When Team Pokerati-er Whit Blanton rivered a royal flush at the Hard Rock at the beginning of the Series, I publicly congratulated him but inside poo-pooed his blurry handheld photography. But after flopping one of my own while playing 2/5 […]
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It seems fitting that Greg \”FBT\” Mueller won his bracelet on \”hockey day\” — being that he\’s a former professional hockey player. I\’m sure that will make his win last night in $10k Limit Hold\’em all the more memorable. The
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Admittedly, hockey is far from my favorite sport. Even hailing from St. Louis Blues country, I\’ve never been a hockey fan. So as the NHL Charity Shootout sponsored by PokerStars was underway on the ESPN stage, I wasn\’t exactly compelled
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Covering the afternoon coverage of Sunday afternoon at the WSOP: de Wolfe wins de Triple Crown Roland de Wolfe became the second player (after Gavin Griffin) to win poker\’s Triple Crown (Winning a WSOP bracelet, WPT main event and EPT
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Bill Smith: Finding a pic of the 1985 main event champ has proved near impossible without Google image search. We love spreading rumors based on limited information and wild speculation here at Pokerati … but sometimes we can\’t help ourselves
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Word about the payment processor shizznit was definitely part of the buzz around the Rio today. We should know in about a week whether this is poker\’s version of the swine flu, or if it spreads into something far more
Before Pauly skipped town to go all hippy on the leeward side of the Appalachian Trail, he and I had a little chat about the press setup at the WSOP (with an unintentional guest appearance by TD Steve) in which
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The implementation of this year\’s WSOP bracelet ceremonies have been a hit thus far, as play is stopped in the Amazon Room for Jack Effel and Jeffrey Pollack to announce the previous day\’s bracelet winners, award them the bracelets and
Just talked to one of my dealer sources — a reliable one, with decades worth of experience, not the sort who just likes to bitch after blowing a night\’s worth of tips playing video poker … and she tells me,
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Two WSOP bracelets were awarded early in the morning on Monday, but the recipients were not new to earning some hardware. First, Vitaly Lunkin took down the 40th Annual $40,000 NL Holdem event, outlasting Isaac Haxton after a three-hour heads-up
