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Barney Frank’s Online Poker Bill Passes Through Committee

A victory for the online poker community today, as Barney Frank’s pro-poker legislation took an important step toward becoming law.

Chipping Up: Five Poker Axioms We Forget Mid-Game

In this installment of Chipping Up, Brandon walks through five essential truths about poker that it’s easy to forget mid-hand.

ANZPT Queenstown: Final table, levels 21&22 (blinds 8000-16000, ante 2000)

8:43pm: Zmukic teetering With the limits up, Vesko Zmukic is now right on the edge of being classically short-stacked. He did just manage to pick up 45,000 chips from Andrew Watson to increase his count to about 300,000

WSOP 2010 November Nine Field is Set

The November Nine have been determined in the 2010 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) Main Event. After eight grueling days of play spread out over two weeks, nine players are left standing in poker’s most prestigious tournament. Jonathan Duhamel leads the way entering the four-month break with a stack of 55,375,000. Players busted at a rapid-fire pace early on Saturday and, as the group cleared the dinner break around 8:15pm PT, the short stacks moved all-in in earnest. In a major pot that brewed shortly after players had taken their seats after filling their bellies, Matt “ mcmatto ” Affleck hit the skids in 15th place for $500,000.

WSOP Main Event Day 8: The waiting game

You may have noticed that things have gone quiet for some time. Since the “last” table began there has been a drought of the all-in excitement that occupied us earlier. Instead, and who can blame them, the players are in no mood to bust out early and give up a spot in the November Nine

Matt Affleck Rebounded Quickly

Matt Affleck's elimination was brutal to watch but he's on the mend… If you’re following the 2010 WSOP Main Event on Twitter, you saw a flurry of “that sucked to watch” after Matt Affleck ‘s elimination

WSOP Main Event Day 8: Chip lead changes with 19 to go

As play started today the running theme was the domination of the Europeans.

2010 WSOP November Nine

The 2010 WSOP November Nine will mark their place in history and become instant poker celebrities, along with enjoying the perks of what promises to be high value endorsement deals.  Play began on July 17th at noon from the Rio at the World Series of Poker Main Event with 27 runners left in the world’s biggest tournament. The first big hand of the day came on the very first hand as Ronnie Bardah shoved on the button for 2.215 million with both the small and big blind folded.  On the first hand for Michael “ The Grinder ” Mizrachi, he 3bet Redmon Lee which elicited a fold and showed off pocket Kings. About 30 minutes into Day 7, Johnny Lodden , a Norwegian pro sponsored by PokerStars , moved in which amounted to 1.47 million.  He was looked up by Matt Affleck who flipped over A-T offsuit against Lodden’s pocket Eights.  The board came K-Q-2-T-7 which paired up Affleck and sent Lodden to the rail in 27th place for $317,161. The next casualty of the day was Matthew Bucaric who finished in 26th place.  On a flop of J-8-7 with two hearts, Bucaric got the money in with pocket Nines with one heart.  He was looked up by 8-6 with two hearts that made a flush on the turn and held up to send Bucaric out of the tournament. Mads Wissing came into the day playing some great poker but in the end, it was one great read and one horrible bad beat that took him out.  Wissing checked the big blind with T-8 with two spades and the flop came 6-3-T.  William Thorson , who had limped in from the small blind, check raised and was looked up by Wissing’s top pair as Thorson revealed J-3 for bottom pair.  The turn, however, proved fateful at Thorson spiked a Jack and improved to two pair which eliminated Wissing in 25th place

Jerry Payne (sandler1860) – Poker Player Profile

A longtime online poker player, Jerry “sandler1860” Payne was one of the final 78 players in the 2010 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) Main Event. The Centerville, Ohio native will log his first Las Vegas WSOP cash as a result after turning in four in the money finishes in Circuit Events. Payne’s big break came in March 2010, when he final tabled the Hollywood Poker Open World Poker Tour ( WPT ) stop, cashing for $89,000 after a sixth place finish

Joseph Cheong (subiime) – Poker Player Profile

One of the liveliest virtual rails of the 2010 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) went to Joseph Cheong , who can be found perusing the virtual felts of the world’s largest online poker sites under the screen name “subiime.” Cheong hails from La Mirada, California and took down a Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) tournament in May 2009 for a hefty sum of $55,000. Posters on sites like PocketFives.com railed Cheong in earnest throughout the waning moments of the Main Event as he entered Day 7 with a stack of 5.56 million, good for the 10th largest tally in the Amazon Room. Cheong turned in two in the money finishes in 2010 WSOP events prior to his epic Main Event run, including a 29th place showing in a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed affair for $17,000. Cheong is a WSOP Circuit gold ring winner, having taken down a $340 No Limit Hold’em tournament at Harrah’s Rincon for $17,000 in March 2010