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2010 World Series of Poker: Week Four in Pictures

AlCantHang — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:39:21 +0000

Phil Ivey stands for the U.S. National Anthem during his bracelet ceremony (Photographer/GreasieWheels) Just in case you were living under a rock away from the poker over the last week, Phil Ivey captured his 8th career WSOP bracelet in the $3,000 HORSE event over Bill Chen. It was an interesting spectacle with a different atmosphere [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Week Four in Pictures

2010 World Series of Poker: Week Three in Pictures

AlCantHang — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:08:47 +0000

It was an oddly quiet week in the Rio this week with a few rare day with only one new event and some without a final table. That all changed as the week closed out when we found ourselves with 6 or 7 tournaments running at the same time. Richard Ashby became the second Full [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Week Three in Pictures

WSOP Caption Contest #2: Best Captions win 1,000 FTP Points

Dave McCarthy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:10:11 +0000

Congratulations to our caption contest winners! There were a lot of good submissions; it was tough to pick just one for each. Stay tuned for another caption contest this week… Photo A: While the dealer is looking away, Schoenberg uses her secret Jedi-Forces to switch cards. – H311f14m3 Photo B: “Hey Phil, go ahead and [...]

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WSOP Caption Contest #2: Best Captions win 1,000 FTP Points

Howard Lederer to Andy Bloch: $25,000 to eat 24 cupcakes

AlCantHang — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:52:22 +0000

Every year at the World Series of Poker you constantly hear stories about bizarre prop bets and the insane money changing hands. Weight loss bets, bracelet bets, last longer bets, you name it and these guys will bet on it. Word started popping up in the Pavilion Room and twitter about an offer made from [...]

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Howard Lederer to Andy Bloch: $25,000 to eat 24 cupcakes

Week in Review (Feb 13-20): Obama in Vegas, Isildur1, and more…

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:24:52 +0000

In General Poker News: Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer each donated $30k to attend a fundraiser with President Barack Obama Thursday night at the home of Palms owner George Maloof. No word on whether the two Full Tilt pros were able to convince the President to accept the Irish Poker Open’s invitation to play in [...]

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Week in Review (Feb 13-20): Obama in Vegas, Isildur1, and more…

Big Money Sunday – January 24th

AlCantHang — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:09:04 +0000

Dan Shak defeated Phil Ivey in the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge Photo credit: PokerNews.com It’s been a very busy week around the poker world and your not-so-humble blogger was in the middle of it a little. Live poker was raging across the planet with the WPT Southern Poker Championship, the Borgata Winter Open, Los Angeles [...]

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Big Money Sunday – January 24th

Team Full Tilt Look to Dominate Live Poker. Again.

AlCantHang — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:28:10 +0000

Erik Cajelais at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe" width="500" /> Things get quite bizarre around me when I find myself going a week’s length of time without serious internet access. I always have my trusty iPhone on my person in case immediate situations present themselves where I need access to a search engine [...]

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Team Full Tilt Look to Dominate Live Poker. Again.

2009 World Series of Poker – Week 4 in Pictures

AlCantHang — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:04:59 +0000

Another week has gone by at the 2009 World Series of Poker and things are starting to ramp up. Full Tilt was unable to add to it’s collection of WSOP bracelets but FTP blogger Michael Craig and pro Vitaly Lunkin both put in second place showings. The week started with the NHL Stanley Cup coming [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker – Week 4 in Pictures

2009 World Series of Poker Day 27 – Calm before the storm

AlCantHang — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:12:42 +0000

And we’re back after a slight delay due to “technical difficulties” and ready to set off on the closing few weeks of the 2009 World Series of Poker. The big men in charge did us a favor with a relatively slow week but those days are not going to last very long. Yesterday started two [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker Day 27 – Calm before the storm

2009 World Series of Poker – Week 2 in Pictures

AlCantHang — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:32:09 +0000

We’ve put another week of the 2009 World Series of Poker in the books with more craziness. The crowds continue to storm the hallways of the Amazon Room looking for a table and a chance. The crazies are starting to make their way onto the scene, pros and amateurs are mingling together with a common [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker – Week 2 in Pictures