NHUCP Day 1 Wrap-Up
I guess the bad beats finally caught up to me … I was near the top of the leaderboard all day, but in the last quadrant got smacked … as did Gavin Smith, via bad beat, who was my pick […]
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Gavin-Smith
The Real Deal: McCain or ObamaPoker pros make their endorsements known
I attended the grand opening/premiere/LV poker mixer for The Real Deal at the Venetian on Tuesday. I\’m still processing what I witnessed — but I am pretty sure it was the official jumping of the shark for poker, as some
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Cirque du Poker?
The poker shark just can\’t seem to be jumped. While I don\’t expect to see All In: The Musical on broadway any time soon, apparently some people believe that poker players actually go see shows, or at least that they
Happy Birthday to YouTube RawVegas
RawVegasTV is celebrating its 1-year anniversary … a not-so-shocking milestone for an operation built on the concept of Joe Sebok eating four taquitos to Gavin Smith\’s 2.5 and Google searches for \”denise pernula naked\”. With a staff of 12, they\’ve
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Backroll Management
The video of Shannon Shorr\’s drunken shenanigans last summer in Las Vegas that almost led to his becoming the Christopher Reeve of Poker has been posted on YouTube. 22-year-old kids with lots of money are so funny in how they
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Brackets Are Rigged
So it was fun making picks … but not so fun to watch the results trickle in. Everyone\’s talking about their brackets around Caesar\’s Palace — lots of money being unofficially wagered as heads-up fans excitedly bemoan the upsets and
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Even more Heads-up Poker Championship
Tom moves on Tom is out
6:45 — Johnathan Little d. Erik Seidel. \”Plenty of awfully good players are going down,\” says TJ Cloutier to Seidel. 6:46 — \”Gavin Smith has moved all-in\” [to quote the NBC announcer. \”Gavin Smith with about 10,000. 10,300. Tom Schneider
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Heads-up Championship 2: Clubs-bracket tidbits
Because I happen to be here
6:02 — Who is this announcer guy? Not too exciting nor comprehensive. 6:03 — Funny, he just made it over to the Tom vs. Gavin table … pointed out that Tom was trailing by \”a little more than a few
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NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship Bracket
Battle of the Podcast Stars. The 64-player field competing for $500,000 (on a $20k buy-in) this weekend has been set (up) — with pairings drawn last night at a kick-off party at Pure. Some of the more interesting pairings to
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Pure Raided by IRS
I can’t seem to get away from the shadiness
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
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