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| Kaelaine Minton -- Poker Pages (pokerpages.com) |
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| Event 42 end of day 2 |
| Wednesday, 27th of June 2007 12:41 AM
(Kaelaine Minton reporting for PokerPages.com)
Play is set to resume at 2pm Wednesday. Here are the final table players with their seats ... |
| Event 42 Day 2 |
| Tuesday, 26th of June 2007 11:40 PM
(Kaelaine Minton reporting for PokerPages.com)
13 players remain and they will continue play tonight until down to nine players and those n... |
| HORSE Event 39 Day 3 |
| Tuesday, 26th of June 2007 10:57 PM
(Kaelaine Minton reporting for PokerPages.com)
Play is set to resume at 2pm Wednesday when they will play down to the final table. Here are... |
| HORSE Event 39 Day 3 |
| Tuesday, 26th of June 2007 10:43 PM
(Kaelaine Minton reporting for PokerPages.com)
In the Stud Hi round, with 20k/40k limits, Rob Hollink got his last chips in against Mark Gr... |
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| Ryan Lucchesi -- Card Player |
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| Jerry Yang Wins the 2007 WSOP Main Event |
| Members of The Eccentric’s Club from made the first
international inroads into the World
Series of Poker in the early 1980’s. If any of those original members, who
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| Alex Kravchenko Busted |
| Alex Kravchenko Eliminated in Fourth Place ($1,852,721)
A turning point hand at the final table just ocurred when Alex
Kravchenko moved all in preflop and Raymond Rahme made th... |
| Main Event Final Table - Hour Twelve |
| Raymond Rahme Doubles
Up
Alex Kravchenko bet $1,500,000 and Jerry Yang raised to $6
million. PokerStars online qualifier,
Raymond Rahme then moved all in. Rahme flipped over A ... |
| Playing With Pain |
| Many people from many different walks of life will come to the World Series of Poker today to play poker. None of them will have a harder time getting to the
home for a few days i... |
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| Matt Showell -- PokerListings.com |
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| Main Event Day 6: Pt. VII |
| Sitting in the audience of the ESPN feature table, reportedly
sweating Ray Henson, is a large group of big name pros including Greg
"FBT" Mueller, Eric and Michael Mizrachi, Shaw... |
| Main Event Day 6: Pt. VI |
| Bryan Busted (27th)
Jeff Bryan ihas found himself on
the way to the rail and is the first to receive the new payout of
$333,490, making him the highest paid player so far in thi... |
| Main Event Day 6: Pt. V |
| Kluber Clubbed (29th)
Scott Freeman opened the pot to
$195,000 and got a call from Ron Kluber in the small blind. The flop
came #As-#Js-#8d and both players checked. The turn wa... |
| Main Event Day 6: Pt. IV |
| Hilm Takes a Hit, Twice
Philip Hilm's stack has taken a bit of a hit after Hilm
released his hand during a confrontation with Lee Watkinson. On a flop
of #Qh-#5h-#2h Hilm chec... |
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| Michael Cheser -- Poker Pages (pokerpages.com) |
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| Main Event - Day 5 |
| Cards went into the air at 12:12pm. The tournament director announced today's schedule: they will play either five levels or until 27 players remain, whichever comes first. Howev... |
| Main Event - Day 4 |
| On a flop of T 7 8, the player in Seat 1 bet out and Bill Edler raised. When his opponent moved all-in for 374K, Edler called and showed K T. Once his opponent turned over J 9, Edl... |
| Main Event - Day 3 |
| Hand-for-hand action lasted just under two hours to complete. In that time, it took fifteen hands to eliminate 13 players. To give you an idea as to what a grind this money bubble ... |
| Main Event - Day 2B |
| Cards went into the air at 12:07pm with considerably less fanfare than the Day 1 sessions. No Jeffrey Pollack, no special guest introuductions, no celebrity or VIP telling them to ... |
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| Bill Seibert -- CardRunners |
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| Lee Childs out in 7th for 705k |
| Jerry Yang was raising almost every hand preflop. Effectively running over the table with his massive 55 million stack. Lee Childs raised with K,J off and was raised all in by Jerr... |
| Two big hands and no direct feed |
| So far Harrahs hasn't piped in the feed into the media press room as promised. Information has been limited. Jerry Yang has become the dominant chip leader by being very aggressive... |
| 4:25 am update Day 6 |
| Seats watching the ESPN feature table were at such a premium that if I left, I wouldn't get back in so my apologies for not more updates. The news is good though as far as Lee Chil... |
| 1:30 am update Day 6 |
| Seats watching the ESPN feature table were at such a premium that if I left, I wouldn't get back in so my apologies for not more updates. The news is good though as far as Lee Chil... |
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| Courtney Harrington -- PocketFivesLive.com |
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| Yang Closes The Deal |
| Jerry Yang came out of the gates in quick fashion, first taking the chip lead and then in short order eliminating the player that started the day as the chip leader. His unusually... |
| All That, For A Race |
| After 6 full days of play, and many hours of play today at the final table, the fate of Alex Kravchenko's World Series of Poker Main Event came down to a race. Alex had A-K agains... |
| Change of Pace |
| The chip leader coming in burned through all his chips and was out of the tournament before the players had been in their seats long enough to warm them up, and the bustouts kept c... |
| Catching Up |
| The first few hours of final table play gave the impression that Jerry Yang was going to run away with the title and there was nothing anyone could do to slow him down. But as the... |
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| Michael Balan -- PocketFivesLive.com |
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| Bad Level for SCTrojans |
| Level 18 of the $10,000 WSOP main event hasn't been going Scott "SCTrojans" Freeman's way so far. For example instead of taking down a pot worth 700K when he held a set of twos o... |
| End of Day 3 |
| Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby is back in action. After being as low as 45K, Hamby chipped up to 98k when the following hand occured. Jeff "Mr.Rain" Banghart raised to 23K when the b... |
| Trying to Rebuild Their Chip Stacks |
| Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby (pictured right) sat down at his new table with 200K and dropped down to as low as 50K when his pocket tens on two separate occasions could not hold up. ... |
| Tension in the Air |
| As the number of remaining players in the $10,000 WSOP Main Event continue to fall and the prize money payouts get more lucrative, the great amount of tension that the players hol... |
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| David Lloyd -- www.gutshot.com |
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| WSOP Main Event FINAL |
| THE DAY OF RECKONING
Most of the talking has been done. There’s little left to say now. Like boxers prior to a big fight, or deep sea fisherman watching sharks drift by, the... |
| WSOP Main Event Day 6 |
| As any astute seven year old knows, the art of getting what you want comes from careful theatrics, patience, manipulation and cunning; all of the essential qualities it takes to su... |
| WSOP Main Event Day 5 |
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It’s a big day for the British in the land of the free. The press follow them, people stare and whisper as they pass, and the weight of a lot of money and expecta... |
| WSOP Main Event Day 4 |
| STILL ON THE MAP…
When the good people of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea awoke this morning they probably got on with their fishing village lives, working the coble boats still known ... |
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| Jonathan Wein -- PocketFivesLive.com |
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| SamEnNole Out |
| Players are finally on their half hour break after sitting in the Amazon Room for almost three hours. Brock "t soprano" Parker has chipped up nicely, from 160k to start the day t... |
| J.C. Tran Doubles Through JohnnyBax |
| Aditya "intervention" Agarwal (pictured left) chipped up nicely during the first hour, peaking at over 200k. However, he is back down to 162k after a very interesting hand.
Wit... |
| The Mystery of the Disappearing Chips |
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The tournament started a little late, and it was due to Steven
"MrTimCaum" O'Dwyer. O'Dwyer (pictured right) came to his seating
assignment only to find that someone had bee... |
| Mizzi Doubles Up |
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Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi (pictured left) sometimes forgets that he runs
well. Holding 7-6os, he got all-in against Courtney Harrington who
held pocket nines. Fortunately for ... |
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| Jeffrey Pollack -- Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. |
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| Bring on the November Nine! |
| I always find the last few days of the World Series of Poker Main Event to be bittersweet. On one hand, the drama and electricity in the tournament room are at their peak, with th... |
| Just a Typical Week at the WSOP ... |
| So, let's see some of what's been going on since my last post:
1. Monday morning Scotty “the Prince” Nguyen played like a king to become our $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. world ... |
| Hey Now, You're An All Star... |
| Another good week at the WSOP has been entered into the books and now on to an event that is very special to me: World Championship H.O.R.S.E.When joining Harrah's three years ago,... |
| "Hearts of Gold" |
| We're about a third of the way through the 2008 WSOP and what a tournament we've had so far!In fact, Gary Wise has dubbed this the "summer of love"!I'm not sure I'd go that far and... |
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| Seth Niesen -- Card Player |
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| Schreiber wins |
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The heads-up event is a completely different animal from other tournament at the World Series of Poker. It
is the ultimate battle of wits between players, a one-on-one showdown
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| Eli Wins |
| Eli Elezra Wins Event
#24 $3,000 Seven Card Stud High/Low Eight or Better
There is a laundry list of great players that have never won
a World Series of Poker bracelet, but
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| Hour6 |
| Don Baruch Moves On
Don Baruch has advanced to the final table
Negreanu Advances
Negreanu takes a stack of $5,000 chips and places them in the middle of the table. His oppone... |
| hour 5 |
| E-Dog Advances
Erick Lindgren calls his opponents all in with AJ. His opponent shows down K6 and the board comes 109847. Lindgren makes the straight and advances to tomorrows fi... |
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| Lance Bradley -- thepokerbiz.com |
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| Hellmuth chases 12th bracelet Tuesday |
| God help us all.
Phil Hellmuth made yet another final table late Monday night and will have a shot at getting his 12th World Series of Poker bracelet before either Doyle Brunson o... |
| Opie Taylor look-alike win Event #22 |
| We'd like to tell you that the year of the Internet player took another giant step forward today when Opie Taylor took down Event #22 ($5,000 No Limit Hold Em) but we've been unabl... |
| Erick Lindgren has a shot at bracelet #1 today |
| Erick Lindgren is widely considered to be one of the top poker tournament players in the world. His two World Poker Tour titles, combined with three other final table appearances, ... |
| Nearly 800 slain in Shootout at World Series of Poker |
| Okay, so maybe, just maybe that’s what certain people might consider “sensationalistic journalism”.
At ThePokerBiz.com we prefer to call it just plain ol’ ... |
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| Matthew Parvis -- Bluff Media |
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| Closing Time |
| So the June issue is just about out the door. It looks great. I'm not sure if its the impending WSOP, or what but lately I feel this sense of excitement when I think about the mag... |
| WPT Bracelet Ceremony and a few bets |
| Last night I attended the WPT's Bracelet Ceremony. The World Poker Tour honored it's 96 champions from the first six seasons of the tour with Tiffanys Bracelets. There was a nice... |
| Cash is Not the only Prize |
| For those of you unfamiliar, I'm the Editor-In-Chief of Bluff Magazine. I am hoping to blog here on a regular basis to give you all an insight on what its like working in the poke... |
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| Kurt Lester -- TexasHoldem.com |
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| Event #13 - Day 2 |
| Event #13 - $5000 Pot Limit Hold'Em
Day 2
June 9th, 2007
Bubble Time Almost 4:30pm PST
A few nobable
eliminations include Cliff Josephy and Kathy Leibert, and th... |
| Event #15 - Day 1 |
| WSOP Event #15 - $1500 NL Hold'Em - Day 1
Payouts and Entries Released 4:00pm PST
Today's
event drew in 2,628, which is the 2nd biggest field so far this year.
Th... |
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| Daniel Cox -- Gaming Review Online |
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| World Poker Tour Challenges World Series of Poker |
| Daniel Cox
Gaming Review Online
© June 20, 2007
Las Vegas - The World Poker Tour (WPT) and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) are going heads up in Las Vegas this yea... |
| The Long Short Goodbye |
| Daniel Cox
June 25, 2007
Gaming Review Online
Las Vegas – It took thirty years to make the dream come true and only an hour for a nightmare hand to end it. I had wanted... |
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