(Lost first post because of Rio internet. F!@$&! Abbreviated version here.) The goal of Day 4 was to play five levels, though it the tournament staff noted that if the field dwindled from the starting number of 474 down to […]
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Change 100 reports (via PokerNews): 25,000 Chips Introduced \”Hey, what are those green chips in your stack?\” asked a surprised Maya Antonius. A small stack of forest green chips sat atop her tablemate\’s stack of yellows and oranges. He showed
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These shots were taken on Day 2, and they show the player sitting to Pat Poels\’ left trying to sneak a peak at his hole cards. I told Pat about this, btw, and like Tommy Grand or Joey Greco, I
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With a double-up on his first hand, and a favorable flop on his next push, we started to believe … alas, the World Series has ended for Whit, who repped Dallas, Texas, Pokerati, and average white guys with day jobs
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Craig Cunningham likes to — during the main event particularly — look at data, tabulate it, and occasionally share the results with his fellow poker bloggers. Today he sends along a good quick-list of the blind levels we\’ll be seeing
The remaining 600-something players are in the money, and the field is dwindling fast. Fewer poker fans are checking out the action, and cash game players are practically non-existent. It\’s that time that the World Series begins to come to
The 2008 main event gets into the money, and 666 players in the World Series of Satan Poker experience $20,000+ of pleasure. It\’s an exciting time as a bunch of people take pleasure in one man\’s demise (who then get\’s
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Fernando Gordo is the Argentinian who started the day with just under 140,000 chips. Only thing … he pulled a Vinny Vinh and didn\’t show up. Well, with 1,500 chips remaining — 1 yellow, 1 blue — he survived the
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We\’re 19 players away from the magic evil bubble at the start of my writing this post. Hands began to accelerate dramatically — lots of all-ins over the past half-hour, almost frantically so — and now here come the brakes
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Phil Gordon is still alive and well in the main event — and because he clearly doesn\’t have his podcast priorities straight, I got to sit in for him on ESPN\’s The Poker Edge. This was new poker podcast territory
