Just an Observation …
No new sponsors added to the WSOP in the November Nine interim … save for AMC-The Prisoner on Steve Begleiter. (We did, however, get a free packet of beef jerky upon entering the building.)
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November Nine
A Fan’s View
As the PokerRoad boys say, \”If you can\’t take the best of it, take the worst of it.\” For Kevin Schaffel, that meant getting all in preflop with pocket Aces vs. Eric Buchman\’s pocket Kings and losing to quads. Live
The Biggest Hush So Far
We\’re 6 hours into the action, Phil Ivey is All-in (with ~ 20 BB in his stack) and Jeff Shulman is in the tank …. The crowd is shushing each other all of the sudden. And re-shushing. It\’s like everyone
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When Worlds Collide
We\’ve talked a little about cheering sections at today\’s final table, but we\’ve saved the strangest combination of superfans for last. Sitting on stage near their main man Phil Ivey are the Humphreys, the little old couple who have rooted
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Semi-live Everything Blog
So much craziness going on, and we\’ve hardly covered any poker. James Akenhead hit a sick three-outer — the crowd erupted — to triple up, and Antoine Saout called an all-in bluff from Darvin Moon with two pair to stay
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A Bird’s Eye View
The Penn & Teller theater is a big room with seating for hundreds of friends, family and media folk. Some of us are down on the floor close to the action while others, like me, are relegated to the sky
Staring ‘Em Down
Phil Ivey made the first all-in move of the day and the crowd went… silent. It was certainly the tensest moment so far as both Joe Cada and Jeff Shulman considered taking Ivey on and, potentially, knocking him out. In
Julie Schneider at the November Nine
In spirit … Phil Ivey just took down his first pot, and a voice from the crowd screamed: \”Stack\’em, stack\’em, to the top!\”
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Jack Effel’s Fan Etiquette Lessons + Crowd Screams
Pomp and circumstance is underway … and a betuxed TD Jack Effel began with a lesson on \”poker fan etiquette\”. Jack\’s rules: Cheer and clap all you want Do not, however, interfere with play in any way by screaming \”Go
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RIP Hans “Tuna” Lund
The day before the November Nine return to conclude the World Series of Poker Main Event comes word from Matt Savage on the passing of poker veteran Hans \”Tuna\” Lund earlier this morning of cancer at the age of 59.
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