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2011 World Series of Poker Day 17: Another Juanda Final Table

AlCantHang — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:32:04 +0000

Gavin Smith visits with Erick Lindgren during the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship “It seems all Juanda does is make final tables.“ Quoting myself when I didn’t go too far out on a limb putting John Juanda on my Players to Watch list before the series kicked off. After winning the Deuce-to-Seven Championship earlier in the [...]

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2011 World Series of Poker Day 17: Another Juanda Final Table

2011 World Series of Poker Day 13: Juanda Defeats Hellmuth

AlCantHang — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:15:46 +0000

I walked to the main ESPN stage (aka The Mothership) as the final table of the Deuce-to-Seven Championship was getting underway. The day started with nine players and needing two knockouts for the “official” final table. The elimination of Greg Raymer and Joe Cassidy created a historical moment as the first time in history every [...]

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2011 World Series of Poker Day 13: Juanda Defeats Hellmuth

2011 World Series of Poker Day 12: Hellmuth Goes for Number 12

AlCantHang — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:48:08 +0000

The “fun table” of the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. with Lacey Jones and Gavin Smith Walking into the Rio today reminds me of the first year they ran the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em “Stimulus Special” tournament in 2009. The hallways packed to the gills with an incredibly long registration line that still stretched forever when cards went [...]

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2011 World Series of Poker Day 12: Hellmuth Goes for Number 12

2011 World Series of Poker: Players to Watch

AlCantHang — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:15:54 +0000

The 2011 World Series of Poker is upon us. The first “open” event will begin in a few hours with the $25,000 Heads Up World Championship and we will officially be underway in the Rio. It’s become a custom around these parts to begin the WSOP by putting together a list of players to watch. [...]

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2011 World Series of Poker: Players to Watch

Full Tilt Poker announces the Onyx Cup Series

AlCantHang — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:50:50 +0000

Full Tilt Poker is always looking at ways to expand the poker experience and yesterday announced a new set of events designed to bring together some of the best poker players in the world. The Onyx Cup Series is six high roller tournaments around the world with buy-ins ranging from $100k to $300k, creating fields [...]

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Full Tilt Poker announces the Onyx Cup Series

2010 World Series of Poker: Player of the Year Front-runners

AlCantHang — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:37:38 +0000

Since 2004, the World Series of Poker has tracked player performance throughout the summer and awards a Player of the Year title to the one who accumulates the most points. The point system is based on cashes, deep runs, and final table performance. Since its inception, every player to win the POY has also won [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Player of the Year Front-runners

2010 World Series of Poker: Bracelet #8 for Phil Ivey

AlCantHang — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:11:48 +0000

Phil Ivey captures his 8th WSOP bracelet in 2010 World Series of Poker Event #37 Two weeks ago we found ourselves with the most exciting final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker when Tom “durrrr” Dwan was going for his first career bracelet. Tonight the atmosphere was completely different but the poker world [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Bracelet #8 for Phil Ivey

2010 World Series of Poker Day 25: The Match That Wouldn’t End

AlCantHang — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:38:38 +0000

Every time I think I have a handle on the play at the 2010 WSOP they throw me for another loop. You can usually expect the big buyin limit/split pot games to go into the early morning to declare a champ, the 6-handed and Pot Limit games usually hit their number at a reasonable hour, [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Day 25: The Match That Wouldn’t End

2010 World Series of Poker Day 15: Tilty Final Table

AlCantHang — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:54:08 +0000

Welcome to my least favorite day of the entire WSOP where we kicked off Event #22: $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship. This event draws more and more criticism as the years go by no matter your opinion on the event. Some feel it is sexist, some feel it’s separatist. Some vocally boycott the tournament while [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Day 15: Tilty Final Table

2010 World Series of Poker Day 13: Unlucky Numbers

AlCantHang — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:16:32 +0000

Jennifer Harman at the $10,000 Stud/8 World Championship final table (Photographer/WSOPphotos.com) After walking in the door of the Amazon Room yesterday and getting some writing done I decided to chat up my fellow members in the pressbox. On paper it looked like a rare slow day at the WSOP but we had 18 players returning [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Day 13: Unlucky Numbers