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Post Re: World Series of Poker 2008
Hmm, now I have to pull for Tiffany, I guess. :er:

mdana, I agree with pretty much all what you said. We tend to see Hellmuth blow up a lot, but a lot of times he is right. Many players don't play according to the basic analysis or math any more. It's basically like "coin-flip is fine with me, I don't care."

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Wow, not even one "name" player made it into the Top 27?


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Post Re: World Series of Poker 2008
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They made a change this year.

When the final 9 are known, everybody will get paid out 9th place money and then there will be a several month hiatus.

The will conduct the final table in November, two days before the final table will air on ESPN.


Umm... why?

I can't remember exactly, did the ESPN coverage always last that long?


They're are doing this to pique interest in the game.
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Wow, not even one "name" player made it into the Top 27?


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Yeah, we only have one bracelet winner left, although Ylon Schwartz did cash 11 times. None of the remaining players cashed before 2005, so they all belong to this new generation. Tiffany Michelle will seriously be the only reason I'm following this from now on.

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Ha, someone just got eliminated going all-in pre-flop (some raise-reraise actions too) with Q-10 suited, when his chip count was many times the blind even though he was one of the short-stacks. Then I checked his profile link at the WSOP site: a youngster who never cashed in any events prior.

I miss seeing how a pro like Scotty Nguyen could nurture a short-stack and nagivate through the field to become the chip leader. The pace for this year's play has been too fast for the enjoyment of the game.

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Unbelievable.
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called an all-in bet with only 10-5 offsuit for about 1.7m more after an original bluff raise of 950K. Fittingly he ran into AA. This is not even the type of moves where massive chip-leader tries to bully the smaller stack; this is just plain stupidity.

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Pretty impressed with
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The chips are still pretty evenly distributed, similar to last year at this stage.

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Post Re: World Series of Poker (2009 now)
Has been pretty amazing first couple of weeks for the 2009 WSOP. Well-known pros are doing well. Negreanu made two final tables and cashed 4 times. Phil Ivey won one and is within reach of another one tonight. Then you have Wahlbeck cashing in 4 separate $10,000 buy-in events with one win, and John Brock Parker winning twice. Some terrific stuff.

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I follow Negreanu on twitter. He updates like every 15 minutes so I know he's been doing VERY well so far.

My uncle actually played in one today:

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playing the World Series of Poker event #24 $1500 tournament at noon. I'll need a ton of luck, but it was with me yesterday ONE TIME! first place could be hundreds of thousands, muhahahahahaha.... Getting any cash would be fine by me ;-)

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As far as the tournament goes, I played very well, the best tourney in a very long time. 2500 entered, the top 270 got paid. I finally busted 30 from the money with only 20 minutes left in the day, played for 13 plus hours straight. Sickest beat ever at the end, just the grossest cooler in recent memory. oh well...I'd like to play another one. Main Event?


So I guess he placed 300?

Not bad.

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Hmmm.. I didn't know you all enjoyed Poker.. How cool.. I love Poker and actually am pretty good at it, but have never entered online at "Pokerstars.Net" or "Full-Tilt" Poker.. Every night on NBC, I watch "Poker After Dark" and this week, they have the "Dream Players" featuring Mike Matasow, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Johnny Chan, and Daniel Negranu.. You all should check it out.. It's on at like 2:30 AM..


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Daniel Negreanu already eliminated.

tee hee

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The new structure seems to have allowed more pros to shine. The leaderboard is stacked after Day 2.

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Down to 64 players. The pros are indeed faring better than last year, and I could find more recognizable names, and probably the biggest of them all is still standing.

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Second in chip count with 30 people left, wow. I really hope he makes it to the final table. If he wins the event, that should cement his status as the greatest current poker player.


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And it would be his first NL bracelet. I'm definitely pulling for him too. With how fast the pace has been and people pushing all-in pre-flop left and right, he could probably fold his way into the final table, but I know that's certainly not his style. Going to be fun.

There are a couple of other name pros left as well, although one of them is short-stacked.

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What a hand Moon just won. He is catching cards left and right, and people are just giving their chips to him. Why would you call an all-in when you have 20m in chips? Unbelievable.

10 players now.

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Here are the final 9 for those who want to see:

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Darvin Moon -- Logger from Oakland, Maryland
Eric Buchman -- Not sure, since he didn't fill out his sheet, but he has many tournament results and he's from Long Island, NY
Steven Begleiter -- Former Bear Stears employee who now works in private equity. From Chappaqua, New York
Jeff Shulman -- His second WSOP main event final table, Card Player's Editor from Las Vegas, NV
Joseph Cada -- Professional poker player from Shelby Township, Michigan
Kevin Schaffel -- Semi-retired from Coral Springs, Florida
Antoine Saout -- Engineer turned professional poker player from France
Phil Ivey -- Seven-time WSOP bracelet winner, professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada
James Akenhead -- Professional poker player from London, England

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Off-topic, but thought this was hilarious that the winner against 260 women was the lone male entrant:

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In poker lingo, they're known as "bad beats." And an upstate New York woman has taken a couple recently, in real life as well as at the table.

On Saturday, Nicole Rowe, 40, of West Windsor, N.Y., placed second in a poker tournament at the Borgata in Atlantic City.

Second place is usually nothing to sneeze at, but what really miffed Rowe was that she lost to a man in what was supposed to be a women-only event.

Rowe, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer, had hoped that the top prize in the Ladies No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em tournament would pay for her living expenses while she recuperated from the mastectomy she expects to have at the end of the month.

She was among more than 260 women who each put up $300 to play in the tournament, but when the dust cleared, Abraham Korotki, 65, of Ventnor City, N.J., took home the trophy and $20,982 first prize.

"When you're a woman and you play poker, 99 percent of the time you're at a table with nine men," Rowe, who won $11,889, said yesterday during a phone interview, adding that playing against a field of women is "something I look forward to.

"Why did he have to ruin it for us? Why would he do this?"

So what was a man doing in a game clearly meant for the XX chromosome set?

Korotki - a semiretired real-estate developer who said yesterday that he's donating his winnings to three charities, including one dedicated to breast cancer - said his motives were purely innocent.

He explained that he entered the women's competition after quickly being eliminated from another, more-expensive tournament in which he went "all-in" with a pair of aces against two pair.

He said that he simply "wanted to get back on the horse," and signed up because he had earlier seen "five to 10" other men in the registration line.

Borgata officials said that they were not aware of any other male participants, nor were any other men pointed out by female players.

Korotki insisted that Borgata staffers never told him that he couldn't play in the tournament and insisted that he wouldn't have made a fuss if he'd been asked to stay out of it.

"I have great respect for the people at Borgata," he said.

"If someone had said, 'Abe, you can play, but please don't,' I would have said, 'Fine,' and gone home and been bored until the next tournament."

From the casino's standpoint, there was no option other than to seat Korotki.

"Borgata offers specialty tournaments, including the Ladies event," Joe Lupo, the gaming hall's senior vice-president, said in a statement.

"In the spirit of this event, it was our hope that only women would have participated, as has happened in the past. . . . However, given legal requirements, we must allow anyone who is over the age of 21 the opportunity to participate."

Korotki's entering the tournament aside, Rowe also was steamed that he refused to "chop" the pot with her as they began one-on-one play.

In poker tournaments, remaining players can agree to split the prize pool (in this case, each would have claimed more than $16,000).

But when Rowe asked Korotki to chop: "He said, 'The money is not important to me. The only way I will chop the pot is if I get the trophy,' " she said.

Rowe rejected the deal. "I could have used the [extra money], but I couldn't do it," she said. "I'm a competitor. And I was competing not just for me, but for every woman in the tournament."

Korotki didn't dispute Rowe's account.

But he said he didn't think it right that "she wanted to take the title without playing for it." And when one-on-one play commenced, he noted, he had the lead by about $200,000 (in tournament-play chips).

Nevertheless, both players claimed that there are no hard feelings.

Each acknowledged that earlier in the contest Korotki, after hearing from Rowe about her illness, purposely played a weak hand against her in hopes of helping her build her chip stack (she doubled her amount by winning the hand).

"She's a very lovely woman," Korotki said.

"My wife and I wished her the absolute best."


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The final table! :)

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I'm hoping the winner is either Phil, Darvin or Schulman in that order.

I'm not interested in Cada, Saout, Buchman or any of the rest. Bleh.

I thought that last huge hand of Darvin's was amazing. The other player with what 20 million chips risks it all with 53 of diamonds that makes a flush. You fucking nutter. He deserved to lose all his hard earned chips to get loosey goosey with that dumb hand.

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I'm rooting for Ivey vs Cada or Moon headsup. :D n of course for Ivey to win it all.

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Moon played a couple of hands rather curiously. Good to see Ivey finally getting some chips.

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Well, that's that, I guess.

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