Poker will have to wait to see Isildur1 in more-than-virtual action. Tony G informs us that they mystery Swede has backed out of a staking deal with the G that woulda had him playing on PartyPoker\’s televised Big Game IV. […]
Isildur1 Won’t Make TV Appearance + Poker entrance music
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Isildur has been outed — supposedly it really is Viktor Blom, insists Luke FullFlush Schwartz. That jibes with what Tony G had been saying months ago — but recently he has backed off attaching any name to the mysterious Swedish
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The final table of the Bay 101 Shooting Stars Classic concluded early Saturday morning as McLean Karr, down to just 10 big blinds with 27 players left when day 3 started, winning $878,500, which includes a $25,000 WPT Championship seat,
McLean Karr takes down WPT Bay 101 title Hellmuth knocked out in 6th
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UPDATE: Tony G is now blogging for PartyPoker, too. Oops, I can\’t believe I forgot Tony G in my Power 20 rankings … the man who directly controls the paycheck of so many of my cronies and the bankroll of
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Unconfirmed … but that\’s the word we\’re spreading, based on possibly drinky information from a semi-reliable source, a presumably reliable source, and a plausibly reliable source. The status of PokerPages has been up in the air ever since they announced
NeverwinPoker.com, the filthiest, most offensive poker site on the internet — filled with racist, sexist, drug-addled degeneracy and perverse nudity that provided a voice for a notably vile, socially maladjusted segment of the poker world — is no longer, or
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Recapping Sunday night\’s action: Bracelet Winners go 1-2-4 in Limit Shootout Greg Mueller becomes the fourth double bracelet winner at this year\’s WSOP, taking down the $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout, good for $194,854 as he denied Marc Naalden his second
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Recapping the rest of Saturday\’s action: Cantu Wins Bracelet #2 In a battle of bracelet winners, Brandon Cantu defeated Lee Watkinson heads-up to win his second career bracelet in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better event, good for $228,867.
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Before Pauly skipped town to go all hippy on the leeward side of the Appalachian Trail, he and I had a little chat about the press setup at the WSOP (with an unintentional guest appearance by TD Steve) in which
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The $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event started at noon today, and it appeared they were competing with the two Day 1\’s of the $1,000 NL Holdem Stimulus Special in terms of winnowing the field in a hurry. As the players
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