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WSOP 2013: Last of the letter days
You can almost tell by the number of people in the hallway this morning what type of day this is, the type where any journey along the hallway is going to take twice as long, and the short cut you know...
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WSOP 2103: Innerpsy will not be ignored
Today, I imagine Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov as a child. He's calling for his mother, but she's not listening. So, he makes a little more noise. Still, she doesn't listen. So, he starts banging some...
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WSOP 2013: Puchkov best prepared for a main event fight
It became known as the Battle of Fairmont Hill. On the last day of EPT Monaco the PokerStars Blog team waited outside their hotel for a taxi that would take them to the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel where the...
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WSOP 2013: Team Pro Blink-analysis
Some years back, pop-science guy Malcolm Gladwell wrote the book "Blink," the premise of which is that, say, somebody like me could process a lot of input really quickly and probably come to the right...
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WSOP 2013: Lost: Dog. Answers to the name "Ruffles"
They've been hard to miss this week, girls dressed in vests, shorts and knee length socks handing out bags of Ruffles Crispy Fries to anyone who'll stomach them; their corporate right as one of the...
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WSOP 2013: This or That with Ville Wahlbeck
This was not Team PokerStars Pro Ville Wahlbeck's best WSOP. As play continues on Day 2C, Wahlbeck is already out. Nevertheless, he has a long history in this city. For the better part of a decade, the...
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WSOP 2013: Spending the dinner break the old fashioned way
Players are back from their dinner break after 90 minutes spent running to somewhere that has a free table, eating fast food as quickly as possible, and then running, via the Pepto-Bismol store, back...
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WSOP 2013: Back to reality after the caddy swim
There is a red carpet that leads up the steps to the Rio. It's shaded by a white tent affixed with water-misters for hot days. The red path leads all the way up the steps to the Rio, riches, and gold...
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WSOP 2013: Team Pros, Team Online, hundreds more head to Day 3
For the past five days, the WSOP house has been one that's divided. With Day 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A/B, and 2C, it's often felt like a bad game of Wheel of Fortune. At no point have all the 2013 World Series of...
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Mud wrestling with Liv Boeree: Heads Up with Stapes, part one
Okay, admit it, the headline grabbed you and if you're still reading this rather than scrolling down to click through to the video then you should give youself a pat on the back. You're obviously the...
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Celina Lin's perfect home
About a year ago I started looking for an apartment to buy. I looked at three possible markets: Melbourne, Macau and Hong Kong. Since I spend most of my time in Macau, that was the natural choice. It...
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My British poker trip: UKIPT, shopping, and Stapes
Besides playing a lot online lately (I love playing the Women's Tuesday and Sunday), I still enjoy feeling real poker chips and cards in my hands. It was time for some live poker again. Luckily, a few...
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Double Sunday qualifiers for Eureka Bulgaria
This Sunday is your best chance for a late run into the Eureka Bulgaria €1,100 Main Event. All guarantees are doubled this Sunday 14 July with eight full €2,000 packages up for grabs, all of which...
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WSOP 2013: Together at last on Day 3
You're tired, grumpy, you're not sleeping well, the jetlag still hasn't completely worn off and you're hungry at odd times of the day. But, you're still in the World Series main event, and happy about...
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WSOP 2013: Passport, please
Times change. I know that, and I'm willing to accept that fact. There was a time when PokerStars was sending more than 1,000 qualifiers here to the WSOP Main Event, and I won't lie and say I don't miss...
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WSOP 2013: Red angels
We debate what happens to the human spirit when the lightning storm in our brains goes black, whether lily-white angels carry our souls to heaven on pillows stuffed with down, whether we just blink...
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WSOP 2013: Is it wrong to start making friends?
Something didn't sit well with me as I passed the lobster pool outside Buzio's restaurant on the Rio Casino floor. I was on my way back from the sports book where my $2 favourite had just cantered in...
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WSOP 2013: Post-bubble cull claims Haxton, Cody
If you have never seen the few hours that follow the bubble bursting at the World Series of Poker, it's a sight to behold. It's as if P.T. Barnum put up his "This way to the egress" sign and everyone...
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WSOP 2013: As Luske plays on, the room rises according to Doyle
Vladimir Geshkenbein was out of his seat. He was trying to get a drink of some sort, asking the man with a tray or waters and Red Bull for something else. If history is anything to go by the Snowfest...
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WSOP 2013: ElkY makes his public departure
I reported on Bertrand Grospellier's exit from the World Series main event in 2006 when, as a recent convert to poker from professional video gaming, the Frenchman, fighting out of South Korea, was...
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