Getting caught up and back in the swing of things — slowly but surely — so what better way than to listen to the most recent episode of The Poker Beat? Rookie twitterer @GaryWise1 took his turn in Capt. Huff\’s […]
Coming Down from the WSOP The Poker Beat
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The $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Championship drew a field of 1,054 entrants, but the major discussion has been about the 10-15 men who were part of the field. Because of anti-discrimination laws, the WSOP staff can not legally prevent men from
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Interesting story in the Miami Herald about Joe Cada, Kevin Schaffel (Florida\’s representative in the November Nine), skill vs. luck, and whether or not the game is good for you. My favorite line(s): \”We had 115 different countries have players
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Posts on 2+2 earlier this morning mentioned a tentative 2010 WSOP schedule, but for those who take a look at it will note there\’s still some work to be done. For example, the first event on the list is dated
A shocker but not really … Jeffrey Pollack and Harrah\’s are breaking up. The WSOP Commissioner, President, and Twitterer in Chief\’s last day with Harrah\’s and the World Series is today. \”I\’ve made the decision after four years of successfully
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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One of Pokerati\’s media eavesdroppers got the real skinny on what went wrong with the Finnish national anthem yesterday. Indeed, Jeffrey Pollack and Seth Palansky acknowledged to each other that the anthem played to honor $10k Mixed World Champion Ville
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For those who missed it … or those who like to play the same song over and over again on CD or iPod … here\’s the audio from today\’s conference call — featuring WSOP Commissioner Chief Twitterer Jeffrey Pollack, WSOP
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The WSOP just sent out their 2009 Media Guide, and damn, gotta say … there\’s a lot of stuff in there. In an attempt to show the true bigness of it all … Beyond the basics like schedules, past winners,
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. . . according to Harrah’s Sports and Entertainment Director of Communications Seth Palansky. Palansky appeared on Gary Wise’s podcast Wise Hand Poker (the 11/19/08 episode) to talk about various subjects, including doing a little post-mortem of the delayed WSOP
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