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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We lost Randack, TBR, and Goldfarb early today, but with three fewer players to follow, we were able to find another one roaming the hallways at dinner break and get him aboard Team Pokerati. Andrew Chud is, um, a rrreally
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WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack and WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb taking in the spectacle of the main event and whatever it may suggest about what\’s ahead on the poker horizon. All WSOP-long I\’ve been seeing Lyle Berman and feeling torn between
A certain WSOP blogger turns what may or may not be the same age as the WSOP today. We, of course, couldn\’t be more delighted to have her spend this day hunkered down for the start of the Main Event
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Good thing Michael DeMichele didn\’t win, or the inscription \”Standing the Test of Time\” might seem a little presumptuous. Chuck in Fort Worth writes in with some kudos and a question about the Chip Reese HORSE trophy. I do not
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