 10,000. 10,300. Tom Schneider
Even more Heads-up Poker Championship Tom moves on Tom is out Read More »
6:02 — Who is this announcer guy? Not too exciting nor comprehensive. 6:03 — Funny, he just made it over to the Tom vs. Gavin table … pointed out that Tom was trailing by \”a little more than a few
Heads-up Championship 2: Clubs-bracket tidbits
Because I happen to be here Read More »
