Ylon Schwartz check-raises with nothing into the nuts of Peter Eastgate, and Pauly and I begin the countdown and begin speculating on what two Eurokids (and maybe even Dennis Phillips) will mean for poker/PokerStars … and where poker is in […]
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At this moment, Dennis Phillips is drawing dead with one card to come. That will be 3rd place for him — his boisterous crowd and his Red Hat Brigade are honoring him the way friends of someone who has just
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Courtesy of PokerStars blog Wow! It was an all-in moment, good instinct moment, and big whoop-tee-doo all in one. Eastgate made the initial raise, and short-stacked Montgomery pushed all-in from the small blind. Eastgate called with pocket sixes, and Montgomery
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Players are off on dinner break … and the chip counts are nicely on display for all to see: Ivan Demidov: 30,725,000 Peter Eastgate: 27,175,000 Dennis Phillips: 26,950,000 Ylon Schwartz: 20,475,000 Scott Montgomery: 20,300,000 Darus Suharto: 10,600,000 Damn, that\’s tight
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Courtesy of PokerStars Blog David \”Chino\” Rheem hasn\’t had the best of days. After starting his trip to Vegas with some questionable logo decisions and seeming uncertainty about to follow through on a deal, it seemed that karma wasn\’t on
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Lou Kreiger is reporting the new rumored big-media poker date is Nov. 9. Makes sense to me. So long as nothing really-really big happens between now and then. Otherwise I\’d expect a President/Election story, something political (probably about the environment,
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In a stunning development, one of the WSOP November Nine has cashed in a poker tournament. And it just happened to be Kelly Kim, the shortest stacked player waiting to head back to the Rio in Las Vegas to attempt
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A few weeks back, a bunch of us got a press release from PokerStars boasting that six of The November Nine were Team PokerStars players. Now don\’t get me wrong — I\’ve got lots of friends at PokerStars and generally
Some numbers coming in over the Batpod … about deals surrounding the November Nine as they made their way to the main event final table: According to super-duper-secret well-connected, highly reliable inside sources some guy in Colorado, Peter Eastgate, the
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Not long after I wrote about the finalists in the main event who might be closer to Pokerati than our own families – call that the blurry misconception of the WSOP long haul – one of our top two left
