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It’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel here in the states (I’m too lazy to see if the Discovery Channel and Shark Week are available outside the lower 48) and appropriately enough the huge cash games on Full Tilt Poker began hitting up at the same time.  The “durrrr” Challenge resumed after a summer hiatus, [...]

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Shark Week 2010

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It’s been a while since anyone witnessed a performance like we saw last night on Full Tilt by Jordan “Jymaster11″ Young. By the wee hours of the morning he found himself with two major victories and a huge jump in bankroll. The last time I can recall a single player taking down two [...]

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Big Money Sunday – August 1st

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If you are a poker player in the United States, especially if you play online, you were probably aware of a bill which was introduced yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives by our biggest Congressional supporter Barney Frank. The bill was introduced in the Financial Services Committee and spent several hours going through [...]

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H.R. 2267 and the Future

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Bad beats suck. It’s just the nature of the game. Unless you have your opponent drawing completely dead, you have a chance to be on the ugly side of a slim draw. Spending the last few years around both live and online poker games, I have seen my fair share of just incredibly [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Top Main Event Bad Beats

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Those who spend the first two months of the summer in Las Vegas covering the WSOP tend to think of it as “summer camp” by the time we hit the end. So many people you see day in and day out, watching the same action, writing about the same players. Summer camp ended [...]

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Big Money Sunday – July 25th

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Things are finally starting to settle down around here where I’ve mostly recovered from forced sleep deprivation and a poor diet. Dealing with the fantastic weather on the east coast (hot and humid as opposed to the Vegas hot) and getting ready to cover the next four months with WSOP and other poker fun.
Here [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: What’s next?

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The final hours of the 2010 WSOP drug on forever and ever. Here were just some of my thoughts as the night went on.
Wiped out. That’s about the only way to describe how I felt after sunrise on Sunday morning. In the Amazon Room by 11am on Saturday morning and walking out [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: The Final Hours

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It’s been a long summer and we’re down to the last day. Only 27 players are left standing in the Main Event with fully 2/3 of them considering the day a failure. They all have one goal, build the chipstack and book a spot in the 2010 November Nine. Anything can happen [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 8 Live

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There is a definite buzz in the Amazon Room even though the place is nearly empty. Just a little island of light in an ocean of darkness, but under those lights are 78 players looking to make poker history. Some probably went out to drink to their success til late in the evening, [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 7 Live

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Today is the first where we finally begin to form “dream” final table set ups, with just 200 players remaining in the field we have a good idea throughout the day who’s making drastic moves in either direction. It was even a little tough with less than 500 to start the day yesterday but [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 6 Live

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