Today also happens to be the anniversary of \”Who Shot JR?\” Twenty-eight years ago today a bajillion people were watching Dallas to find out the answer. Kinda interesting because this gave birth to the concept of a TV cliffhanger — […]
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. . . according to Harrah’s Sports and Entertainment Director of Communications Seth Palansky. Palansky appeared on Gary Wise’s podcast Wise Hand Poker (the 11/19/08 episode) to talk about various subjects, including doing a little post-mortem of the delayed WSOP
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Now that we\’ve finished with the 2008 WSOP, and made our various criticisms of the November Nine, it\’s time to plan for next year\’s WSOP. Most people who watched the final table found it a bit lacking, especially the heads-up
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From the flaks at ESPN: POKER’S PREMIERE EVENT ENJOYS SIGNIFICANT AUDIENCE INCREASE ON ESPN As Denmark’s Peter Eastgate became the youngest champion ever in front of a packed house in Las Vegas, nearly 2.4 million viewers were tuned into ESPN’s
ESPN Numbers InPaging Oliver Tse to Translate
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Hmm, I spent some comment time below advocating for more-live poker … but upon reading this story in the New York Times about the end of the poker boom (by J-school classmate Steve Freiss), I learned something new that kinda
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I\’m curious what y\’all thought about the big-hype show last night. I enjoyed the hands we did see — because really, this final table probably featured some of the best pure poker of any main event sit-n-go I\’ve seen since
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A comment from the USAToday.com sports editor regarding commentors complaints about the \”spoiler\” of the WSOP Main Event winner in the headline: To our readers: We regret offending the handful of commenters who believe we should either not be reporting
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Peter Eastgate won it. Age 22. New Great Dane. It\’s too late, of course for the newspapers (East Coast, at least) to get the results into the paper … so you\’ll have to watch it plausibly live on ESPN! (Actually,
Youngest Main Event WSOP Champion Ever!(Shhh, don’t tell anyone …)
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I go rogue to bring you the bustout of David \”Chino\” Rheem — supposedly the most serious pro at the table, but also the guy with the most serious criminal record. Dude knows how to play hardball, though, as we\’ve
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The day that the poker community has been waiting for has finally arrived, as the November Nine reunite to determine this year\’s \”World Champion\”. Has the 100+ day delay been a success? ESPN says ratings are the highest they\’ve been
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