The Rumble at the Rio had its press conference/weigh-in ceremony today in the Rio Pavilion hallway to introduce Liv Boeree (representing UltimateBet) and Melissa Castello (representing PokerNews), who will be fighting each other on July 1 for publicity charity. ESPN […]
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Ville or Won\’t He? The $10,000 NL 2-7 Lowball World Championship just concluded with Nick Schulman eliminating Ville Wahlbeck in heads-up play to take down his first WSOP bracelet and $279,750. Six Guns Left in Shootout With six players left
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Recapping some of the events of today at the the Rio: JP wins bracelet at WSOP John-Paul Kelly took down the $1,500 Pot-Limit Holdem event a few minutes ago besting Marc Tschirch in headsup play to win his first career
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A WSOP record 7 bracelet events were underway on Wednesday afternoon, three of them eventually reaching their conclusions. As noted in my report last night, Jason Mercier got some success in the US, taking home a bracelet in the $1,500
Finishing up business from Monday night before moving on… The $1,000 NL Holdem Stimulus Special finished at 3am today with 50 players returning at 1pm to play down to a winner. The chip leader is Robert Comegys from Grand Prairie,
The WPT L.A. Poker Classic main event is in full swing at the Commerce Casino in cloudy-but-mid-70\’s SoCal, and the turnout for the $10K main is spectacular. It started on Saturday with 696 entrants according to PokerNews and 695 according
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This has been out for a few weeks now, but I\’m reading it for the first time … found via Pauly, who also let us know about John Caldwell\’s unexpected-at-this-moment-in-time-but-not-surprising departure as editor in chief of PokerNews. I know most
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It\’s now official, the LAPT tournament at the Marival Resorts and Suites in Nuevo Vallerta, Mexico has now been canceled according to Dr. Pauly over at Pokernews. How it\’s being resolved is that the remaining 89 players (among them Greg
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The scandal seems to be at an end, at least as far as official statements go. PokerNews took the first shot and Tiffany Michelle took the last, or so it seems, but somewhere in the middle, PokerNews\’ big daddy, Tony
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The recent brouhaha involving Tiffany Michelle, her agent, PokerNews, and UltimateBet has become a bit less one-sided clearer with the release of an official statement from Tiffany Michelle. PokerNews released an official slam statement on its popular website – incidentally,
