Change 100 reports (via PokerNews): 25,000 Chips Introduced \”Hey, what are those green chips in your stack?\” asked a surprised Maya Antonius. A small stack of forest green chips sat atop her tablemate\’s stack of yellows and oranges. He showed […]
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These shots were taken on Day 2, and they show the player sitting to Pat Poels\’ left trying to sneak a peak at his hole cards. I told Pat about this, btw, and like Tommy Grand or Joey Greco, I
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Was wondering why I couldn\’t find proud Pokerati patch-wearer Whit Blanton … he\’s on the feature table with an uber-tiny stack in a bad position against Jean-Robert Bellande and Phil Hellmuth. Whit starts the day with 50,500 chips, making him
Craig Cunningham likes to — during the main event particularly — look at data, tabulate it, and occasionally share the results with his fellow poker bloggers. Today he sends along a good quick-list of the blind levels we\’ll be seeing
The 2008 main event gets into the money, and 666 players in the World Series of Satan Poker experience $20,000+ of pleasure. It\’s an exciting time as a bunch of people take pleasure in one man\’s demise (who then get\’s
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Fernando Gordo is the Argentinian who started the day with just under 140,000 chips. Only thing … he pulled a Vinny Vinh and didn\’t show up. Well, with 1,500 chips remaining — 1 yellow, 1 blue — he survived the
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We\’re 19 players away from the magic evil bubble at the start of my writing this post. Hands began to accelerate dramatically — lots of all-ins over the past half-hour, almost frantically so — and now here come the brakes
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Phil Gordon is still alive and well in the main event — and because he clearly doesn\’t have his podcast priorities straight, I got to sit in for him on ESPN\’s The Poker Edge. This was new poker podcast territory
Sorry for the brief delay in getting new episodes of Tao of Pokerati to you. Our production crew was being held hostage by our fellow podcast colleague/competitors at Poker Road and ESPN! They apparently went to all lengths possible to
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Indeed … today we moved from yellow-chip ($1k) threat level to orange ($5k) — with tighter than usual security notably apparent during the green-chip race-off today. After clearing out the fans then players, the perimeters around the table we\’re extra
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