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A message from WPA Founder Jesse Jones which floated into my email account (among others) earlier this week: WPA FOUNDER MESSAGE I founded the WPA in November 2005 with $100,000 of personal funds as a non-profit association. The mission was […]
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A comment from the USAToday.com sports editor regarding commentors complaints about the \”spoiler\” of the WSOP Main Event winner in the headline: To our readers: We regret offending the handful of commenters who believe we should either not be reporting
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Peter Eastgate won it. Age 22. New Great Dane. It\’s too late, of course for the newspapers (East Coast, at least) to get the results into the paper … so you\’ll have to watch it plausibly live on ESPN! (Actually,
Youngest Main Event WSOP Champion Ever!(Shhh, don’t tell anyone …)
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A champion is in our midst, and he is the youngest WSOP main event champion ever. Congratulations, Peter Eastgate from Odense, Denmark! Both players got in cheap to see the flop of 2d-Ks-3h. It was Eastgate who bet out, and
There\’s less than a 4 million chip difference. In history … I think this will go down as one of the best-played final tables in WSOP history, or at least 21st century WSOP main event final tables. We\’ll see …
Wow, Like There’s Really Good Poker Being Played Read More »
If you\’re just tuning in and/or need something to pass the time between episodes of Tao of Pokerati … there is a live audio broadcast of what\’s going on at the felt — hosted by Nick Geber, who is joined
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More than two hours into heads-up play, most of the crowd remains in their seats, despite discovering how slow and uneventful live poker can be at times. Some other points of interest: ~From the time the final table began yesterday,
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E-Dog had the Player of the Year title locked up in July, but the honor and gift was officially bestowed upon him tonight, just prior to the start of the WSOP main event heads-up match. In a very brief ceremony,
WSOPeople: 2008 WSOP POY Erick Lindgren Read More »
The famed ringside announcer did the \”shuffle up and deal\” at the start of today\’s heads-up. It was pretty entertaining stuff, as you could tell that Jack Effel (who introduced him) has been practicing emulating him … and also amusing
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Pauly and I have some side-action … on which dealer is going to deal the final hand. I\’ve got homegirl Linda Tran, of course (who goes on in the third down) and Lou the old white guy. He\’s got Jena
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