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LAS VEGAS–Phil Hellmuth is heads-up yet again for his 10th WSOP victory in a $1,000 NLH event. This time he\’s not up against a no-name … he\’s facing the anti-Phil in the form of the accomplished Juha Helppi. (Get it? […]
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LAS VEGAS–Last week I reported getting a lot of chips in the $1,500 NLH event by cracking Olga Varkonyi\’s aces (and a flopped set of jacks) with my pocket 10s. Not the case. I probably misidentified her because I thought
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LAS VEGAS–Just sitting here at the WSOP, in a comfortable recliner in the MBL beer tent … and \”Ricky Zilem\” is on TV. On ESPN. It\’s not the WPT event he won. It\’s some WSOP final table from last year.
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LAS VEGAS–Thum is griping that Pokerati\’s not keeping up with the WSOP news. (I miss you, too, Tummy!) What he says couldn\’t be further from fiction. You see, I\’ve become rather busy here at the World Series. What started out
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Gambling is a ruthless business, but the fall of BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers has been faster than expected. I was wondering what the online betting/poker sites would do now that the fuzz is after them. I thought they might alter
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LAS VEGAS–Have been talking to some Dallas guys here who say they are \”all but done\” with Dallas poker. The games here are supposedly too ripe to risk your chips to the cops and robbers and bad/great players back home.
Poker is Funny Sometimes Read More »
LAS VEGAS–Derek in Plano writes in with an intriguing question: Dan, I have been having a problem playing KK. I was wondering what would be the best bet to maximize the profit of this powerful hand while getting A-rag out
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LAS VEGAS–My success in prop betting continues. Yesterday I joined a contingent of Dallas pros and semi-pros at PF Chang\’s for dinner. In the end, our bill for the six of us (with tip factored in) was $160 … so
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I know this is supposed to be a news-oriented blog, so I won\’t tell you about my disappointing finish in the $500 event at Foxwoods this weekend (I\’ll save that for the other site). Instead, I\’ll ask if any of
LAS VEGAS–In yesterday\’s $1,000 NLH with rebuys, Daniel Negreanu supposedly rebought 48 times. (How do you even have time to rebuy that often during the rebuy period?) Apparently, part of his strategy to put as many chips on his table
