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One of our Danish qualifiers, Horatio, won two Main Event seats in a week, flew from Denmark to Vegas, and then was almost unable to play. Luckily, he had a redraw after the life bad beat…
So is this your first WSOP?
Yes. It’s always been a dream of mine to play in the Main Event. I remember reading about the World Series when I was 11 or 12 – there was an article in one of my father’s naked lady magazines about some guy from Texas who had just won it. I thought, “Cool, a World Cup of playing cards.” That was the age when I was first really into cards. I kept the article for five or six years.
I’ve been playing poker for long time, but I’ve always stayed away from the WSOP since you have to pay 60% or even 72% in taxes on gambling profit outside the EU. But I had a really good year this year, so it seemed like now was a good time.
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Tom “durrrr” Dwan entered the final day of Event #55: $10,000 PLO with a huge chip lead. He quickly lost 70% of his chips before a near triple-up put him back at the top of the leaderboard. Thinking this might be another epic run at a bracelet with the biggest names in poker sweating (literally), I spent some time on his rail.
Unfortunately, Durrrr didn’t make the final table, but there were still a few interesting sights and sounds from the rail.
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Our WSOP interview with Full Tilt Poker qualifier and forum regular Francois8 was pretty popular, so we wanted to do it again. This time, we’ve got FTP forum moderator GypsyDC playing in her first WSOP: Event #54: $1,000 NLH. We’ll get some photos up here as soon as possible. For now, here’s the interview.
So how does this experience rate on the all time life experience list?
This is my first WSOP. I’d say for me it’s definitely in the top five or ten things.
What made you decide to play year?
I was planning to come out to Vegas anyway and hang out and meet some forumers, play some poker with them. Then out of the blue I was offered to be backed 75% by two people on the forum, so I decided to go for it. I didn’t know when I’d have another chance like this.
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Following up on Al’s recent Player of the Year Front-runners post:
From now through Saturday at noon ET, you can register for our “Fantasy Player of the Year” contest, in which you attempt to correctly pick the top three finishers in the WSOP’s Player of the Year rankings. It’s free to enter and particularly good for people who:
– are drawing thin in their Fantasy WSOP pools who are looking for relevant WSOP action to sweat
– are doing well in their Fantasy WSOP pools and want to hedge down the homestretch
– entered a Fantasy World Cup pool and don’t even pay attention to it anymore because the injury faking is too nauseating to watch. I’m pretty sure I saw a guy get carried off the field (sitting up) on a stretcher, only to return to the game minutes later. What is that? Don’t get me wrong, soccer’s a great game, but the injury faking is just ridiculous.
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To enter to win the sweepstakes, visit the Full Tilt Poker Facebook Page.
**Winners**
Congratulations: leefan189 on winning the grand prize, and the following players who won the runner up prize of 3500 FTPs: cupcake1010, Mindutiiss, Deenniiss say, psu2zz, nickcox1, deankn68, dga3310, King Rocket 22, Lucky Raven
Sweepstakes prizes:
Grand prize: A private $500 freeroll tournament for you and your friends. You’ll pick the date and time and give us a list of players to register for the tournament. The prize pool will be $500 and there will be no entry fee. Winner will be notified after the deadline and asked to submit player IDs for the tournament and specify a format (e.g. deepstack No Limit Hold ‘em).
2nd – 10th Prize: 3500 Full Tilt Poker points
Sweepstakes rules:
- One entry per person
- The freeroll must have at least 6 total players (you and 5 friends), and no more than 18
- Participation in the sweepstakes is subject to Full Tilt Poker’s Terms and Conditions, including your government’s age restrictions.
- Sweepstakes administrators reserve the right to alter the promotion’s rules. Administrators’ decisions are final.
Entry period: July 30, 9:00 ET – August 18, 23:00 ET
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Poker fans with a fondness for social media will be happy to learn that Tom “durrrr” Dwan has now joined the ranks of active Tweeters. Durrrr’s Twitter page is twitter.com/Tom_Dwan. There were previously a lot of fake Tom Dwan Twitter pages. This one is real.
The Full Tilt WSOP coverage site collects durrrr and other Full Tilt pros’ tweets, so you can go to one place to find 140 character updates from the likes of Durrrr, Annette Obrestad, John Juanda, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, and others.
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Poker from the Rail reader Pokerbooster presents the final hands and results from Events #45, 46, 48. Pokerbooster and the lovely Mrs. Pokerbooster were married this Saturday – and they still managed to get their guest post in! (No word on whether Bill Chen planned the wedding.)
Thanks Pokerboosters and congratulations on the wedding!
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Poker from the Rail’s Top 5 Stories of the Week (June 20-27)
5. What do Scott Montgomery and Gavin Smith have in common?
4. WSOP Tournament of Champions began Sunday: Who’s already out?
3. New Zealand and Australia: How is Oceaniac poker law changing?
2. Frank Kassela won his 2nd Bracelet of the 2010 WSOP: What’s a guy have to do to win Player of the Year?
1. Phil Ivey won his 8th Bracelet: So why did it make fellow Tilter Howard Lederer “gulp?”
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Dean Hamrick, Ian Gordon, and Gavin Smith all took home WSOP bracelets this weekend. Poker from the Rail reader Pokerbooster has the final hands and final table results from Events #42, 43, and 44.
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Please note: Caption Contest #3 has ended. We will have another one soon!
Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to everyone for participating!
Everyone who submitted a caption will be registered in a $100 freeroll at 3pm ET Saturday, July 3. If you don’t intend to play in the freeroll, please say so — we’d like to cut down on the deadstacks if possible. The freeroll will be created Thursday and I will post the tournament ID here, though you’ll be able to find it by searching for (Ctrl+F) your player ID. If you aren’t registered by Thursday, email me at davefromtherail@gmail.com. Please make sure to include your comment number and your FTP ID in the email.
Winners will be paid their 500 FTP points within 48 hours (of Wednesday 12:01 am). If you haven’t been paid by then, please let me know: davefromtherail@gmail.com
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