I\’m having some trouble with properly title-ing this stuff … but follow along, as \”Book 4\” is definitely the event going on here at the Penn and Teller Theater that we are discussing. This time, Pauly and I witness a […]
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As action gets underway, Pauly and I check out the crowds and the difference in expectation between Dennis Phillips\’ and Kelly Kims\’ fans before debating the name of the whole shebang — November Nine, bleh — while paying homage to
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Pauly and I are back … watching the biggest sit-n-go in the history of poker, very live-ish from the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio. As fans were filing in, chips were being unbagged, and 4 months of semi-hyped
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So action is about to get underway. Players are unbagging their chips now. A few thoughts on what we are seeing/hearing: Dennis Phillips has close to 200 fans — all of them are wearing the same shirt he is, with
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Supposedly poker is dying (a slow and painful death). Poker rooms are closing, dealers can\’t get jobs, and one of the top tournament directors in the world is running a relatively rinky dink room in Vegas. (No offense to my
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… even though the dudes from PokerListings think so when they drink. If competitive eating were to become the next poker, though, it would probably be fun to see the field whittled down to a \”final table\”. For those interested
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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
The Poker Players Alliance continues to do good stuff … and they just opened up a new website — CongressionalPoker.org — where you can type in your zip code and find out which candidates are and aren\’t on poker\’s side.
In a move that may or may not say anything about the state of poker on TV (or even just the state of TV for that matter), the show Stargate Atlantis is doing a little filming in Vegas today …
Mike Sexton apparently has a new gig over at my personal poker news RSS reader PokerNewsDaily, and in his debut column shares his real thoughts on the 2008 WSOP. They are respectful (of course) but, the WPT television co-host doesn\’t
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