CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell has been very busy today reporting from the Penn & Teller Theatre at the Rio as ESPN and the WSOP staff are busy preparing the final table to resume Saturday at 12 noon Pacific […]
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Some astute Pokerati commenters have broken down the November Nine prizepool bump (note to self: actually read WSOP media guide; people worked hard on that) … and man, the economy the economy … Thanks to KevMath, Mean Gene, and Fifth
The long wait is almost over as the November Nine take their place at the final table Saturday afternoon. The following look at stack sizes, seat position, blind levels, M, etc. is part of a much larger post I made
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Thanks to Nolan Dalla, here\’s a copy of the November Nine Media Guide. It\’s 26 pages filled with information, including bios of the final 9, how they\’ll be seated, and how much additional interest was earned from holding more than
Will a Wall Streeter Win Big at the World Series of Poker? Good article. Semi-interesting guy. Neato that the writer is in Begleiter\’s extended home game and therefore has a piece of him. Overall, the press coverage seems more extensive
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Still up for grabs: the vaunted poker yarmulke awarded to Last Jew Standing. Here\’s a storyline that ESPN somehow missed/didn\’t feed us on the media-prep conference call … It\’s a very Jewish WSOP main event final table. The Jewish Daily
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The new World Series site just went live, just in time for the November Nine … check it out at either WSOP.com or WorldSeriesofPoker.com. For the past couple years, Bluff has been running the WSOP website — they actually paid
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ESPN had a little tele-press conference about the upcoming coverage of the WSOP November Nine. ESPN\’s chief Flack George McNeilly moderated the call, and on it taking questions were Norman Chad, Lon McEachorn and Doug White, ESPN\’s Senior Director of
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\”Anything to help poker out is fine with me.\” As discussed on this week\’s The Poker Beat … Phil Ivey is making friendly with the cameras these days. He sits down for nine minutes with PokerTube.com to talk about what
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Not to get all Lady Gaga over Phil Ivey … but seriously, the dude who\’s only the third-biggest tournament winner in history seldom speaks to anyone not engaged in some sort of gamble with him for more than 30 seconds
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