Darvin Moon stood out among the \’09 November Nine not for the play that got him 2nd place (and $5.2 million) … but because he stood alone. The logger who had never been on a \”big airplane\” before the WSOP […]
Darvin Moon Signed Sponsor-resistant November Niner selling out to Heartland Poker Tour?
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Love a good Twitter fight … but sometimes social media can hurt! Was gettin\’ all geared up for an exciting #FollowFriday when I got this reminder of how much things have changed. Alas … But hey, I\’ll always have this
Episode 69: Cutting Loose with Change100 – Dan and Pauly give Change100 a little guff for working \”Michalski hours\” after showing up at 9pm. Her WSOP assignment is official over, but she\’s at the Rio to check out the last
Poker Media, Poker Players, Poker Agents: Getting Down to 27 Tao of Pokerati
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Gotta love Benjo and Pauly for keeping me (and therefore you) updated not just on results … but more so with what\’s really happening on the Amazon floor as the first of three televised events — the $50k Players Championship
Agents Seeking Audience + Pat-on-Backers @ $50k Final TableTao of Pokerati
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Check it out … Rising poker diva Liv Boeree is in the December issue of British Maxim, which just recently went up online. While some in poker may scoff at her mere $200k in lifetime tournament winnings, hey, there\’s not
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Pat Poels went out yesterday. And TBR, relying on the scurrilous poker media\’s \”reporting\” that I am a cooler and getting antsy about making the money today, requested, \”Don\’t come anywhere near my table today.\” So fine. I didn\’t. And
Team Pokerati Follows FollowAll hopes on DonkeyBomber
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A patch-wearing Team Pokerati player goes almost-deep in the $1k Stimulus Special, and Pauly seizes on his own feint connection to the player by becoming an dirty-rotten-scoundrel agent to potentially exploit his winnings. That\’s my take on it … Pauly
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Peter Eastgate won it. Age 22. New Great Dane. It\’s too late, of course for the newspapers (East Coast, at least) to get the results into the paper … so you\’ll have to watch it plausibly live on ESPN! (Actually,
Youngest Main Event WSOP Champion Ever!(Shhh, don’t tell anyone …)
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Ouch … on a baddish beat where his trip aces with a jack kicker lost to a trip aces with a nine. That means with 27 players left, there are only two I had heard of before the event started:
Matusow Out All Hopes Hinge on Last MySpace Friend Standing
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I continue to work the hallways and set up executive-journo shop this time outside the payouts cage — where Pauly teaches me how to figure out who\’s really backing whom … but not before we get distracted by a player
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