If you don\’t think poker is in a transitional time, you\’re stupid you should. A sign of this old-timer era being put out to pasture went virtually overlooked at the start of this WSOP or maybe a little before it […]
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This hedline could refer to thousands of players, of course, but I\’m talkin\’ bout Pokerati\’s own Donkey … who busted out on the near last hand. He re-raised with a broadway open-ender, got called with a flush draw, and a
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So really, I know poker players aren\’t supposed to be religious superstitious, but paying 666 players in the main event?
World Series of Satan? Read More »
Argh, it\’s getting frustrating … so much stuff going on that it\’s hard to keep up, let alone post about it. So here\’s a bit of everything: 6,844 entrants in the 2008 WSOP main event. I jut had a wonderful
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Pauly and I step into the Poker Kitchen to discuss Ante Up for Africa — essentially the We Are the World of poker tournaments — and in doing so chew on the difference between \’80s famine and Darfur genocide, life
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Drove up to my secret shaded, multi-convenient parking spot today … and I noticed something burning. Hmm, Jen said it was hot out here, and we know flammables blow up in the heat. But the funny part was the one
Our horse of the day has about 14,500 chips. He looks very focussed — so much so that he seemed a little put off by some unprofessional media guy who went up to him in the middle of play and
I meet up with Pauly in the Amazon Room, observing the end of Day 1A, where we speculate on on the over/under for the overall main event field size and the price of my watch. Otis then jumps in with
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From the LVRJ (via HoldemRadio): \”Let me get back to you on it,\” he said. \”I haven\’t thought about the issue.\” He did say he had concerns about Internet gaming originating in foreign countries. Of course, this happens because of
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Poker pros, poker media, WSOP execs, agents, and interns convened a couple days ago at the Sapphire Club for the Bluff Magazine party — a delightfully rancorous f’te celebrating the end of regular WSOP season and kicking off the main
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