According to Pokernews, the WSOP has decided to double your starting chip stack on all events this year! This will eliminate some major complaints of players because the previous small stacks really didn\’t allow much room to play poker. When […]
After problems last year with dents en masse and recurring scuffage, the WSOP has switched brands of playing cards … from Copag to Kem. Sure, they cost a little more, but really, when it comes down to it, is Harrah\’s
Just back from Vegas where there were and still are some big tournaments going on at the moment. The Heads Up Championship, The Wynn Classic & The Venetian. To everyone\’s surprise, I was not invited to The Heads Up tournament
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It seems everyday there is a new poker team or new type of poker tournament. Jeff Madsen and Brandon Cantu have returned from the huddle with their fellow teamsters for the PokerBowl. And several couples and tag-team events have already
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Now think about this … What if all those poker teams listed below faced off against each other? Let\’s say, for example, 15 teams, 10 players each — $100k collective team buy-in, $1.5 million prize pool, and a really cool
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Looks like Caesar\’s Palace is hopping with tournaments. Just this past weekend Brandon Cantu and his partner Alexia Standard won the Caesar\’s V-day Couples event. And speaking of partners Jennifer Harmans husband, Marco Traniello, scored an entry into the NBC
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When you are playing in a tournament and you find a marked card (smudged or slightly bent) you must call the floor immediately. The standard solution is to replace the one card rather than the whole deck. This happened twice
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I dont pretend to be a know it all, nor have I played one on TV. But there are times when I know that I am right. Like last Saturday night when playing in my favorite monthly (legal, non-raked) tournament
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Dorkin\’ out with the cushy headphones on … just came across an interesting interview over at Poker Podcast World Max Shapiro = the Diane Rehm of poker? In this episode, Jack talks about the efforts the WSOP is going through
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Tim Lavalli and Amy Calistri just put up some pretty good investigation of the $2 million worth of extra chips that mysteriously appeared during the main event of the WSOP. Must read. They narrow it down to 22 minutes where
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