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2011 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 3

AlCantHang — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:42:29 +0000

Day 3 at the World Series of Poker is always one of my favorite. It’s the first day when the entire field is together, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel with the breaking of each table. Unlike the rest of the summer, when they break a table here it stays [...]

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2011 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 3

2010 World Series of Poker: Best Players Without WSOP Title

AlCantHang — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:27:24 +0000

It’s one of the standard conversations which always come up during the World Series of Poker. Who’s the best player to not have captured their first bracelet? Mr. McCarthy and myself were just sitting on media row yesterday bouncing names back and forth with the usual suspect always in the mix, Team Full Tilt member [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Best Players Without WSOP Title

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: The Year of High Stakes Poker

AlCantHang — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:22:48 +0000

Looking back on 2009, one of the top stories was the emergence of the extreme limit cash games on Full Tilt Poker. Never has online poker seen games spread at such levels, so high only a tiny percentage could even imagine joining the games but they consumed both players and railbirds throughout the year. Things [...]

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2009: The Year of High Stakes Poker

Big Money (Weekend) Sunday – November 22nd

AlCantHang — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:59:31 +0000

This weekend was already destined to have more huge action then usual with the $25k Heads-Up PLO World Championship running in addition to the regular slate of Sunday Majors. On top of all the scheduled action, most of the poker world now knows about the spectacle going down on the HIGH limit cash tables on [...]

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Big Money (Weekend) Sunday – November 22nd

$25k Heads-Up PLO World Championship

AlCantHang — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:59:19 +0000

In all the excitement of the November Nine, FTOPS XIV, and the Isildur1 cash game craziness I completely lost track of the upcoming $25k Heads-Up PLO World Championship. In addition to the standard Big Money Sunday games, today at 15:00ET brings a tournament that will feature most of the top players from the online and [...]

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$25k Heads-Up PLO World Championship

Cash Game Explosion

AlCantHang — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:41:17 +0000

Patrik Antonius" width="250" /> I was minding my own business after a casual day of live cash games/drinking when my trusty wifi-enabled communication devices began chirping and chiming away. Everyone who knew of my associate with The Tilt began texting and twittering about the cash games blowing up with huge pots, all the big game [...]

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Cash Game Explosion

The “durrrr” Challenge Continues

AlCantHang — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:50:14 +0000

They haven’t played a hand since June. Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius finally resumed action in their Heads Up durrrr Challenge battle with two sessions this week. Dwan at one point was ahead by over $1,000,000 and started these sessions with around a $700,000 cushion. After just a few thousand hands, Antonius grabbed the [...]

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The “durrrr” Challenge Continues

2009 World Series of Poker – No pause for “durrrr Challenge”

AlCantHang — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:46:24 +0000

Tom “durrrr” Dwan playing in the $10,000 Heads Up World Championship Photo credit: Gene Bromberg When Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius began their epic heads up matches several months ago, one of the big questions floating around the internet was how many hands they would have to average so they would be done by [...]

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2009 World Series of Poker – No pause for “durrrr Challenge”

durrrr Challenge Update – Another Patrik Antonius Interview

AlCantHang — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:40:28 +0000

Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius continue their epic heads-up battle on Full Tilt Poker in the durrrr Challenge. As of today they have played over 7,200 hands of the required 50,000. That’s just short of 15% down before a winner is declared yet the numbers continue to switch between the two on a regular [...]

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durrrr Challenge Update – Another Patrik Antonius Interview