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Youngest Main Event WSOP Champion Ever!(Shhh, don’t tell anyone …)

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

Peter Eastgate won it. Age 22. New Great Dane. It’s too late, of course for the newspapers (East Coast, at least) to get the results into the paper … so you’ll have to watch it plausibly live on ESPN! (Actually, I suspect a few midwestern papers, at least, will be able to get something in at [...]

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Shhh! Peter Eastgate Wins the 2008 World Series of Poker, Youngest EverESPN Will Air Tomorrow Semi-Live So Don’t Tell Anyone

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

A champion is in our midst, and he is the youngest WSOP main event champion ever. Congratulations, Peter Eastgate from Odense, Denmark! Both players got in cheap to see the flop of 2d-Ks-3h. It was Eastgate who bet out, and Demidov check-called. The 4c hit on the turn, which prompted another check from Demidov. Eastgate bet [...]

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Wow, Like There’s Really Good Poker Being Played

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

There’s less than a 4 million chip difference. In history … I think this will go down as one of the best-played final tables in WSOP history, or at least 21st century WSOP main event final tables. We’ll see … I could be wrong. Can’t wait to see some of the hole cards.

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Live Broadcasting of the WSOP Main Event Final Tables

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

If you’re just tuning in and/or need something to pass the time between episodes of Tao of Pokerati … there is a live audio broadcast of what’s going on at the felt — hosted by Nick Geber, who is joined now by Lacey Jones and Daniel Negreanu. Click here to tune in. (With cool chipstack/blind [...]

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WSOP Final Table Notes

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

More than two hours into heads-up play, most of the crowd remains in their seats, despite discovering how slow and uneventful live poker can be at times. Some other points of interest: ~From the time the final table began yesterday, this just turned into the longest WSOP main event final table in history, beating out the [...]

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WSOPeople: 2008 WSOP POY Erick Lindgren

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

E-Dog had the Player of the Year title locked up in July, but the honor and gift was officially bestowed upon him tonight, just prior to the start of the WSOP main event heads-up match. In a very brief ceremony, Jeffrey Pollack recognized Erick Lindgren for winning his first World Series bracelet this year, which he [...]

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WSOPeople: Michael Buffer

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

The famed ringside announcer did the “shuffle up and deal” at the start of today’s heads-up. It was pretty entertaining stuff, as you could tell that Jack Effel (who introduced him) has been practicing emulating him … and also amusing the way Buffer treated chips as if they were body mass.

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More Dealer Props (but Different)

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

Pauly and I have some side-action … on which dealer is going to deal the final hand. I’ve got homegirl Linda Tran, of course (who goes on in the third down) and Lou the old white guy. He’s got Jena Phillips (2008 WSOP Dealer of the Year, who’s on now, in the first level), and Anthony [...]

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Penn & Teller Packed, November Nine a Success with FansLooks Like Cali Jen Will Be Having Her Words for Dinner

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

I wasn’t the biggest supporter of the WSOP delayed final table. I had many reasons to be against it, but in the end, I assumed it wouldn’t be popular with the fans. I was about as right-on there as I have been with most of my prop bets. The Penn & Teller Theater is packed tonight. [...]

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Tao of Pokerati: Deal or No Deal?

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

When the security guys came out with the money in silvery aluminum briefcases — 9 million semi-real American dollars — a few of us in media row joked about telling the story that the guys left at the final table had decided to chop up the remaining prize pool and play for it Deal or [...]

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Is It Better to Start Early in the WSOP Main Event?

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

Before things got underway here ate the final table, I was listening to an old podcast appearance I did with Andrew Feldman on ESPN’s The Poker Edge. We were talking about the action at the end of Day 2B, and discussing what kinda impact a weird blip in scheduling might have in outcome: There was [...]

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RE: UIGEA, Take 2!?! (2)The giant sucking sound of jobs going overseas?

Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008

As per the PPA and Al D’amato’s request, I made my call to the Feds to weigh in on tonight’s planned attempts to strengthen the UIGEA and extend its reach. The call kinda reminded me of calling PartyPoker Customer Service back in the day, with less of an Indian accent, of course … I can [...]

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Tao of Pokerati: Ivan Moneymaker?

Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008

Either that or Peter Hellmuth. As we wind down the day yesterday and look forward to tonight’s action, that’s what’s at stake — either we’ll have a new youngest main event champion ever, or the Ruskies will have a new national hero. Meanwhile, Dan gets his facts wrong, but does Pauly even care when he [...]

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Tao of Pokerati: The Novembrists

Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008

Ylon Schwartz check-raises with nothing into the nuts of Peter Eastgate, and Pauly and I begin the countdown and begin speculating on what two Eurokids (and maybe even Dennis Phillips) will mean for poker/PokerStars … and where poker is in Europe these days. But are Russians dead money or just scary? Maybe a little bit [...]

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