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Online Poker News :Jarah Mariano Brings You Today’s Poker News Link Dump

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:05:24 +0000

Barry Greenstein just got a chubby.

Here are a few things going on in the poker world post-2010 WSOP:

:: PPA Chairman and Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato calls out deaf politicians on Politico.com. [link]

:: Tao of Poker recaps 51 days of the 2010 WSOP. [link]

:: November Niner Joe “subiime” Cheong doesn’t think he’ll make a good role model. [link] (about 40:00 in)

:: Andy Bloch preaches online poker to the Netroots Nation. [link]

:: Cheating bots busted on PokerStars. [link]

:: Atlantic Shitty gets some cardroom competition from neighboring states. [link]

:: Article on Annie Duke‘s testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. [link]

:: 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth‘s sister is killing it at the Special Olympics. [link]

:: All of our Wicked Chops Podcasts from the 2010 WSOP. [link]

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More of Jarah Mariano from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue here.

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Online Poker News :One Last Look At The 2010 WSOP Girls On The Rail

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:05:24 +0000

Looking back, it was a fine year for Girls on the Rail.

In case you haven’t found our full gallery of Girls on the Rail from the 2010 WSOP, here’s the link. Enjoy. You can also check out all the posts with them here.

While a lot was said about this year’s crop of GOTRs not living up to past years, a few standouts like the spectacularly backsided Ass Girl 2 (Jillian) and the Norwegian hottie Rachel Nordtomme more than made up for the lack of quantity with serious quality.

Also noteworthy, in no particular order, were David William’s girlfriend, Brad Garrett’s girlfriend, Chick with a Pitbull, Super Cute Tat Girl, “Natasha” the Russian and Tatjana Pasalic the Croatian.

And of course this was pretty hot.

We’ll start the official voting for our Girls on the Rail Hall of Fame next week. For now, browse through the full gallery and let us know who’s your favorite. And if you happen to be one of the GOTRs featured this year, contact us. If you make the Hall of Fame we’ll have some prizes for you.

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Girls on the Rail Photo Dump – Day 6 at the 2010 WSOP Main Event

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Poker Tips :This Week In Poker Ep. 6

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:05:24 +0000

Latest This Week in Poker is now up on YouTube. Really solid episode breaking down the 2010 WSOP November NineTM and start of the new WPT season. We’re joined by ESPN’s Andrew Feldman, poker pro Joe Sebok, N9′er Joe “subiime” Cheong, and WPT co-host Vince

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Latest This Week in Poker is now up on YouTube.

Really solid episode breaking down the 2010 WSOP November NineTM and start of the new WPT season. We’re joined by ESPN’s Andrew Feldman, poker pro Joe Sebok, N9′er Joe “subiime” Cheong, and WPT co-host Vince Van Patten. Watch the episode above or go to the official This Week In Poker page here.

3:01 – The discussion on the November Nine begins with Joe Sebok and Andrew Feldman sharing their thoughts on where this final table stacks up to year’s past.

4:06 – Could Soi Nguyen, the sole amateur and oldest player at the table, be the Jerry Yang of this year’s November Nine? Also, you may or may not be surprised who is one of Nguyen’s good friends.

7:01 – As someone who went deep in last year’s WSOP Main Event and has made a name (“Seventhbok”) out of bubbling TV final tables, Sebok talks about how much it must sting for 10th place finisher Brandon Steven.

8:44 – The panel discusses Matt Affleck’s brutal beat that saw him eliminated in 15th place and how both he and the media reacted to it.

12:55 – We break down the good and bad of the November Nine concept.

18:22 – We discuss the opportunity ESPN missed last year with Phil Ivey, and Chops may have called Ivey an ass.

22:35 – The discussion turns to Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi including where his WSOP performance so far ranks in poker history.

25:25 – We talk about the ESPN3.com live streaming broadcasts of final tables this year and ask Feldman whether more will be done next year.

26:24 – More talk about the Grinder including his recent financial troubles and his marketing potential with a mainstream audience. Also, we break down more of the November Niners including John Dolan and the crazy Italian Filippo Candio.

34:09 – November Niner Joe “subiime” Cheong joins us via skype.

49:29 – The remainder of the show is our interview with World Poker Tour co-host Vince Van Patten. Among the topics include what’s in store for Season IX, Kimberly Lansing and the Royal Flush Girls, beating John McEnroe in tennis, how he survived as a child actor, his legendary Hollywood home games, sneaking into LA casinos as a teen to play poker and his solid run at this year’s WSOP Main Event.

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Poker Tips :Annie Duke to Testify at H.R. 2267 Internet Gambling Regulation Meeting

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:05:24 +0000

Annie Duke will speak at Wednesday’s 2pm ET House Financial Services Committee hearing on Internet gambling. Duke, testifying on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance, joins four other panelists, including (copy + paste from the House Financial Services website): Mr. Ed Williams,

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Annie Duke is in D.C. to testify before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday at 2pm ET.

Annie Duke will speak at Wednesday’s 2pm ET House Financial Services Committee hearing on Internet gambling.

Duke, testifying on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance, joins four other panelists, including (copy + paste from the House Financial Services website):

Importantly, there is no markup of the H.R. 2267 bill scheduled. So don’t expect much momentum to shift here. Just another hearing. From every source we’ve spoken with–even among the most optimistic of the bunch–no one believes anything significant is going to happen with H.R. 2267 before the mid-term elections, and we could be in a long, long grind if the Republicans take over the House in November.

Anyway, you can watch the hearings via live web stream at 2pm ET here.

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Poker Tips :ESPN Inside Deal Dishes On November Nine

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:05:24 +0000

While we were sleeping like drunk babies, the crew from ESPN’s Inside Deal managed to stay awake through the night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning to eventually shoot the above episode discussing the 2010 WSOP Main Event November NineTM. Click play above to hear what

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While we were sleeping like drunk babies, the crew from ESPN’s Inside Deal managed to stay awake through the night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning to eventually shoot the above episode discussing the 2010 WSOP Main Event November NineTM.

Click play above to hear what Laura Lane, Bernard Lee and Andrew Feldman had to say, and be sure to tune in to This Week In Poker today at 4pm PST/7om EST (here) as the aforementioned Andrew Feldman joins us, along with Joe Sebok, to talk about the November Nine and this year’s WSOP.

In completely unrelated news, photos of Trishelle Cannatella on the rail during Day 8 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event below.

2010 WSOP Main Event November Nine

2010 WSOP Main Event November Nine Set

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Poker Tips :DeepStacks Live WSOP VIP Poker Package Freeroll on Full Tilt

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:04:01 +0000

Win a chance to party with Mike Matusow (foreground) and others in Vegas over the July 4th weekend.

This is a little last minute, and if we believed in apologizing we’d apologize, so instead we’ll just say that like the Ustream feed on our latest This Week in Poker, we had some technical difficulties getting this set and leave it at that.

Anyway, it’s still WCP’s 5 Year Anniversary, and like our World Cup brackets, we’re trying to find ways to continually “give back” to you, our readers, in ways that don’t involve snapping pics of girls at the WSOP without their knowledge.

So, on Monday, June 28th at 8pm ET, we’re holding a freeroll tournament on Full Tilt to give away a VIP Poker Package to Deepstacks Live (read more about it here).

The “VIP Poker Package” includes:

Here are the freeroll tournament details:
Where: Full Tilt Poker
ID: Tournament #168809825
Date: Monday, June 28
Time: 8pm ET
Password: themouth

If you don’t have a Full Tilt account, register by clicking the below banner.

Enter: WCP DeepStacks Live WSOP VIP Poker Package Freeroll on Full Tilt

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Poker Tips :2010 WSOP Update: We Have No Lead Today

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:04:01 +0000

Carlos Mortensen built a big Space Invaders style stack in the k H.O.R.S.E. event.

We already covered Phil Hellmuth not winning his 12th bracelet, so instead of spending two minutes all sorts of time making up a hook for today, let’s just get into the updates.

:: Event #42 (,500 NLH) – With 25 remaining, James Schaaf takes the chip lead into the final day of play, stacked at 1,258,000. HIYA candidate Dean Hamrick is third overall with 858,000. Also remaining include the insufferably annoying Humberto Brenes (764,000), Mike Sowers (327,000), and Bernard Lee (48,000). Get full chip counts here.

:: Event #43 (,000 H.O.R.S.E.) – The money bubble broke right before play ended, and 23 remain. Cuong Do is the chip leader, stacked at 720,000. He would be a deep track HIYA guy, if you remember him from 2006. Other notables include but are certainly not limited to Brian Townsend (616,000), Carlos Mortensen (503,000), Nick Schulman (402,000), Scott Fischman (347,000), and where-the-eff-has-he-been-this-year Todd Brunson (274,000). Get full chip counts here.

:: Event #44 (,500 Mixed Hold’em) – A field of 507 entered with 70 surviving to Day 2. Eli Elezra ended play as chip leader. We think you know where to get chip counts.

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Online Poker News :Phil Hellmuth Does Not Win 12th WSOP Bracelet

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:04:01 +0000

Put those 12 bottles of Dom on ice a little longer…

Another close call, but Phil Hellmuth will not win his 12th WSOP bracelet today.

Hellmuth was eliminated in seventh place in Event #41 (,500 PLO 8oB). Had he won, this would’ve been Hellmuth’s first non-hold’em WSOP bracelet. For the…seventh…Hellmuth banks ,633.

When he was introduced and on many hands, we heard boos and even taunts against Hellmuth. The tournament announcer warned the crowd against taunting at one point. While Hellmuth’s TV antics are way over-the-top and probably getting worse, dude has many, many more haters than he did a couple of years ago. Crazy.

In related news, John Gottlieb is currently leading Event #41. If he were to close it out, this would not be his 12th bracelet. However, he may get some coffee, because coffee is for closers.

Follow the final table here.

UPDATE: Another Brit, Steve Jelinek, takes this one down. Jelinek defeated John Gottlieb heads-up for the title, banking 5,871.

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Online Poker Tips :Another Wicked Chops 2010 (WSOP) World Cup Fantasy Bracket Update

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:04:01 +0000

With more and more of the 2010 World Cup (USA! USA! USA!) elimination round match-ups coming into focus as first (USA! USA! USA!) and second place finishers for each group are decided (USA! USA! USA!), we also start to get a clearer picture of the leaders in the Wicked Chops 2010

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With more and more of the 2010 World Cup (USA! USA! USA!) elimination round match-ups coming into focus as first (USA! USA! USA!) and second place finishers for each group are decided (USA! USA! USA!), we also start to get a clearer picture of the leaders in the Wicked Chops 2010 (WSOP) World Cup Bracket (USA! USA! USA!).

Take a look at the leaderboard below (click to make bigger) or head over to the group page to see the full results (USA! USA! USA!):

As you can see, traegshock (USA! USA! USA!) has a slight edge over tmguchi for the top spot at the moment, and both are just clear of the group all tied in third. The last group stage matches wrap up tomorrow (USA! USA! USA!) to fill out the remaining spots in the brackets (USA! USA! USA!), then the Round of 16 gets underway on Saturday (USA! USA! USA!). That’s when the men will be separated from the boys, cos there’s no partial credit awarded in the elimination rounds (USA! USA! USA!).

Check out our list of prizes again below, and keep your eyes here for bracket updates and on Soccerati for 2010 World Cup updates (USA! USA! USA!):

And fuck you France.

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Wicked Chops 2010 (WSOP) World Cup Bracket Update

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Poker News :Play 5 Card Poker At The Carbon Poker Casino

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:48:19 +0000

If you are interested in playing both 5 Card Poker variants at one of the few USA Online Casinos we suggest giving Carbon Poker a try. This poker room and casino hybrid offers a wide range of casino and poker games, including 5 Card Draw and 5 Card Stud. They accept players from the USA [...]

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If you are interested in playing both 5 Card Poker variants at one of the few USA Online Casinos we suggest giving Carbon Poker a try. This poker room and casino hybrid offers a wide range of casino and poker games, including 5 Card Draw and 5 Card Stud. They accept players from the USA and are home to one of the most popular gaming platforms in the industry. The casino games and poker games are all included in the same software package enabling you to play Texas Hold’em and Blackjack at the same time. You’ll only need one account at Carbon Poker which is a big advantage over other casino/poker room hybrids.

No other online poker room offers 5 Card Draw and 5 Card Stud. The traffic for these games are still somewhat low but you’ll be able to find small-mid stakes tables around the clock.

The first deposit bonus at Carbon Poker consists of a 100% match bonus up to 0. In addition to this easy to clear bonus you’ll receive tickets to several different new player freerolls. PDC Poker is well known for hosting the most freerolls out of all the poker rooms. To claim this exclusive bonus simply follow the directions below.

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