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 [...]

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Pokerati | Texas Hold'em Blog | Semi-live and Unofficial at the WSOP - 2008-08-21

Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Pokerdoodle: Water Poker

Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008

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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.

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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 [...]

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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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Winstar: Survivors Update

Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008

Here’s the survivor data thus far. I’m pretty surprised that I don’t recognize more names than I do. One name that we’ll all know and didn’t make this leader list is that of Mr. Scott Clements, who enters the Saturday play-down with $68,000. I’m not gonna be here long, but I’ll try to get a chipleader [...]

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Keep the Oklahoma Updates Coming, Please!

Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008

  Karridy knows how to represent. Despite negative reports about a too-fast blind structure and terrible dealers — from players who may or may not have been juiced with some residual Day 1-bustout tilt and therefore focusing on isolated incidents inherent to putting on any event that’s bigger than any other you’ve put on before — I [...]

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Currently Listening to …

Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008

[Actually I started writing this post last night, and somewhere along the way fell asleep ... I know, funny ... but I swear that's not a review of the episode. It was a lovely serenade, and gave me funky dreams about playing pot-limit Omaha in Budapest until the turtle came in and put a stop [...]

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Pokerdoodle: HORSE

Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008

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