The data\’s just starting to come in … as final WSOP dealer paychecks went out last week: I picked up my toke check from the final table on Thursday. I got a grand total of $9.37 for my 8 main […]
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A few people have asked me WTF I\’m talking about saying that November 2008 will go down as an historical month where everything changes/d. To spell it out, you have: The November Nine — historic simply as it pertains to
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Today also happens to be the anniversary of \”Who Shot JR?\” Twenty-eight years ago today a bajillion people were watching Dallas to find out the answer. Kinda interesting because this gave birth to the concept of a TV cliffhanger —
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. . . according to Harrah’s Sports and Entertainment Director of Communications Seth Palansky. Palansky appeared on Gary Wise’s podcast Wise Hand Poker (the 11/19/08 episode) to talk about various subjects, including doing a little post-mortem of the delayed WSOP
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Dennis Phillips was the chip leader for four months — possibly the longest time anyone in the history of poker has held onto the biggest stack. And though he got off to a shaky start and would ultimately finish 3rd
Mr. Peanut demanded too much money to call the opening cards in the air, so the WSOP got Michael Buffer instead. As the 2008 WSOP was coming to a close a few days ago, Pauly and I couldn\’t help but
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Your WSOP Experience is hardly complete without a drink or seven at the notorious Rio hooker bar … and while I skipped out early on post-coronation festivities, Pauly stuck around to yuk it up with Otis and Howard (from PokerStarsBlog.com,
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Keep Floppin\’ Aces, on RoundersRadio. Lou Krieger\’s guest will be none other than my own podcast co-homie, Dr. P. He tells me: Our topics will be the WSOP final table and November Nine in Las Vegas and if we have
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From the flaks at ESPN: POKER’S PREMIERE EVENT ENJOYS SIGNIFICANT AUDIENCE INCREASE ON ESPN As Denmark’s Peter Eastgate became the youngest champion ever in front of a packed house in Las Vegas, nearly 2.4 million viewers were tuned into ESPN’s
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The 2008 WSOP has come to an end, and with crews tearing down the set … Pauly and I give our after-the-fact analysis of heads-up play and The November Nine Experiment.
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