09 Aug 06
Opulence, Poker and Large Bar Bills!
uk.pokernews.com -- With half the poker-playing population evidently swarming around Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker, the proprietors of the countless number of casinos and entertainment joints up and down The Strip and beyond are counting the dollars flashing before their eyes.
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09 Aug 06
WSOP Final Table Decided
casinotimes.co.uk - The seating at the final table are:
1 - Richard Lee - 11,820,000 chips
2 - Erik Friberg - 9,605,000 chips
3 - Paul Wasicka - 7,970,000 chips
4 - Dan Nassif - 2,600,000 chips
5 - Allen Cunningham - 17,770,000 chips
6 - Michael Binger - 3,140,000 chips
7 - Doug Kim - 6,770,000 chips
8 - Jamie Gold - 26,650,000 chips
9 - Rhett Butler - 4,815,000 chips
The final will start at 10PM Thursday, UK time.
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08 Aug 06
PokerWire: Day 6 Chip Counts
"With 27 players remaining, the average chip count is about 3.25 million. Jamie Gold leads the field with 13 million. The two big names still alive are Jeffrey Lisandro (3.75 million) and Allen Cunningham (2.65 million)."
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08 Aug 06
WSOP - Top Three Leaders Are All Jewish
eog.com - The Word Series of Poker has finished this evening, with play to resume tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, August 8, at 3 PM EST.
There are 27 participants remaining.
The top three positions are currently held by players who appear to be of Jewish descent.
"Crushing Hezbollah is not like ordering pizza. It takes time," Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser told a news conference in Jerusalem today.
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08 Aug 06
Live From WSOP: Winners, Losers, etc.
Aug. 8 (Bloomberg): Peter Alson, a native New Yorker and poker lifer, has never won a big-time event. He has other gifts, however, chief among them the ability to write winningly about the game.
"Take Me to the River: A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker" chronicles his 2005 trip to Vegas for the series. He had hoped to win enough money to pay for his wedding, as well as summon the courage to go through with the nuptials, having spent most of his 50 years as a commitment- phobic bachelor.
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07 Aug 06
WSOP: 69 Players Left - Gold Widens Lead
"As of 9:15 PM EST Sunday Night, Jamie Gold had more than a 1 million chip lead over his closest competitor.
Jamie Gold, 36, is a former Hollywood agent for Felicity Huffman, 'Desperate Housewives' and 'The Sopranos' star James Gandolfini."
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07 Aug 06
Will Congress Cripple Internet Poker?
"The U.S. House of Representatives has just approved a bill, HR 4411, which, if the Senate and President agree, will create the Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act. If the bill becomes law, online poker will be changed forever."
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06 Aug 06
Defending champ Hachem finished at WSOP
USAToday - LAS VEGAS (AP) — Defending champion Joseph Hachem was knocked out of the World Series of Poker on Saturday night and finished in 238th place.
Hachem, who won $7.5 million last year, went all-in with a pair of aces, but lost to his opponents three of a kind.
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06 Aug 06
WSOP: Daniel Negreanu busts out
gambling911.com - Saturday evening, 2006 World Series of Poker favorite to win, Daniel Negreanu, busted out. Negreanu over his professional poker career has amassed a nice fortune totaling close to $8 million.
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04 Aug 06
1,159 players remaining in WSOP
Wednesday, LAS VEGAS (AP) — After six days of poker, 1,159 players remain in the hunt for poker's biggest prize, the $12 million top purse for the winner of the main event at the World Series of Poker.
Dmitri Nobles has the lead at 549,200 in chips when play resumes Friday at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino after a day off.
Ken Jacobs, son of poker pro Tom Jacobs, was fourth with 375,300, while Canadian "Kid Poker" Daniel Negreanu was sixth with 331,000.
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04 Aug 06
Poker becomes "reality" on new doc
Gambling911 -- The 2006 World Series of Poker’s Main Event is underway this week in Las Vegas, and ABA Entertainment, LLC is capturing the behind-the-scenes footage for an upcoming documentary, “House of Cards” – revealing the roller-coaster-real-life-grind of the professional poker player.
Marc Goodwin, the face of USAPoker, is one of seven widely recognized players being followed in this new documentary. For six weeks, camera crews will be following them between the tournament tables, bathroom breaks all the way to their residence, the “Parisian Palace;” a $13 million home rumored to have been previously owned by Whoopi Goldberg.
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04 Aug 06
Negreanu hangs tough
"One of the biggest names in poker - maybe even the biggest name in poker - Daniel Negreanu continued to play strong with the World Series of Poker resuming Friday. Negreanu, who has won nearly $8 million throughout his poker career, ranked #3 in chip count Wednesday night."
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03 Aug 06
WSOP Field Narrows
Forbes.com -- Tournament supervisor Charles Ciresi was just trying to drum up morale. What he got was an answer that was more of the same - the relentless shuffling of chips and a dispassionate smattering of applause. ...
With Day 6 of the World Series of Poker's main event in full swing, there were 1,541 players left, down from a record 8,773 entrants.
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02 Aug 06
Ordinary Joe buys into WSOP
LAS VEGAS (AP) - It costs $10,000 US to enter the main event at the World Series of Poker, which is more than Mike Kurtyak or any of his poker buddies can afford on their own.
So, they had an ingenious idea: Hold a year-long tournament, one event a month, with the winner earning a trip to the main event.
Ten guys chipped in $100 every time they played. They accumulated points for finishing first, second, third and so on. The guy with the most points at the end got the entire pot of $11,000 - $10,000 for the entry fee and $1,000 for travel.
Mike won it, and now he finds himself in a much different game - the world's biggest poker tournament.
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02 Aug 06
WSOP 2006 Breaks Prize Records
With 8,773 competitors this year, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has already broken the record for the greatest number of participants in one live poker event. Now, they are set to break the prize record to, with the eventual winner taking home a massive $12 million. Players who finish as low as 12th will win 1 million. The total prize pool for the event is a colossal $82.5 million.
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01 Aug 06
Ferguson Plays Miracle Hands at WSOP
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Chris (Jesus) Ferguson put his tournament on the line twice Tuesday, both times catching miracle cards at the World Series of Poker and turning a below-average stack into more than enough chips to remain a contender in the main event.
In a feisty exchange, the poker pro raised and re-raised his way into a massive pot holding pocket kings, with the board showing a harmless-looking queen, five and four. Opponent Robert Ozeran, a 21-year-old student from the University of Southern California, held a queen and five, giving him the dominant two pair. When the betting was done, Ferguson's 40,000 in chips were all-in.
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01 Aug 06
Harrah's Final Count For Main Event
cardplayer.com -- It’s official. The numbers on the total field and first place cash prize for the 2006 World Series of Poker are in…almost.
With three first flights in the book and Day 1D half over, Harrah’s released the final head count for the main event’s field — 8,773 entrants.
So what about the money?
“We’re probably looking at at least $11,500,000 for first place.” WSOP commissioner Jeffrey Pollack said early on Day 1D. “It’s unofficial, we won’t know until the end of the day today, maybe tomorrow morning.”
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01 Aug 06
Defending champ plays aggressively
LAS VEGAS — Defending champion Joseph Hachem of Australia turned the poker table into his bully pulpit Monday, aggressively raising players he considered out of line and increasing his own stack at the main event in the World Series of Poker.
Hachem more than doubled his opening stake to 22,000 chips after six hours of play, knocking out an opponent along the way.
"It's just going smoothly," Hachem said during a break. "I don't play too many hands, so they don't think I'm getting out of line a lot. And if I think they're getting out of line, then I make them move all-in. If I'm right, I'm right, and if I'm wrong, then I've got to shut up shop."
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31 Jul 06
Two Legends, Brunson & Hellmuth, Exit WSOP
Doyle Brunson, 10-time WSOP bracelet winner and widely regarded as the best poker player in modern history has just lost a huge pot. He's left short-stacked with less than 3000 chips deep into level 3, with 50/100 blinds. ... Doyle battles the short stack and lasts past the dinner break into level four before finally bowing out. He receives not one but two standing ovations upon exiting.
In a stark contrast, earlier in the day, Phil Hellmuth was eliminated from the ESPN feature table. ...[H]e is out on the same hand as last year, when his A-Q fails to improve against pocket 7's. The announcement comes that Phil Hellmuth has just been eliminated over the loudspeaker and the crowd roars its approval, with thunderous applause and laughter following.
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31 Jul 06
Playboy, CryptoLogic join on poker site
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian gambling software company CryptoLogic Inc. and Playboy Enterprises Inc. will expand their relationship by launching the first Playboy-branded online poker Web site, the companies said on Monday.
The exclusive three-year licensing deal means CryptoLogic will provide the only software used by the site, which will target players around the world except in the United States. No terms of the deal were disclosed.
The two companies already have a similar agreement in place to launch a new Playboy casino site. Playboy plans to cross-promote the gaming Web sites in its other properties, including print and online, the companies said.
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