Your WSOP Experience is hardly complete without a drink or seven at the notorious Rio hooker bar … and while I skipped out early on post-coronation festivities, Pauly stuck around to yuk it up with Otis and Howard (from PokerStarsBlog.com, […]
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The hallways surrounding the Penn & Teller Theater at the Riohave been bustling since just after 8am this morning. From media anxious to find their seats and set up for a long day to poker fans, including multitudes of friends
Pre-Festivities FestivitiesExcitement Turns to Restlessness
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Pauly and I are back … watching the biggest sit-n-go in the history of poker, very live-ish from the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio. As fans were filing in, chips were being unbagged, and 4 months of semi-hyped
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Supposedly poker is dying (a slow and painful death). Poker rooms are closing, dealers can\’t get jobs, and one of the top tournament directors in the world is running a relatively rinky dink room in Vegas. (No offense to my
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Was just checking out the RJ for some local election results, and their front-page pic featured a shot of the Nevada State Democratic Party party … Didn\’t even need to read the caption to see that official Go Obama election-night
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There are 50 poker rooms in Las Vegas, so we thought you might appreciate the assistance of fellow degenerates in narrowing down the possibilities of where to play when you come to town. The votes have been tallied … and
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The 2008 World Series has come and gone and will most likely, in a little less than three months, will come again. In the meantime, while cleaning out the computer(s) we\’ve come across these \”lost\” episodes … recorded in the
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Just outside the Amazon Room … seriously, this one makes little sense to me. I suppose it\’s a reminder that while you can take the World Series out of the trailer park, you can\’t take the trailer park out of
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With 92 players remaining, Phil Hellmuth is in about dead-middle of the pack, with 1.28 million chips. He had climbed up from near the bottom of the pack some two hours earlier, where he had to fight off some major
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The remaining 600-something players are in the money, and the field is dwindling fast. Fewer poker fans are checking out the action, and cash game players are practically non-existent. It\’s that time that the World Series begins to come to
