Las Vegas businessman, poker player, and one-time candidate for Lt. Governor of Nevada, Bob Stupak died today in Las Vegas of leukemia. He was 67-years old. KVBC of Las Vegas printed the news release: BOB STUPAK, LONG-TIME LAS VEGAN, DEVELOPER […]
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While the criteria for getting, retaining, or losing online poker sponsorship deals remains a mystery in many cases, decisions are made, and we regurgitate from press releases report. Some are not surprising, like Jason Mercier signing with PokerStars, while others
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The Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford recently released a slew of papers kept by the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. Interestingly enough, a fellow home game player Walter Berns had a few notes included about the last games played
The room was packed with players, who gathered on short notice to find out what Harrah\’s would do with the hundreds (conservative number) of irate/disappointed/confused players who were denied entry to the 2009 WSOP Main Event because of their late
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The more I read about this, the more I like it. I stumbled across this courtesy of High Stakes News. A Canadian by the name of Bo Fric didn\’t exactly make a success out of his run as a professional
Living the Dream(s)Go Bo!
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A message from WPA Founder Jesse Jones which floated into my email account (among others) earlier this week: WPA FOUNDER MESSAGE I founded the WPA in November 2005 with $100,000 of personal funds as a non-profit association. The mission was
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With the slower structure at the 2008 WSOP main event, the number of players still in the field after all of the Day 1\’s were completed is massive – 3,929 to be exact. Luckily, the second days are divided into
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The moment we\’ve all been waiting for has arrived… The official number of entrants in the 2008 WSOP $10K NLHE main event is 6,844. Second largest field ever. When it was announced that the final 666 players will be in
And the Official Number is… 6844!First Place to Pay Over $9 Million
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Evidently, Robert Williamson III is now a Full Tilt Pro. When I asked an FTP rep about the possibility of a forthcoming press release, I was told that there was not one planned because the information already leaked out. Ummm,
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It seems that the 2008 WSOP is at the halfway point. If judging by days, we are almost there, but if looking at events, more than half of them have concluded and we’re in the second half. Thus far, bits
2008 WSOP Hits Halfway MarkCasualty Toll Yet to Be Determined
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