Nov
8
8
#905 – Full Tilt Poker Welcomes the Newest Member of Team Full Tilt
Full Tilt Poker announced today that it invited Tom “durrrr” Dwan to join its inner circle of the site’s top professionals, Team Full Tilt.
Nov
8
8
#904 – WSOP Final Table Update #12 – Like Dominos; Steven Begleiter is Out in Sixth Place
At 12:50 AM, Steven Begleiter was all-in with QQ, opposed by Darvin Moon with the hand he must have tattooed on his palms, AQ. Ace on the river, and Steven, a class act who played excellent all day and all night, busted out in sixth place.
Sorry Begs, you deserved better than you got. On the heels of Phil’s bust out, everybody is pretty stunned.
Nov
8
8
#903 – WSOP Final Table #11 – Phil Ivey Busts in Seventh Place
Phil played flawless poker. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough. With just over 10 BB, on the first hand after the break, at 12:15 AM, he got it all-in against Darvin Moon with A-K v. Moon’s A-Q.
… and a queen came in the door.
Nearly everybody here is anxious to players to start busting but this was an exception.
No joy in Mudville. But thank you Phil. You gave us one helluva show.
Steve Begleiter is now Full Tilt’s only representative at the final table.
Nov
8
8
#902 – WSOP Final Table #10 – Shauna Thinks She Discovered How to Turn Water to Gold
It’s 12:15 AM. We’re still seven-handed with an hour to go in the 300k-600k/75k level, and we’re coming off a 20 minute break. Just as we were about to restart, Shauna walked by and wordlessly slipped by our digital camera, like the theme music for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE should be playing in the background. The woman on the right is Official Final Table “Hostess” Lacey Jones. The woman on the left? All I know I what it says on the sash.
Nov
8
8
#901 – WSOP Final Table Update #9 – The Grind
This has been a pretty remarkable day. Play started at 1 PM and, including breaks, they’ve been at it 10:20 as I write these words. Only two players have busted and, frankly, things could have been not much different and those two players would still be in. We are seven-handed and have been for a long time. It’s getting late, people are getting tire, the forward momentum seems to have stalled.
What’s this like? What does it mean?
Nov
8
8
#900 – WSOP Main Event #8 – Back From the Dinner Break
Play restarted at 9 PM. These were the chip counts on the overhead monitor:
Nov
7
7
Dinner Break – almost
It’s 6:55 PM. We’re about ten minutes from a two-hour dinner break. Barring something titanic happening in the next ten minutes, I’ll continue writing through dinner and make some posts then or after action recommences at 9 PM PDT.
Nov
7
7
#898 – WSOP Final Table Update #6 – BEGS is Magic
Shauna took this picture of Steven Begleiter’s crew after Steve won the best, boldest … baddest pot of the day:
Nov
7
7
#897 – WSOP Final Table Update #5 – Caprice, 2009
James Akenhead busted in ninth place at 4:40 PM. He moved all-in with pocket threes and was called by Kevin Schaffel with pocket nines.
I don’t know James but I’m increasingly impressed that he is becoming one of the world’s elite tournament poker players. Just 26, he has already cashed in more than two dozen tournaments. Unfortunately, he is emerging as a tragic figure, known for where he has fallen just short.
