Money Day at the River: (Partial) Starting Line-up
Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008
Today’s the final day of the $3 million River tourney in the Winstar Territories. The $2,000+100 NLH event started six days ago with what would grow to more than 1,400 entries. A few less than 150 made it into the money and play today for the big money. Here are about 90 of the starters, [...]
The Best Rest of Tao of Pokerati
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
The 2008 World Series has come and gone and will most likely, in a little less than three months, will come again. In the meantime, while cleaning out the computer(s) we’ve come across these “lost” episodes … recorded in the tail days of the main event. But this is everything … there’s no more, OK? [...]
Winstar: K-train goes off the rails
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
…Actually, I’m just the opposite. I went out middle, at level 6. Three PP’s (55,77,99,QQ). I hit one flop, never saw a turn all day, much less a river. Never played a loser through… until about 10 minutes ago. Never been so card dead. *cry,bitch,moan,walk* Shawn Rice is nursing a short stack of about 7k, as [...]
Just Curious … What’s Oklahoma Think of Scotty Nguyen These Days?
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
A couple hot poker topics this week have been, of course, WinStar, and Scotty Nguyen’s less than stellar behavior and etiquette in the $50k WSOP HORSE event, as seen on ESPN. Pauly (who actually watched this final table live) assures me a lot of this persona came in the editing — yeah, he was drunk [...]
RE: New Hard Rock Poker Room (2)
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
OK, I think I got at least half of this thing figured out … here are the rest of the pics, taken by yours truly. I think the bar area is pretty cool.
RE: New Hard Rock Poker Room
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
Oops, I missed all the fun at the soft opening of the Hard Rock Poker Lounge yesterday. Supposedly it was wild fun with lots of great food to go with one sit-n-go after another. But the emptiness did give me a chance to take some better photos of the inside, and the cleaning crew didn’t [...]
It’s Over Johnny: ChanPoker is Closed for Business
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
Did anyone ever play at the site? ChanPoker did launch in the summer of 2006 with the inclusion of U.S. customers, but months later it went strictly overseas due to the passage of the UIGEA. Well, despite its cool Chinese lettering as the logo, it has closed up shop officially today. At least Johnny still [...]
Winstar: Thursday, Last Day 1
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
According to Craig’s list, the Winstar Thrusday chips are a hot property, as people are asking $3,000-$5,000 for the sold-out $2,100 seats. I’m curious as to how many of those folks are having any luck. Comments? Anybody? Personally, I’m not seeing any deals working and am thinking that there will be a lot of late [...]
Winstar: TBR Live
Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008
While I hate to push down Dan’s post on the HardRock, here’s some video goodness from the Pokerati people who still give a damn about Texas Oklahoma.
Sneak Preview of the New Hard Rock Poker Room
Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008
The Hard Rock Poker Lounge is almost ready to serve you. The PR people at Hard Rock are trying to keep a tight lid on the unveiling of their new “Poker Lounge”, which opens to the public tomorrow — they don’t want any bad pictures getting out that fail to capture the venue in all its [...]
Battle Not-So-Royale over Control/Role of the WPA
Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008
Very disappointing … I was hoping for a knockdown, claws-out blood brawl between Wendeen Eolis and Jesse Jones as the two try to position themselves to maintain and wield influence on the future of poker … but alas, Wendeen’s straight-from-the-horse’s mouth recount of the rise and stumble of the WPA takes a relatively sober [...]
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