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Remembering Jack Ury, Oldest Player in WSOP History

Dave McCarthy — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:53:57 +0000

Jack Julian Ury of Terre Haute Indiana, US Navy veteran of World War II and the oldest World Series of Poker Main Event participant ever, passed away Tuesday night, February 1, 2011. Ury set the Main Event age record each of the last four years, competing in this year’s event at the age of 97. [...]

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Remembering Jack Ury, Oldest Player in WSOP History

Tournament Selection

Dave McCarthy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:16:43 +0000

We’re happy to have a guest post from ThePicotrain who Poker from the Rail staked in the MiniFTOPS Main Event back in a September writing contest. ThePicotrain wanted to discuss tournament selection with other Poker from the Rail readers. While normally this sort of thing would be directed to the Full Tilt Poker Forums, we figured [...]

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Tournament Selection

MiniFTOPS XVIII, Big Money Sunday, and a deep Mizrachi run

AlCantHang — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:37:15 +0000

It was a big day on the site with the monthly $1,000,000 Guarantee hitting at the same time as the final events of MiniFTOPS XVIII. That created two prizepools over $1,000,000 and five players with paydays over 6 digits if you include the final day of Event #29. While spending my day railing I was [...]

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MiniFTOPS XVIII, Big Money Sunday, and a deep Mizrachi run

Dr. Pauly on High Stakes Cash Games

Dave McCarthy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:29:13 +0000

We’re happy to have Friend of the Blog — and one of poker’s best writers — guest posting at Poker from the Rail. Dr. Pauly, author of Tao of Poker and Lost Vegas, takes a wide-angled look at the biggest cash games in the world: from the days of Amarillo Slim to Isildur1, from tables in [...]

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Dr. Pauly on High Stakes Cash Games

November Nine Day 1 Recap: From Nine to Two

Dave McCarthy — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:06:34 +0000

It took 219 hands and about 14 hours for the November Nine to play down to two. In between, the clocks moved back an hour, Frank Kassela won Player of the Year, and the biggest pot in WSOP history was played. When play resumes Monday at 8pm, Jonathan Duham will take a 6-1 chip lead [...]

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November Nine Day 1 Recap: From Nine to Two

2010 WSOP November Nine Guide

Dave McCarthy — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:47:08 +0000

The WSOP Main Event Final Table is only days away. On Saturday November 6, the November Nine – Soi Nguyen, Filippo Candio, Matthew Jarvis, John Racener, Joseph Cheong, John Dolan, Michael Mizrachi, Jason Senti, and Jonathan Duhamel – will play down to two. Heads up play will resume Monday November 8, and ESPN will air [...]

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2010 WSOP November Nine Guide

Rush Poker Mobile on the Dell Streak

Dave McCarthy — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:29:18 +0000

Dell recently released their “Streak” — a tablet/phone hybrid that runs on the Android platform. After a little work under the hood, we were able to get flash on it so we could play some Rush Poker mobile. Online poker on your phone…kids these days! (You can also see more in our Rush Mobile beta [...]

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Rush Poker Mobile on the Dell Streak

Rush Poker Mobile Beta Video

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:58:40 +0000

I was recently invited to help test the Rush Poker Mobile beta version. Specifically, Full Tilt wanted to know how the game would handle really poor play… Beta testing is available to Black Card holders. This is an excerpt from the email sent to Black Card holders: A new application that works on select mobile devices and [...]

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Rush Poker Mobile Beta Video

Free Online Poker: Freeroll Strategy and Advice

Dave McCarthy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:43:32 +0000

If you want to play free poker online, you’ve got a few options: Online Play Money As far as I know, all major online poker card rooms offer play money. It’s free to sign up. You can’t lose anything, but you can’t really win anything either. Zynga Poker In Zynga Poker (available at social networking [...]

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Suggestions from the Rail: How to refresh your Hold’em Game

Dave McCarthy — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:36:11 +0000

Last week we asked for suggestions for how players could refresh their Texas Hold’em games if their rate of improvement had slowed or they were no longer enjoying the game like they once did. We offered 7 suggestions and asked for three more to round out a Top 10. (For our list, see: Texas Hold’em Jumpstart.) Congratulations to [...]

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