North Texas fireworks kingpin Ran Nelson brought his tight-aggressive Dallas game recently to the Mandalay Bay. Though I haven’t been writing much about anything it, I have been hitting the tables here in Vegas. Have sampled a handful of rooms […]
I used to do business with the underground poker rooms in Dallas. I use the phrase \”do business\” lightly, as it generally meant these guys were willing to front me a couple hundred bucks whenever I needed a rebuy, which
Pure Raided by IRS
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It was my final regular Batface home game — $.50/$1 NLH at the new Texas Stadium Fawcett\’s house … even though Fawcett wasn\’t there. I didn\’t really have time to play, but sat in for \”one round,\” and then \”maybe
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Legendary Batface, Darling Phillips, made a ridiculously poor snap decision and is playing in today\’s WPT event at Beau Rivage in Biloxi. Heaven help us, and Heaven help those who try to push him off a flush draw. UPDATE: He
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THACKERVILLE, Okla.–North Texas player Abteen Vaziri just said now that I know his name I can delete it. He is out. He wins $2,500 for finishing in 55th place. Much of Abteen\’s recent success has come from study of Joe
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THACKERVILLE, Okla.–Down to 61 players. Average stack is about 80k. Chip leader has about 300k. Blinds are 3000/6000+500. A few chip counts that Pokeratizens might care about: Abteen Vaziri (the \”dude\” whose name I couldn\’t remember on Friday) – 90k
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THACKERVILLE, Okla.–No internet north of the Red River, or at least not at WinStar, where the first of three Day 1s in the $1 million NLH tourney concluded shortly before midnight yesterday. We\’ll try to keep you posted from now
SCOTTSDALE, AZ–Robert, one reason you should feel pretty good about your chances in the Arizona State Poker Championship next weekend … well, let\’s just say the signs are there! Hanging inside the Casino Arizona poker room — pimping the tourney
LAS VEGAS–Funny how being in Las Vegas has put me so out of touch with all the poker news. I think there are some big tournaments going on, online poker execs in the courts, business deals shaking down, but I\’ve
A technologically significant poker match is going down right now in Canada — Phil Laak and Ali Eslami vs. Polaris, a supposedly bad-ass poker bot — for $50,000. This is a scientifically controlled experiment, being played in \”duplicate poker\” format.
