Mike Wattel just went out in 17th place in the $50k HORSE event, finishing one shy of the money. Can you imagine anything worse? Wattel was tiny-stacked with 20 players left, and managed to hang on with hardly an ante […]
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The bi-weekly \”donkaments\” carry on … Event #49 — $1,500 NLH … 2,700 players. A few of them are people Pokerati cares about covering … Pflaster is back in action, Robert Goldfarb is in the field and texting in updates
Though it\’s not unusual for pros to show up late for WSOP tourneys, something was amiss during one of the last 1500s when Scotty Nguyen didn\’t show up til well into the 100/200 level … Apparently Scotty lost one of
RE: The Monkey Whisperer
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For some reason or another, the following 52 players participated in the $50k HORSE event last year, but not this year. Some of these names, of course, are more interesting than others: Ariel Schneller Bart Hanson Bill Edler Bob Feduniak
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The twins-separated-at-birth concept between the 148-player $50k HORSE fields in both 2007 and 2008 have me playing around like crazy with spreadsheets … 52 players in the 2008 $50k HORSE did not play in 2007 — those currently still alive
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There are 41 players left in The World Championship of $50,000 Chip Reese, each with a mostly differing number of chips: [players of particular semi-personal interest to me in bold] Michael DeMichele – 1030000 Barry Greenstein – 785000 Edwin Ting
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UPDATE: No-stakes Dallas Amateur-turned-Vegas small-stakes pro David Pflaster is hanging in there. Has built his stack back up to about 6,000. \”I did stop-and-go,\” he said, \”the best play in poker … He raised it up and i couldn\’t go
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Another guy you may see representin\’ at the tables: Pat Poels. Pat, of course, is the only two-time bracelet winner on the team. (Tom is just a \”Friend of Pokerati\” for now, while we haggle over contractual obligations.) Not sure
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Playing under our little satanic-spade banner … David Pflaster. Some of you may recall … he got his start playing at the Lodge and before you knew it was getting aces tattooed on his forearms, dealing in Dallas, and about
My 1 percent of Tom in the $50k HORSE now = 0 … 75th place last night … but meanwhile, Johnny Chan (who ended up with many of Tom\’s chips) seems to be the gift-giver that keeps on giving …
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