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While I was waiting in the parking lot of the Flagstaff AMTRAK station late Wednesday night, I saw an e-mail from Uncle Tilty regarding the robbery at the Bellagio. It warned players to be wary of $25,000-denomination chips from strangers and that the Bellagio was now in the process of taking those chips out of circulation.
The Bellagio was robbed? I was intrigued, but purely out of curiosity. I don’t have any $25,000 chips, from the Bellagio or anywhere else, and I never get offers to purchase them, at a discount or otherwise.
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The biggest development on Full Tilt in 2010 – and probably, in all of online poker (though I have an obvious institutional bias) – has been Rush Poker. Full Tilt recently unveiled two extensions of Rush Poker: Rush Poker Mobile and Rush on Demand tournaments. The former has the potential to revolutionize online poker (again), while the latter is merely some tinkering with multi-table SnGs. (In fact, the “On Demand” innovation isn’t even restricted to Rush Tournaments. Full Tilt also added $2 + $.25 SnGs on Demand and super-turbos on Demand from $2.50 + $.20 to $20 + $1.)
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I received a comment from a regular reader of the Blog, BK, asking me to correct an oversight, which I am happy to do. At the beginning of the WSOP last May, I reported about a high-stakes WSOP fantasy league, “WSOP Fight Club.” Eleven top players each put up $25k and drafted and bid on teams of eight players, receiving points based on those players’ finish in WSOP events. In the chaos at the end of the Series concerning the Ted Forrest-Mike Matusow weight-loss bet, I never posted the final results of the Fight Club.
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[Image of Dostoevsky mural in the Moscow train station, the opening of which has been delayed for concerns it will become a "mecca of suicides," from The Independent, www.independent.co.uk.]
Senate Majority Leady Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has drafted a bill to legalize online poker. Considering the complexity of the interests potentially supporting the measure – casino companies, Indian reservations, online gaming sites, poker players, banking companies – the draft bill, to have any chance of passing in the lame-duck session, probably needed the skills of one of the greatest writers of all time to accommodate all those interests into something coherent.. Looking at the 75-page bill on the PPA’s website, it looks like Senator Reid tapped Fyodor Dostoevsky for the job. The bill can do just about everything everyone supporting it wants, but accomplishing that has come at the cost of some twists worthy of classic Russian literature.
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Scheduled for only fifteen minutes prior to the finale of the 2010 WSOP Main Event, the Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony, gratefully, took double its allotted time. Nevertheless, I was amazed by how much history, humor, intelligence, gratitude, and emotion could burst from such a small package. I’m sure it had something to do with the gravitas of the inductees, Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel, but Harrah’s and ESPN would be smart, if they care about poker’s long-term acceptance as a “mainstream” competitive activity, to promote such events.
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One of the reasons Harrah’s provided in 2008 for delaying the Main Event final table was to give players a chance to line up endorsements. I think everybody recognized that Coke and Microsoft weren’t automatically going to start bidding to get their logos on players. It’s an incremental process, though, and you have to start by creating the market.
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When Shauna and I arrived at the Penn & Teller Theater at 9:00am Saturday, nearly three hours before Final Table play started, there was a long line of fans snaking through the Convention Center hoping to obtain general admission. What we saw was a strong endorsement of Harrah’s decision to delay the final table until November.
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The modern world moves so fast that we are all both fascinated yet unsurprised by the endless stream of celebrity hook-ups and break-ups. Late at night during last year’s final table some shutterbug snapped a pic of my assistant Shauna sashaying with Sasquatch.
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One of the hottest new apps for the iPad/iPhone is called “Where is Lady Gaga?”
For ninety-nine cents you can find out, as well as get fan-generated news and updates on Stefanie Germanotta’s whereabouts and activities. To me, this is the twenty-first century equivalent of receiving “news” about Elvis being spotted in a Muskegon, Michigan, hardware store, but I guess this is a big business.
Who knew? Expect to hear about my imminent departure to develop the get-rich-for-sure app, “Where in the World is Patrik Antonious?”
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The hand that busted Matt Jarvis and propelled Michael Mizrachi back into contention was identical to another hand that may have been the most important in World Series history. You will see Jarvis’s pocket nines against Grinder’s A-Q on ESPN. All-in pre-flop, Q-Q-3 flop, nine on the turn, ace on the river.
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