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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 […]
You know, there’s a little poker tournament going on in Vegas right now.
If you want the semi-real time action, I suggest you visit Pauly at Tao of Poker. He’s got great updates on the action and some fun photos as well.
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 […]
Dating the Unabomber does help
1 Comment Published by Textbook 2 years, 10 months ago in In the News, Celebrities, TournamentsJennifer Tilly Wins Poker Tournament
Tilly’s victory at the World Poker Tour Ladies Night III at the Bicycle Casino on Thursday makes her the first woman to win that title and the World Series’ Ladies World Poker Championship held in June.
I wonder if Phil Laak is looking for a boyfriend…
Sorry Chuckie, the girl has things to do.
1 Comment Published by Textbook 3 years ago in In the News, Celebrities, TournamentsJennifer Tilly loves poker. Even more than acting, it seems.
Folding her hand in Hollywood
Tilly, a 1994 Oscar nominee for Bullets Over Broadway, is so serious about poker that she recently bought a unit in the Cosmopolitan, a high-rise condo on the Las Vegas Strip to be built next to the Bellagio Hotel & Casino.
“I’d rather […]
Life of Riley
3 Comments Published by Textbook 3 years, 1 month ago in Poker Blogs, Celebrities, TournamentsLooks like Wil Wheaton is getting a free ride in the WSoP main event as a member of Team PokerStars.
Wow.
I’d like to gripe about the “lucky son-of-a”, but I don’t really mind it when things go Wil’s way.
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