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RE: What Poker can Learn from the Olympics

Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2008

As mentioned below, I’m currently watching Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh dominate the Japanese in women’s beach volleyball (poker-playing b-baller Jason Kidd is also watching the game, albeit from the stands, not on TV — as the NBA players are apparently making a concerted effort to be part of the Olympic experience) and there’s all [...]

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How Many Olympians Have Played in the WSOP? (Six and counting …)

Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008

In comparing the Olympics to the World Series of Poker, I didn’t plan to write about this, but Justin Shronk asks: “Have any Olympians ever played in the WSOP?” I stayed awake about an hour last night doing some research (discovering three Olympian/WSOP competitors), and did some follow-up research today after Kevin Mathers added Charles [...]

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Excalibur Poker Room Rids Itself of People

Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008

Las Vegas Vegas let us know this week that the poker room at the Excalibur will be folding its hand but buying in to a new game. The room will close on August 18th and send all of its dealers searching for work elsewhere, and it will reopen on August 21st with nothing but automated [...]

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RE: Hard Rock “Poker Lounge” Getting Ready to Open

Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008

After much talk and some anticipation, Dan notes that the Hard Rock poker room will open sometime in August. Evidently, poker pro Joe Awada got a sneak peak at the room and wrote an article about it for Gaming Today. 1. Who knew that Joe Awada wrote articles? 2. Decent stuff, but he could use an editor. The [...]

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What Poker Can Learn From the Olympics

Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2008

In case your Friday night included something more interesting than watching TV (mine didn’t), I’m here to tell you that the summer Olympics “started” with the Opening Ceremonies tonight. Actually, the ceremonies took place about half a day ago in Beijing, but NBC is presenting them in a “plausibly live” format during prime time. Hmmm [...]

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Barometric Poker — New Poll

Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2008

The readers have spoken … and 42 percent of you are so damn principled that you wouldn’t even consider accepting tournament buy-ins from Ultimate Bet or Absolute, while 22 percent have a more mercenary attitude and/or have forgiven UB/AP. 18 percent of us aren’t sure, 12 percent have become so cynical that what’s the point [...]

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Sam Simon Wins “All In For CP” Charity Tournament in L.A.Yes, Simon Donated Winnings Back to Charity

Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2008

This one will make Dan smile. The first annual “All In for CP” charity poker tournament was held at Hollywood Park Casino in L.A. this past Sunday and is being hailed as a total success. More than $44,000 was raised for Jacob Zalewski’s One Step Closer Foundation, which helps ease the lives of those afflicted with [...]

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RE: Dallas’ Biggest Little Game More on North Texas poker robbery (not to be confused with South Texas poker raid)

Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008

Can someone give me confirmation that this game is done, as in out of commission? I gotta think it has to be with the TV cameras and everything on it. But you know … we have standards here, and don’t want to name it and/or give out specifics about the general vicinity until we know [...]

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RE: More on South Texas Poker Raid (4)

Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008

Here’s the story from the McAllen Monitor about the assistant principal who got busted running weekly 5-table tourneys in his house. (Thanks, Carlos, for the link!) Man, naturally I’d be inclined to defend the likes of Jose Luis Esquivel like all get out … but really, the ridiculous neighborhood parking situation, and the two small [...]

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My Poker Gun-dar Is Buzzing Confirmed: Dallas’ biggest little game gets capped

Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008

Was there a poker robbery in Dallas last night — or perhaps talk around some tables about an old one? Not trying to start anything, rumor or otherwise … I just happened to notice a few visitors coming to us via Google searches overnight for “dallas poker robbery”. Not to give my secrets away, but [...]

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Vegas Casino Running California Satellites? What happens in Vegas leaves Vegas via the Silverton

Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008

Seems a little strange … but hey, maybe not so much. The Silverton Casino poker room (the one that tried to draw ladies with the all-pink tourney) is running Satellites to the California State Poker Championship: CALIFORNIA STATE POKER CHAMPIONSHIP *just added* Now through August 31, Silverton Casino Lodge offers Discovery Club members the chance to win [...]

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Just Causing Trouble for Funsies WSOP final table patch deals bring about a new kind of ringer

Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008

A few weeks back, a bunch of us got a press release from PokerStars boasting that six of The November Nine were Team PokerStars players. Now don’t get me wrong — I’ve got lots of friends at PokerStars and generally like what they do. But c’mon, who ya tryin’ to fool? Those guys aren’t really [...]

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Hard Rock “Poker Lounge” Getting Ready to Open

Date: Wed, Aug 6, 2008

As happens with so many openings in this town (and LA and NYC, presumably) … the unveiling of the Hard Rock’s new poker room has been delayed (um, like four years late?) and delayed … but we could tell they were moving forward with things — whether it was the dealer auditions being held in [...]

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Justin Bonomo = Gen Y’s Scott Fischman?

Date: Wed, Aug 6, 2008

I’m just askin’ … watchin’ a little WSOP, and after an hour-and-a-half of ZeeJustin, I see a dude who’s good — really good — and possibly due for an ass-kicking. UPDATE: Erick Lindgren says Bonomo is “the future of poker.”

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