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Episode 67: Tempers Rising with Benjo DiMeo – An incensed Benjo goes off on an ESPN cameraman who tried to pick a fight with one of his French colleagues. As a six-year vet, Pauly shares a few of his run […]
Continued Tales of the Main EventTao of Pokerati
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The Main Event resumes shortly with 293 players remaining as they play three more hours, two hours at 6/12k/2k and one hour at 8/16/2k . The current leader is Saguhyon Cheong with 2,870,000 in chips. Some other notables returning from
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Episode 63: Day 4 Hypertension – With fewer than 1,000 players to go, Dan and Pauly wax on the tension inside the Amazon Ballroom along with the breakdown of the Pavilion. Pauly wonders if Team Pokerati\’s last player standing, the
Blowing Bubbles Tao of Pokerati
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Day 5 of the Main Event resumes at 12pm in the Amazon Room at the Rio with 574 players remaining as Tony \”Bond18\” Dunst leading the field with 1,546,000 in chips. After the bubble burst with the elimination of Tim
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Had plans with Pauly to be ready to record an episode of Tao of Pokerati while the bubble was bursting … the text alerts came in … \”8 left\” … \”we\’re h4h now\” … when he got to \”5 left\”
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In what some consider a controversial decision, tournament director Jack Effel decided to stop play with 1:15:44 left in level 16 (2,500/5,000 w/ 500 ante) to have the 751 players remaining (747 make the money) take their 90-minute dinner break.
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Sorting through the list of remaining players, the surnames with the most players still in contention to win the main event hardly come as surprise, based pretty much on world population. Mathematically, a Chan or Nguyen is still probably your
Common Name Numbers Poker Mizrachis have most syllables still alive
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Yesterday was the beginning of the real tournament, with all players converged into a single field, just with different starting stacks determining how hard a fight they might face, and how much bad-beat insurance they were carrying. Today is the
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New article in the Las Vegas Sun, looking at the WSOP and the Nevada Gaming Control Board\’s comfort level with online poker sites that do and do not accept American players. No one\’s wagging any fingers at the WSOP specifically,
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A few quicklinks, as I clean off my desktop while getting ready for the pseudo-final stage of the 2010 WSOP, which got started pretty much earlier today … USA Today declares: WSOP is recession-proof. Also from USA Today: Emmit Smith
WSOP- and Poker-Related Instapoker
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