The readers have spoken … and 42 percent of you are so damn principled that you wouldn\’t even consider accepting tournament buy-ins from Ultimate Bet or Absolute, while 22 percent have a more mercenary attitude and/or have forgiven UB/AP. 18 […]
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For the 36 40 percent of our readers who happen to be non-American, we probably don\’t do enough to keep you up-to-date on the goings-on of our good mates at PartyPoker. Their stock seems fine (at least better than the
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Team UB: These sponsored players proudly wear the Ultimate Bet logo and/or the emblem of Satan. I meant to put this picture up (or at least its predecessor) about 10 months ago to make fun of Tom, who was being
I really don\’t know where I stand on this — especially without knowing the backing details and long-term intangibles — nor whether or not it\’s even my position to have a stance when I think just about everyone is stupid,
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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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WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack and WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb taking in the spectacle of the main event and whatever it may suggest about what\’s ahead on the poker horizon. All WSOP-long I\’ve been seeing Lyle Berman and feeling torn between
If you don\’t think poker is in a transitional time, you\’re stupid you should. A sign of this old-timer era being put out to pasture went virtually overlooked at the start of this WSOP or maybe a little before it
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2008 HORSE Champion Scotty Nguyen is playing on the ESPN feature table … in a different uniform. The VietPrince of Poker was decked out in Full Tilt gear last week. This week it\’s PokerStars … He\’s not an actual Team
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Harrah\’s, the WSOP, and just about everybody is being tight-lipped about how many folks are gonna be in the Big One \’08. Presumably because no one knows. I\’m still thinking 7k is a pretty good over-under. We have no totals
Secret Registration Numbers: 4,649 as of 5 pm Day 1A Read More »
And Tao of Pokerati is all over it a day and a half ago! Listen live, or at least semi-live, as Pauly and Benjo (filling in) speculate on my whereabouts (and the Pokerati sex slave business empire) when their hardcore
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