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ESPN.com Inside Deal with Kevin Schaffel

Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 Internet

Besides Kevin Schaffel, Mike Sexton discusses his being inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, the latest poker news, previews of tonight’s WSOP episodes (the first half of day 8 coverage) and Phil Ivey’s ESPN: The Magazine cover appearance. Related Posts ESPN.com Inside Deal w/ Joe Cada (2) PokerStars sponsoring High Stakes Poker/Dennis Phillips invited to play [...]

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Kara Scott to replace AJ Benza on High Stakes Poker?

Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 Internet

In an interview Sunday on Mediocre Poker Radio from WJFK in Washington DC, AJ Benza said Kara Scott will be his replacement when taping resumes in November. Kara is best known in the US from her cashes in the past two World Series of Poker Main Events, gaining the affection of Norman Chad in [...]

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Deeb Seeks Record-Tying WPT Win Today

Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 Internet

Short jokes aside, “the little corporal” of poker is on a Napoleonic quest to dominate the poker world … or at least the WPT. The WPT Festa al Lago final table gets underway this afternoon/eve (4pm PT). After all the early tourney hubbub about super-late registrations and related blind structures, the final table looks not unlike [...]

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Heidelberg Heist, Harrisburg Holdup The fight(s) for Pennsylvania poker room profits

Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 Internet

A presumably friendly game outside of Pittsburgh got robbed last week … From the Associated Press: Police Chief Vernon Barkley says the game was held at the Heidelberg volunteer fire hall and was breaking up about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. That’s when the promoter, 53-year-old Sara Lazzaro, was hit on the head and accosted by three armed [...]

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PPA Partners with National Horse and Dog Racing Associations In effort to delay Dec. 1 UIGEA enforcement deadline

Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 Internet

People may not realize this … because we have gotten along just fine even with the UIGEA for more than three years now … but December 1st is something of a D-Day for online poker. If no bill or procedural measure undoes the status quo in the next six weeks … well it’s not clear [...]

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PokerStars sponsoring High Stakes Poker/Dennis Phillips invited to play

Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 Internet

On Dennis Phillips’ radio show on Tuesday, he broke the news that he was one of the first players invited to play on season 6 of High Stakes Poker. It was also revealed that PokerStars will be sponsoring the show, which could escalate the Vanessa Rousso co-hosting High Stakes Poker rumors At Fullcontactpoker.com, Daniel [...]

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Clonie Gowen Makes a Final Table

Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 Internet

For those out there looking for their Clonie Gowen fix, you can head down to the Gold Strike Casino in Robinsonville, MS and catch the final table of the $5,000 Main Event of their World Poker Open. Clonie goes into the final table as the chip leader and the $183,224 first prize available. [...]

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Ebay Auctions Update

Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 Internet

The two auctions on Ebay for sponsorship concluded late Saturday, and the results could best be described as mixed. Ylon Schwartz’s second Ebay auction concluded again with zero bids. Dennis Phillips’ auction concluded with a winning bid of $19,350. The winner though, “schindlerlawfirm”, is also the person to contact for Dennis on [...]

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RE: Brian Townsend Admits Multiaccounting (2)

Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Internet

Just watched this week’s episode of the WSOP … and saw Phil Laak in the Old Man disguise for the first time. Couldn’t help but think, as pointed out by a commenter, how is this any different than someone’s having two different accounts online? He gave an interview in July to CardPlayer* where he talks about [...]

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“It Feels Good to Run Good!” Or so I’ve been told …

Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 Internet

While Jen was slaving away covering the WCOOP on the PokerStarsBlog this weekend, I was extremely busy playing in a $1,000 freeroll on PokerStars (12 players max). I’m sure it won’t make her extra-happy to know that I overslept for this special-invite tourney and logged in with an M < 1. But that's what it [...]

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New Poll: Poker for President

Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 Internet

New poll up on the right … Inspired by Duplicate Poker’s, this one has nothing to do with poker, and yet everything to do with poker. Let’s see how Pokeratizens line up with all of America, percentage-wise, come November. Previous Poll Results

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RE: Attempted Robbery in Arlington

Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 Internet

Just to clarify for some who are writing in a bit confused … the room that got robbed/shot-up the other week was not the same place that got raided by Arlington police most recently … That raided place was the Longhorn Room — similar neighborhood, I believe, but not certain, as South Arlington isn’t exactly small. [...]

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(Way) Outside the WSOP - (Day 31)

Date: Sun, Jun 29, 2008 Internet

Finishing the action from last night, with the Sunday preview that’s not really a preview: The HORSE final table is now set for 3pm to be under the really hot lights of the ESPN cameras. Here’s how this stacked lineup will be seated at that table: Seat 1: Matt Glantz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — 1,445,000 Seat 2: Huck [...]

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(Way) Outside the WSOP - (Day 21 Evening Update)

Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 Internet

What’s happening at the WSOP tonight: The $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/rebuys event just concluded with a winner, and it’s Layne Flack who put on a dominant performance at the final table, taking an overwhelming chip lead that no one would be able to catch him. Layne wins his 6th WSOP bracelet, putting him [...]

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