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Doyle’s Shortest Books And “The Grinder” Returns Home From Poker In Twitter
Jul 26th
The weekend from poker players on Twitter was dominated by Doyle Brunson ’s latest fun and games. “The Godfather of Poker” decided to start a Twitter conversation with his followers regarding the “World’s Shortest Books.” After throwing out some of his own personal ideas ( “Shortest books…“Meat” by Daniel Negreanu ” and “Shortest book…“How Not To Arouse Men” by Amanda Leatherman ” ), Doyle then opened up the floodgates to his Twitterpeeps. The suggestions from Brunson’s followers ran the gamut from jabs at fellow poker players ( “World’s Shortest Books: How to be ugly, by @liv_boeree” and “Worlds shortest book “How To Win At Cash Games” by Jean Robert Bellande” were two of the funnier ones) to picks on other sports figures ( “Shortest book….GOLF my Way by Charles Barkley,” “World’s Shortest Book: “Baby Names,” By George Foreman” ). Politics and celebrities even got into the mix ( “Worlds shortest book: “How to maintain your innocence” by Jenna Jameson,” “Worlds shortest books: Logic by The Congress” ) in a Twitterthread that ran hundreds of Tweets long. “Getting hundreds of different versions of Worlds Shortest Books,” Doyle tweeted as he dispersed through retweet his favorites. “I’m picking out the ones I think are funny.” Apparently some didn’t like Brunson’s fun weekend activity as he tweeted, “I’ve lost over 300 followers since I started shortest books
The Online Railbird Report: Familiar Faces Return to Action
Jul 23rd
The World Series of Poker is behind us, the nosebleed-stakes crowd has shaken off their hangovers, and action is beginning to pick back up online. After some long absences, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius, and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahames…
UKIPT Brighton: Oliver Schaffmann is our day 1b chipleader
Jul 16th
Day two always seems to be a tougher field yet players always clamour to sign themselves up for it. Is it that rest day inbetween that they don’t want? The extra day of expenses? Whatever it is we he had 143 players enter today, some 27 more than day 1a, making a total of 259 runners for this inaugural £1,000 UKIPT Brighton main event. The young guns and pros turned up in their droves creating some absolutely filthy table draws with the likes of Team PokerStars Pros Jude Ainsworth, Vicky Coren and Julian Thew, well known faces such as Neil Channing, Liam Flood, Fintan Gavin, Joe Grech, as well as the online brigade of Toby Lewis, Chris Brammer, John Eames and EPT Deauville winner Jake Cody. Not all were destined to make it through the day though.
The Aussie Millions on GSN: Shak Defeats Ivey for $100K Title
Jul 14th
There aren’t too many poker players who can say that they’ve gone heads-up with Phil Ivey and come away with the best of it. However, with his victory in the $100,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em High Roller event at the 2010 Aussie Millions, Dan…
Dan Bilzerian Interview with Poker News Daily
Jul 12th
This year’s World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) brought anyone and everyone from the industry, including Victory Poker pro Dan Bilzerian , whose 180th place finish in last year’s feature tournament turned heads around the globe. We caught up with Bilzerian on the floor of the Amazon Room during Day 1 of his Main Event run. Poker News Daily: Tell us how your day has been going so far. Dan Bilzerian: I wasn’t going to play today, but my brother [ Adam Bilzerian ] talked me into it and I’m doing pretty well. I have around 80,000, so it has been a good start to the day so far.
WSOP Main Event Day 2B: Glorious summer for Mayor Heitmann
Jul 11th
If you believe Jan Heitmann this is his first good summer at the World Series of Poker. After seven World Series the German Team PokerStars Pro is finally getting the results he knows he’s capable of and that spirit was summed up a Tweet a few days ago: Ich bin der Bürgermeister von Valuetown. The success he’s having includes winning a re-buy event at the Bellagio Cup last month and reaching the final table of a tournament at the Venetian yesterday – also known as Valuetown – where Heitmann is mayor. Heitmann didn’t want to take three days off between day one and two at the main event so instead kept the juices flowing and got stuck into the action on the strip, finishing fifth. It’s form he’s brought back with him to the Rio
WSOP Main Event Day 2A: A glimpse at David Williams’ crazy world
Jul 9th
What do one mother, one mother’s friend eating a sandwich, one cameraman, one sound guy, one producer, two chip counters, two dealers on break, eight poker players (seated), three or four poker players (standing) and this reporter have in common? Ordinarily, not a great deal. But for about 15 minutes towards the end of the first level of play today, we were all captivated by David Williams
WSOP Blog: Emmitt Smith kicks off Day 1D with "Shuffle up and play"
Jul 8th
The final starting day of the 2010 main event began with everyone standing and applauding as Emmitt Smith was introduced. “How ’bout them Cowboys,” was shouted from the tables, and Smith replied in kind, then looked out at the crowd, proclaimed his excitement and let out, “Shuffle up and play!” A good laugh echoed through the room before Smith grabbed the microphone again and said, “Shuffle up and deal!” Smith then headed over to his table, sat down for action and began his Day 1 just like every…
WSOP Main Event: Day 1C Level Two Mid-Level Update
Jul 7th
Giang and Esfandiari are living it up at their Main Event table Earlier today, we posted a story in which newly minted Team PokerStars Pro David Williams offered some sage wisdom to newcomers at the WSOP Main Event. We think you should probably listen to him considering the guy is already up to 127,000 chips three
From the WSOP Floor: July 3, 2010
Jul 4th
2010 World Series of Poker Attendance, The World Series of Barbecue “WSOB”, Deepstacks Live, and Ante Up for Africa are things that have been going on around the WSOP. 2010 WSOP Attendance Shatters Previous Records: With two events remaining on the schedule the WSOP attendance record of 60,875 entrants, from 2009, has been surpassed and looks to be shattered by the end of the series.
