It was inevitable that Phil Hellmuth would do something bizarre when he showed up for the WSOP main event. Last year, he attempted to be a NASCAR driver and crashed. This year, the word was that he was arriving today […]
Hellmuth Creates a Spectacle at WSOPSomething Involving Army Vehicles
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What\’s happening at the WSOP while waiting for the arrival of Phil Hellmuth and the UB Army at 2pm: A little over half of the 1,928 that started play on Day 1c get to return on Wednesday to meet those
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About an hour ago, Tom Grunheid left the building. After a valiant effort and making it through the better part of the day, he moved his short stack and lost. Evidently, Tom had a good time at his first WSOP
Pokerati reader Tom Grunheid won his seat to the 2008 WSOP main event and is representing a group of 28 friends here today. He was here about 20 minutes early when the doors first opened with his carry-cooler full of
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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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The smallest opening day field (1,158) since the WSOP was first held at the Rio in 2005 started play shortly after noon yesterday. The attendance for days 1c and 1d look to be much more encouraging, with at least 3,000
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The 4th of July holiday certainly put a damper on the size of day 1b, as a disappointing 1,158 showed up to play at noon today. Pauly notes that some country music singer did the Star Spangled Banner and some
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It\’s still a little too early to say, obviously. But right now it\’s a guy named Mark Garner. Brandon Adams is close behind. They get to play with the comfort of knowing that essentially, theoretically, they could not play another
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A lot of people. 636 out of 1,297 to be exact. Did your poker beloved cut the WSOP Day 1 main event mustard? Click below to see an alphabetized list of everyone so far moving on — with their chip
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Yesterday afternoon, 1,197 people started with $10,000 and a dream, to win the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. By the time play ended after 1am this morning, only 643 get to return on July 8th for day
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