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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474 players remain when play starts again at 1pm, some happy to have made the money, others hoping for a much bigger prize later this year. Brian Schaedlich, who started day 3 with over 800,000 in chips, ended up with
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First, some belated congratulations to the winners of the tournaments that started on Monday. The media tournament was won by Brett Collson of pocketfiveslive.com (he donated his $5,000 prize to the Wounded Warrior Project. The casino employees winner was Jonathan
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Another sign of the changing times? Doyle Brunson busted out of the main event yesterday, and for the first time in as long as I can remember — at least all the way back to 2005 — he exited the
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That\’s two cashes so far for Schneider. This one paid a net $1,743. Congratulations-ish, Tom.. Nice to book another win, and this one should cover two or three of the many dozens of blinds you\’ve defended poorly in the cash
Oh, and Tom Won Again Fans go wild over 64th place finish in $1,500 limit event
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With apologies … not even close to the Greatest Deadpan … but it\’s getting late here in the Amazon room … (of course the night is just getting started everywhere else in Vegas). Has me wondering why the Amazon room
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There\’s a lot of hootin\’ and hollerin\’ going on in the Amazon room … The cash-game quadrant is absolutely packed, and the feature-table stadium is going arbusto about something … what I have no clue (kinda weird how the media
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Dealers are taking their seats for the $2,000 NLH event that\’s about to start — cards in the air in 20 minutes, supposedly … and suddenly, out of nowhere, we have \”I Feel Good\” blasting on the loudspeakers in the
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IT\’S A MIRACLE: Full Tilt wasn\’t exactly a poker powerhouse in 2000, the year Chris Ferguson won the main event. There are 35 big banners hanging up around the Amazon room — a pretty cool ring-of-honor thing going on —
Walking on Watermarks Why Is Chris Ferguson Special?
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