So little gets me excited about poker these days … unless, of course, it includes Pot-Limit Omaha or somebody getting sued/arrested. (C\’mon HSP, can we just get one episode of PLO? Just to hear Gabe Kaplan talking about it. Promise […]
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Recapping the Tuesday night activities as we begin week four of the WSOP… Van Alstyne Back in the Saddle with HORSE Triumph James Van Alstyne, who finished second in the $3,000 HORSE event last week after holding the chip lead,
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Today\’s $1,500 Omaha 8 or Better tournament drew a record (for Omaha 8 ) 918 participants, with the eventual winner taking home over $263,000. No clear chip leader has emerged from the field, but some notable players who won\’t take
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Crap, one of my final four picks is already out. Erik Seidel. I so almost went the other way with that one, too. Otherwise, all is well in my bracket. Got the 4 3 other matches right — Farha d.
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Chewed up, spit out? Clonie Gowen is challenging the most fearsome of Full Tilt avatars in Clark County Court. We all knew something fishy was going on with Clonie and Full Tilt, right? And we\’ve always wondered how exactly Full
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Today is the day we watch the all-in-and-busts or all-in-and-double-ups while generally overlooking the pre-river play of players skillfully wielding medium-sized stacks to stay ahead of escalating blinds. It\’s also the day that the 2008 189th through probably 28th or
After it was decided to play one more level after the dinner break, the tournament staff decided to suspend play with just over 38 minutes remaining in level 19. Two possibilities: Since play started an hour later on Friday, ending
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About 215 players head towards their 90 minute dinner break, knowing that they\’re only playing one more level when they return around 9:45pm. At that point, they should be under the magical 175 figure tournament director Jack Effel had mentioned
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Registration for the HORSE event is closed, and the official-looking board shows 148 players, which was the exact number of registrants last year. One notable player absent from the field: Allen Cunningham. No word on why he did not play.
Events from the evening part of day 16: In what is certainly a first (at least I think so), two brothers have won a bracelet in the same World Series of Poker. Blair Hinkle, whose brother Grant won the $1,500
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