February 28th, 2008
from Jereme Dean:
You can now watch Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak’s TV show I BET YOU online now. It basically entails them running around making prop bets with one another over stuff like ‘can you get that guy to give you his cowboy hat’ or other random stuff. It’s pretty entertaining, if you have nothing […]
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February 28th, 2008
If you never saw this hand between Patrick Antonious and Jamie Gold on High Stakes Poker, it’s a wild one. Supposedly the highest hand they’ve had on there (though I think there may have been another after it with Doyle that passed it), but this one’s worth $750,000 grand and contains some nastiness.
Antonious plays this […]
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February 27th, 2008
Does anybody play Hold Em on their cell phone?
Like when you’re bored waiting for the dentist or for their girlfriend to finish shopping?
I’ve never done it, but supposedly it’s getting popular. I don’t know if I have the nerves for it. I hate cell phones.
Got a press release in the mail about it today, though. […]
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February 26th, 2008
American Tim Vance Set Final Table Marathon Record and Takes Home Championship
Grabs $1.2 Million with Victory at the Denmark Open in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark – February 25, 2008 – Tim Vance, a 46-year-old contractor from Millstadt, IL, took home $1.2 million after winning the European Poker Tour (EPT) Scandinavian Open at the Casino Copenhagen in Denmark. […]
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February 25th, 2008
From cardplayer.com news:
“A Florida man was charged with three counts of first degree murder in the deaths of three men last weekend. According to the Putnam County Sheriffs Office, after believing that he had been cheated during a private poker game, Duane Demaris Crittenden II, 28, apparently returned to the scene on Saturday morning and […]
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February 22nd, 2008
Gus Hansen’s blog is off to a pretty good start: he has a new post up now that contains a couple of scenarios where he discusses the thinking behind firing with nothing in a couple of specific hands, which is interesting to kind of get behind his mind on the subject.
Of course the premise is, […]
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February 21st, 2008
Doyle Brunson, in a stroke of showing that old folks really can learn new new fangled technologies, now has a blog for CardPlayer magazine.
Right off the bat I can tell it’s better than most pro players’ blogs, because he starts each one off with one of his “Doyle-isms,” which consist of old-timer Texan bits of […]
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February 21st, 2008
Bought a new MacBook Pro yesterday. First time in my life I’ve had wireless laptop (I’ve always for some reason stuck with the desktop). I believe the return to online poker is imminent. I just downloaded the Full Tilt application and I’m laying in bed on my computer (a novel experience for me) and I […]
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February 20th, 2008
The WPT Broadcast schedule has just been revised from the regular 20-24 episodes, down to 16, an unfortunate happening, but the way it is right now:
Bellagio Cup IV — Bellagio, Las Vegas — July 11- 17
Legends of Poker — The Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles — Aug. 23-28
Borgata Poker Open — Borgata, Atlantic City — Sept. […]
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February 19th, 2008
An update sent directly from PokerStars:
NBC will start filming its National Heads-Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on February 28th
PokerStars.net is the only poker Web site running a qualifying tournament from now until Feb. 22, with the winner heading to Vegas on PokerStars’ table to joust with the likes of the world’s […]
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