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While scouting the tables for Full Tilt Pros, qualifiers, and other notables, I noticed that The Batman was sitting at White Table #5, Seat 2.
Outside the Rio, The Batman is either a wealthy idle socialite or a 25 year old medical student from Toronto.
Around Level 3, the tables in the Pavilion were broken up [...]

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Batman at the WSOP: An Interview with the Caped Crusader

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One of our Danish qualifiers, Horatio, won two Main Event seats in a week, flew from Denmark to Vegas, and then was almost unable to play.  Luckily, he had a redraw after the life bad beat…

So is this your first WSOP?
Yes.  It’s always been a dream of mine to play in the Main [...]

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WSOP Interview with a Danish Full Tilt Poker Qualifier

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Tom “durrrr” Dwan entered the final day of Event #55: $10,000 PLO with a huge chip lead.  He quickly lost 70% of his chips before a near triple-up put him back at the top of the leaderboard.  Thinking this might be another epic run at a bracelet with the biggest names in poker sweating (literally), [...]

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Notes from Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s Brief Event #55 WSOP Bracelet Run

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Our WSOP interview with Full Tilt Poker qualifier and forum regular Francois8 was pretty popular, so we wanted to do it again.  This time, we’ve got FTP forum moderator GypsyDC playing in her first WSOP: Event #54: $1,000 NLH.  We’ll get some photos up here as soon as possible.  For now, here’s the interview.
So how [...]

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WSOP Interview with FTP Forum Moderator GypsyDC

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Following up on Al’s recent Player of the Year Front-runners post:
From now through Saturday at noon ET, you can register for our “Fantasy Player of the Year” contest, in which you attempt to correctly pick the top three finishers in the WSOP’s Player of the Year rankings.  It’s free to enter and particularly good for [...]

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Fantasy WSOP Player of the Year Contest

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Poker fans with a fondness for social media will be happy to learn that Tom “durrrr” Dwan has now joined the ranks of active Tweeters.  Durrrr’s Twitter page is twitter.com/Tom_Dwan.  There were previously a lot of fake Tom Dwan Twitter pages.  This one is real.
The Full Tilt WSOP coverage site collects durrrr and other Full [...]

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Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s Twitter – The Real One

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Poker from the Rail reader Pokerbooster presents the final hands and results from Events #45, 46, 48.  Pokerbooster and the lovely Mrs. Pokerbooster were married this Saturday – and they still managed to get their guest post in!  (No word on whether Bill Chen planned the wedding.)
Thanks Pokerboosters and congratulations on the wedding!

Event #45 $1,500 [...]

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Pokerbooster’s Final Hands and Results from WSOP Events 45, 46, 48

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Poker from the Rail’s Top 5 Stories of the Week (June 20-27)
5.  What do Scott Montgomery and Gavin Smith have in common?
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3.  New Zealand and Australia: How is Oceaniac poker law changing?
2.  Frank Kassela won his 2nd Bracelet of the 2010 WSOP: What’s a guy [...]

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Top 5 Stories of the Week (June 20-27): Bracelet Wins, The ToC, and Legal Progress

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Dean Hamrick, Ian Gordon, and Gavin Smith all took home WSOP bracelets this weekend.  Poker from the Rail reader Pokerbooster has the final hands and final table results from Events #42, 43, and 44.

Event #42 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Total Entrants: 2,521
1. Dean Hamrick $604,222
2. Thomas O’Neal $375,627
3. Ian Wiley $265,869
4. Niccolo Caramatti $191,744
5. Aaron Kaiser [...]

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Pokerbooster’s Final Hands and Results from WSOP Events: 42, 43, 44

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This week’s WSOP Caption Contest is a little different.  Instead of only choosing one winner for each photo, we’ll have three winners per photo.  500 FTP points for all 9 winners.
Deadline for submission is 12:01am ET Wednesday.  Winners will be announced at that time.  All submissions will be entered in a freeroll at 3pm ET [...]

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WSOP Caption Contest #3: 4,500 FTP Points up for Grabs

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