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#905 – Full Tilt Poker Welcomes the Newest Member of Team Full Tilt

mcraig — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:34:32 +0000

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. Good news, gang: Tom accepted! Tom will receive the standard Team Full Tilt Package: an avatar designed to make his noise and ears look MORE pointy, a key to the Full Tilt Mansion, [...]

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#905 – Full Tilt Poker Welcomes the Newest Member of Team Full Tilt

#904 – WSOP Final Table Update #12 – Like Dominos; Steven Begleiter is Out in Sixth Place

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:04:40 +0000

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 [...]

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#904 – WSOP Final Table Update #12 – Like Dominos; Steven Begleiter is Out in Sixth Place

#903 – WSOP Final Table #11 – Phil Ivey Busts in Seventh Place

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:22:29 +0000

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 [...]

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#903 – WSOP Final Table #11 – Phil Ivey Busts in Seventh Place

#902 – WSOP Final Table #10 – Shauna Thinks She Discovered How to Turn Water to Gold

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:18:39 +0000

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 [...]

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#902 – WSOP Final Table #10 – Shauna Thinks She Discovered How to Turn Water to Gold

#901 – WSOP Final Table Update #9 – The Grind

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:39:22 +0000

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 [...]

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#901 – WSOP Final Table Update #9 – The Grind

#900 – WSOP Main Event #8 – Back From the Dinner Break

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:52:07 +0000

Play restarted at 9 PM. These were the chip counts on the overhead monitor: Eric Buchman – 54.725m – Buchman has been on top of it all day, and has gotten some timely luck. He’s an extremely accomplished young tournament player so I don’t think he’s out of his element. But now he’s got the target [...]

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#900 – WSOP Main Event #8 – Back From the Dinner Break

Dinner Break – almost

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:53:25 +0000

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. Post from: Poker Blog from Full Tilt Poker by Michael CraigDinner Break – almost

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Dinner Break – almost

#899 – WSOP Final Table Update #7 – DON’T LOOK at this Picture

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:29:57 +0000

Phil Ivey has been waiting, waiting, waiting …. It seems like he’s been waiting all day. While the other players are shoveling wheelbarrows full of chips around the table, he has remained a bystander. So, for that matter, has Jeff Shulman. For the second time today, they stared eye to eye and and Jeff blinked. After [...]

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#899 – WSOP Final Table Update #7 – DON’T LOOK at this Picture

#898 – WSOP Final Table Update #6 – BEGS is Magic

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:14:50 +0000

Shauna took this picture of Steven Begleiter’s crew after Steve won the best, boldest … baddest pot of the day: Steven Begleiter just put a gun in Darvin Moon’s mouth and pulled the trigger. Or maybe Moon put the gun in his own mouth. But the hand was so remarkable they called a break after it [...]

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#898 – WSOP Final Table Update #6 – BEGS is Magic

#897 – WSOP Final Table Update #5 – Caprice, 2009

mcraig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:00:33 +0000

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. [...]

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#897 – WSOP Final Table Update #5 – Caprice, 2009