Huff, Dan, Jess, BJ, and even Stapleton (with the return of the Tight Laydown?): The Poker Beat: October 24, 2010 Poker Hall of Fame inductees Harrington and Seidel, age-minimum debates, and comparisons to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Anonymous […]
Good morning, ladies and gentleman, and welcome to the beginning of… something. You may know me better as Timtern, of Bluff and PokerRoad (non) fame, and I am the newest contributor to Pokerati. I\’m definitely stepping into some giant shoes,
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This Week: Ty Stewart — new WSOP stuff, Poker Hall of Fame, more WSOPE bracelet debate. Matt Savage — WPT-Bellagio/Festa al Lago. Matt Affleck — more WPT-Bellagio/Festa, Washington State, 15th place at WSOP. Trishelle Canatella — beauty quiz + poker.
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My goodness, how many new poker (and non-poker) internet shows can there be … it\’s like everyone in the world has a built-in laptop cam and a connection to the internet! But this new venture from a couple of Poker
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Scott Montgomery, 2008 November Niner … he has a bracelet now, but presumably wasn\’t wearing it this weekend when he says he got accosted by a knife-wielding bandit inside a Bellagio bathroom. (While taking a leak? That could make a
Bellagio Bathroom Bandit Strikes Reported armed robbery at Festa al Lago
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A few fledgling careers getting a bankroll boost, a couple accomplished players cementing their stati as big-time pros, and one not-so-old legend proving (to himself?) he\’s still got something … all in the last two weeks of October: New Yorker
Short jokes aside, \”the little corporal\” of poker is on a Napoleonic quest to dominate the poker world … or at least the WPT. The WPT Festa al Lago final table gets underway this afternoon/eve (4pm PT). After all the
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Big players are (back) in Las Vegas … low Festa al Lago prelim field sizes suggest nothing is as it was a couple years ago, but the higher-stakes action is moving at Bellagio … or at least arriving there. Also
We low-stakes players love the deep-stack events … but as Matt Savage pointed out this summer, and a concern that Andy Bloch has re-raised more recently, big-time pro tourneys don\’t necessarily benefit in the same way from these structures. (The
Super-Deep Stacks, Late RegistrationsWPT Festa al Lago $15k Main Event
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Early reports from the $15k main event of WPT Festa al Lago (at Bellagio) … Michael Phelps showed up to play … he\’s out. And our favorite Donkey Bomber also just got bombed … he got it all-in with Aces
