Getting caught up and back in the swing of things — slowly but surely — so what better way than to listen to the most recent episode of The Poker Beat? Rookie twitterer @GaryWise1 took his turn in Capt. Huff\’s […]
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In what some consider a controversial decision, tournament director Jack Effel decided to stop play with 1:15:44 left in level 16 (2,500/5,000 w/ 500 ante) to have the 751 players remaining (747 make the money) take their 90-minute dinner break.
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The final opening day of the Main Event drew a field of 2,391 hopefuls to the Pavilion and Amazon rooms at the Rio on Thursday afternoon. Football Hall of Famer/Dancing with the Stars winner Emmitt Smith kicked off the festivities
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UPDATE: Day 1 of the Main Event will play 60 minutes of level 5. The 90-minute dinner break will take place at the end of level 3. The World Series of Poker, to most people who don\’t follow poker, finally
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A shocker but not really … Jeffrey Pollack and Harrah\’s are breaking up. The WSOP Commissioner, President, and Twitterer in Chief\’s last day with Harrah\’s and the World Series is today. \”I\’ve made the decision after four years of successfully
Pomp and circumstance is underway … and a betuxed TD Jack Effel began with a lesson on \”poker fan etiquette\”. Jack\’s rules: Cheer and clap all you want Do not, however, interfere with play in any way by screaming \”Go
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We could see a change on the fly … according to hubbub I\’m picking up on Pokerati\’s Live Source feed, about 500 players have been shut out of the main event — which interestingly enough makes the semi-arbitrary difference between
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The Day 1c field has returned from its dinner break a few minutes ago, with two more levels to play today. The difference between this field and the first two Day 1\’s is that the field as well as tomorrow\’s
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For those who missed it … or those who like to play the same song over and over again on CD or iPod … here\’s the audio from today\’s conference call — featuring WSOP Commissioner Chief Twitterer Jeffrey Pollack, WSOP
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Today is the annual conference call done by the fine folks at the World Series of Poker (such as Jeffrey Pollack, Jack Effel, someone at Milwaukee\’s Best, someone from Harrah\’s etc), is scheduled to start at 10am PT. The audio
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