Ouch … on a baddish beat where his trip aces with a jack kicker lost to a trip aces with a nine. That means with 27 players left, there are only two I had heard of before the event started: […]
Matusow Out All Hopes Hinge on Last MySpace Friend Standing
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I continue to work the hallways and set up executive-journo shop this time outside the payouts cage — where Pauly teaches me how to figure out who\’s really backing whom … but not before we get distracted by a player
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Finalist: Best Mullet Best Mullet-to-Chipstack Ratio Though unspoken blogger code prevents me from telling you whether or not this is a picture of Iggy, I can tell you that this player was seen at Iggy\’s table well into the main
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Recorded a couple days ago, as we were nearing the bubble … Benjo dropped by Tao of Pokerati studios to give his opinion on poker agents (they suck the blood out of the poker economy), France\’s best WSOP hopes (they\’re
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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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Jack Effel and Oliver Tse (Apologies for the blur, but I had to kick into full-on Stalkerati mode and take these shots while running.)
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For some reason that\’s really kinda hard to figure out, everyone likes Mike Matusow … maybe its because he encompasses the issues of every emotionally disturbed pre-adolescent boy any of us knew or were. So when you can be entertained
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A little leftover T-o-P audio, recorded late-night on Day 2B, as I throw the entire observant media for a loop by setting up shop outside the standard media home bases for the biggest Day 2 in the history of poker.
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Grumble grumble … things looked to be going so well for Pat Poels. for the past two days, his stacks hardly appeared to be changing, even though he was consistently staying just ahead of average. And he did this all
