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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

WSOP Caption Contest #3: 4,500 FTP Points up for Grabs

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:09:38 +0000

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 [...]

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WSOP Caption Contest #3: 4,500 FTP Points up for Grabs

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

2010 World Series of Poker: Tom Dwan Comes Up Short

AlCantHang — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:01:51 +0000

This is why we play the game, why we watch it on TV, and why folks like us show up each summer to report on the events. It was not a big buyin tournament or someone going for a record bracelet. Just a few feet away were some of the best poker players in the [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Tom Dwan Comes Up Short

Mike “The Mouth” Matusow to Run Naked Down the Las Vegas Strip?

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:54:52 +0000

The likelihood of Mike Matusow running naked down Las Vegas Boulevard is now positively correlated with gender equality. On Wednesday night’s episode of Poker2Nite, Mike Matusow promised to run naked down The Strip if three women win bracelets at the 2010 World Series of Poker. The poker show’s co-host Scott Huff appeared to be fishing for an [...]

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Mike “The Mouth” Matusow to Run Naked Down the Las Vegas Strip?

Searching for Full Tilt

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:02:42 +0000

Before I started blogging here at Poker from the Rail, Full Tilt gave me some data about their web traffic so that I’d have a better idea of what everyone likes to read. This included a list of all the google searches that led people to Poker from the Rail or Michael Craig’s blog. Here’s [...]

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Searching for Full Tilt

2009 World Series of Poker – Day 2a Pictures

AlCantHang — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:15:00 +0000

Sometimes things just go way over the top when you’re dealing with the biggest poker tournament in the world. You’ll see some crazy things along the rails, loud player disagreements, whack jobs dressed in all types of getups looking for camera attention. Then you have the times when a table pulls the attention of every [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker – Day 2a Pictures

2009 World Series of Poker – Ante Up for Africa Pictures

AlCantHang — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:41:22 +0000

Each year before the World Series of Poker Main Event, the poker elite, pro athletes, celebrities, movies stars, and recording artists descend upon the Amazon Room to play poker in the Ante Up for Africa charity tournament. They were here to raise both money and awareness for the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. The tournament was [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker – Ante Up for Africa Pictures

2009 World Series of Poker – Main Event Day 1b Pictures

AlCantHang — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:21:12 +0000

There were plenty of opportunities for more pictures yesterday during the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1b and some great stories. 655 players of the starting 873 survived the day with even more Tilters moving onto Day 2. Full Tilt sponsored two players in the Main Event with stories worthy of your [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker – Main Event Day 1b Pictures

2009 World Series of Poker Day 30 – HORSE on the way

AlCantHang — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:09:19 +0000

I should be taking every advantage of this lovely Thursday afternoon/evening because it might be the last slow day I have until I hop that jet airplane back east after the “November Nine” is set. Just one little $1,500 PLO8 tournament kicking off today but tomorrow is the granddaddy of big buyin skill games. The [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker Day 30 – HORSE on the way