Pauly and I look further into drinking with Padraig Parkinson, and in general what it means to be at the WSOPenn and Teller Theater at about midnight with seven players still remaining. (NOTE: Ivey busted a few minutes after we […]
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This time short-stacked Phil Ivey got it all-in with AK vs. Darvin Moon\’s AQ. The crowd has erupted to chants of \”I-VEY, I-VEY, I-VEY!\” Ivey tries to hold back a smile … biting into an apple to hide his smirk.
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As the PokerRoad boys say, \”If you can\’t take the best of it, take the worst of it.\” For Kevin Schaffel, that meant getting all in preflop with pocket Aces vs. Eric Buchman\’s pocket Kings and losing to quads. Live
We\’re 6 hours into the action, Phil Ivey is All-in (with ~ 20 BB in his stack) and Jeff Shulman is in the tank …. The crowd is shushing each other all of the sudden. And re-shushing. It\’s like everyone
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We\’ve talked a little about cheering sections at today\’s final table, but we\’ve saved the strangest combination of superfans for last. Sitting on stage near their main man Phil Ivey are the Humphreys, the little old couple who have rooted
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So much craziness going on, and we\’ve hardly covered any poker. James Akenhead hit a sick three-outer — the crowd erupted — to triple up, and Antoine Saout called an all-in bluff from Darvin Moon with two pair to stay
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The Penn & Teller theater is a big room with seating for hundreds of friends, family and media folk. Some of us are down on the floor close to the action while others, like me, are relegated to the sky
While the battle for the bracelet heats up on stage, Doyle Brunson is taking care of business in the lobby of the Penn & Teller theater where he\’s signing copies of his books, including his new autobiography that goes on
Phil Ivey made the first all-in move of the day and the crowd went… silent. It was certainly the tensest moment so far as both Joe Cada and Jeff Shulman considered taking Ivey on and, potentially, knocking him out. In
In spirit … Phil Ivey just took down his first pot, and a voice from the crowd screamed: \”Stack\’em, stack\’em, to the top!\”
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