It’s always interesting when we reach the final stage before the end of the main event to see who will rise to the top. Of course, this game isn’t all skill, but in this spot real tournament experience is key. It makes you less likely to crack under pressure and more apt to make the [...]
Well, that sure didn’t last. Pokerati’s only just-like-family player in the main event has been eliminated. After losing momentum throughout the day, Tiffany Michelle’s last hand and last stand went down as reported by PokerNews: Dennis Phillips raised to 500,000 from UTG, Peter Eastgate called and Tiffany Michelle called from the big blind. The flop was . [...]
17 players left, players return from break at the 60/120/20k level: Chip leader - Joe Bishop - 16.3m Tiffany Michelle - 4.42m Eliminations: 18th Jason Reisenberg 19th Albert Kim 20th Brandon Cantu 21st Paul Snead 22nd Judet Toni Cristian 23rd Tim Loecke 5:10pm Update: Tiffany Michelle out in 17th place. The table draw with two tables left: ESPN Featured Table Seat 1: Nicholas Sliwinski Seat 2: (empty) Seat 3: Tiffany Michelle Seat 4: [...]
Supposedly our favorite Dallas homey still alive in the main event … his dad was the air traffic controller at DFW airport that figured out bad shit was going down on September 11th. Go Dallas Poker / America!
Not long after I wrote about the finalists in the main event who might be closer to Pokerati than our own families - call that the blurry misconception of the WSOP long haul - one of our top two left the building. The Six Degrees of Pokerati will have to start making shit up expand [...]
23 players left, returning to 50/100/10k level Eliminations: Aaron Gordon - 24th Niklas Flisberg - 25th Phi Nguyen - 26th Michael Carroll 27th Chip leader - Dennis Phillips - 14.4m Tiffany Michelle - 5.1m (still sporting UB gear, athough Pauly says a deal with PokerStars had been made, then spurned)
Pokerati has no horses in the race, but in a remote way, we do. As a matter of fact, Pokerati is connected to all of the remaining 27 players in the 2008 WSOP main event. We like to call it Six Degrees of Pokerati. Familiar with the Six Degrees of Separation? Or more importantly, the Six [...]