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WSoP: Main Event Winner
0 Comments Published by Textbook 1 year, 11 months ago in In the News, Professionals, TournamentsI’ll put the info after the jump in case anyone doesn’t want a spoiler…
Gold’s Poker Face Wins Him $12 Million
When Jamie Gold bluffed, his opponents folded. When he had the best hand, they threw in all their chips. With a run of cards, a huge chip stack and an uncanny knack for reading other […]
$50k H.O.R.S.E. (and Ocean’s 13)
0 Comments Published by Textbook 1 year, 11 months ago in Professionals, Celebrities, TournamentsPoker has a new world champion — This article by Daniel Negreanu raises a great point:
The buy-in for the main event has been $10,000 for more than 30 years. It’s time for a change. $10,000 just isn’t what it used to be! After all, there are $10,000 buy-in tournaments taking place around the globe on […]
Problems I Wish I Had #247
0 Comments Published by Textbook 2 years, 6 months ago in On the Tube, Professionals, TournamentsIs backing another player ethical?
The issues are numerous. Perhaps the biggest and most obvious is backers playing in the same events as players they have staked, and maybe even at the same table, could lead to suspicions of soft playing and collusion.
“I would take a lie-detector test,’’ says Lindgren, who plays in many of […]
In a curious development, the Poker Superstars Invitational, the bizarrely structured and infinitely long big-name-only poker tourney that has been a mainstay on Fox Sports for a while now, popped up on NBC this afternoon opposite the NFL draft.
Despite the network weirdness, it was a decent show, with madman Gus Hansen taking out the entire […]
Tony G Must Die
0 Comments Published by Kin-Shay 3 years, 4 months ago in On the Tube, ProfessionalsI am catching up on the Grand Prix de Paris WPT. I must say the heads up action is intense, I can’t remember last time I was freaking out about what card was coming up in so many hands. I really loathe Tony G. The aussie bitch will not shut his mouth. It goes beyond […]
Tilt a “disgrace” and Shaq in the WSOP
0 Comments Published by Textbook 3 years, 4 months ago in In the News, On the Tube, Professionals, CelebritiesJust a couple quick tidbits:
ESPN’s “Tilt” seems to be garnering a response much like its predecessor, “Playmakers”, which got the NFL’s a whole lotta people’s panties all in a bunch.
Poker Updates, a monthly online streaming television program covering events and issues current to the world of poker, broadcast a segment which showed professional poker players’ […]
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