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Pre-Festivities FestivitiesExcitement Turns to Restlessness

Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2008

The hallways surrounding the Penn & Teller Theater at the Riohave been bustling since just after 8am this morning. From media anxious to find their seats and set up for a long day to poker fans, including multitudes of friends and family members of the November Nine, it was a gratifying site for all of [...]

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Tao of Pokerati: The WSOP Final Table

Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2008

Pauly and I are back … watching the biggest sit-n-go in the history of poker, very live-ish from the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio. As fans were filing in, chips were being unbagged, and 4 months of semi-hyped anticipation was getting underway, we are nice guys looking to share our observations with you. Book [...]

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Quick Notes about the WSOP Final Table / $32 Million Sit-n-Go

Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2008

So action is about to get underway. Players are unbagging their chips now. A few thoughts on what we are seeing/hearing: Dennis Phillips has close to 200 fans — all of them are wearing the same shirt he is, with the same patch logos. He and all his friends are die-hard Ford supporters (as per their [...]

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(Way) Outside the WSOP - 11/9 - Main Event Final Table, Day 1

Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2008

The day that the poker community has been waiting for has finally arrived, as the November Nine reunite to determine this year’s “World Champion”. Has the 100+ day delay been a success? ESPN says ratings are the highest they’ve been in two years, but that was when Hellmuth and Matusow were heavily featured in the [...]

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Sneak Peak: WSOP Coverage Plans

Date: Sat, Nov 8, 2008

California Jen arrived in town yesterday, and we got together to discuss what kind of coverage of the WSOP main event final table we plan to entertain ourselves doing bring you. Here’s what we came up with: click to enlarge Recognize anyone?

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Quick Quiz: How Many November Nine Names Do You Know?

Date: Sat, Nov 8, 2008

My bet is Sarah Palin knows 0. Barack Obama … less clear — he plays poker, sure, but he’s been pretty busy since July, so I think the good money for him would also be 0 … maybe 1 accidentally, so let’s set the over/under for him at 1/2. (I’ll take the under.) How many do [...]

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New Poll: Best Pro Blog

Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008

Check it out, in case you’re going through polling withdrawal … you can vote again and this time you don’t even need to wait in line. Just about every pro at some time or another starts a “blog”. They put up a few posts, and before too long realize that writing regularly is hard … or [...]

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Perspectives Weekly: Breaking News from Microgaming and Bodog

Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008

From APCW.org: As many of you have probably noticed by now, Microgaming casinos are dropping US Players quickly in a mass exodus from the US Market! Plus, a few weeks ago we warned you about “big trouble” coming for Bodog. Guess what? It arrived this week! Not only that, but we finally make the biggest announcement in [...]

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Online Bingo

Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008

Sometimes you come home from work and just want to relax – but not in a totally passive way, like the telly would offer you. Many people like to play games of luck in an online casino. If you, however, think that casinos are not the place where you should hang around and that playing [...]

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Bad Beat Play of the Day WheneverThird-nuts is no good

Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008

First off, let me tiltily say I’m a little pissed at Tom, who paid our election bet via PokerStars. Granted, I told him that would be fine … after all, Tom is different from most people in the poker biz, in that he likes to pay off his debts as soon as possible … but [...]

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White House Home Game

Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2008

Check out Anthony Holden’s piece in The Daily Beast: Poker Returns to the White House. He’s not speaking just metaphorically when he talks of the potential return of a home game to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (That musta been why I shed a tear Tuesday night …) (Thanks, Mike, for the link!)

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WPT and Full Tilt Poker Announce TV Sponsorship Deal

Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2008

After some speculation amongst poker insiders between Dan and Pauly, it seems that the bigwigs at the World Poker Tour and Full Tilt Poker were talking….just not about a buy-out. The agreement has been signed and announced to give FullTiltPoker.net the title of “exclusive educational poker sponsor” for all WPT Season 7 episodes to air [...]

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Tao of Benjorati 4/4

Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2008

5 am: The prop-betting evolves … as Pauly discovers (much to Benjo’s dismay) the Hungarian offshoot of lime tossing: trying to hit bums with apple cores. The ethically questionable game of skill comes up as Pauly is on prop-bet tilt after losing a scaled down apple bet. From there, the good doctor and his Euro-conscience [...]

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Excapsa Pays Tokwiro, UB Player Refunds CompleteGrand Total of Transactions = $15 Million

Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008

A press release was just received from Tokwiro Enterprises, noting that a settlement was reached between Excapsa Software (previous owner of UltimateBet) and Tokwiro Enterprises (current owner of UB) for $15 million. The amount is the same as what was still owed to players who were cheated in the UB scandal, as determined by the [...]

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