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Poker In the White House?
Posted: Monday, September 24 2007 4:28:34
By: Gene Bromberg
Not that we're endorsing a particular Presidential candidate, but an article today in the Associated Press goes [...]
Channelling Your Inner Phil
Posted: Saturday, September 22 2007 2:13:01
By: Gene Bromberg
We're going to have all sorts of fun things for folks to do down in Aruba (in addition to the poker, of course). One thing we're going to do is have a video [...]
London, WSOPE, Cleansing and Annette_15
Posted: Friday, September 21 2007 3:44:01
By: Annie Duke
I just got back from London where, for some weird reason, my computer didn't work. I say weird because when I got back to the states it worked just find. Very bizarre. I have no [...]
Get Ready For Your Closeup
Posted: Friday, September 21 2007 3:21:39
By: Gene Bromberg
A week and a day until the 2007 Aruba Poker Classic begins. I'm slowly accumulating all the gear I'll need to [...]
One In A Billion
Posted: Wednesday, September 19 2007 9:06:11
By: Gene Bromberg
In an article that ran in, of all places, Agence France-Presse, [...]
More Reason To Hope
Posted: Tuesday, September 18 2007 7:18:35
By: Gene Bromberg
There's an article in Newsweek (Newsweek International, but still) that discusses the WTO claim filed by Antigua [...]
Dont Rent That Jet-Ski!
Posted: Monday, September 17 2007 12:22:23
By: Gene Bromberg
It's a busy time for the tournament poker player. The World Series of Poker-Europe has just ended, Day 2 of the Borgata Poker Open is just under way, and on [...]
Big News Out Of London
Posted: Sunday, September 16 2007 8:47:41
By: Gene Bromberg
Annette Obrestad has won the Main Event of the World Series of Poker-Europe. This is [...]
The Good News, and the Better News
Posted: Sunday, September 16 2007 8:03:49
By: Gene Bromberg
Here's the good news--Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad is at the final table of the WSOP-E Main Event, which means that she probably won't be able to play in our $200,000 Sunday Guaranteed Tournament. [...]
Bad Flop
Posted: Saturday, September 15 2007 12:21:13
By: Gene Bromberg
With her stack dwindling, Annie Duke and Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad saw a flop of As-Ks-5s. Annie moved all-in, Annette instantly called. Annie held Ah-Jd for top pair, while Annette had...Qs-7s [...]
Told You It'd Be A Long Day
Posted: Friday, September 14 2007 10:56:39
By: Gene Bromberg
Play has concluded for the day at the World Series of Poker-Europe Main Event (whew), and with the field winnowed down to thirty-two Annie Duke sits with 286,000 in chips, good enough for 10th place. [...]
A Long Day For Annie, A Short Day for Phil
Posted: Friday, September 14 2007 10:26:21
By: Gene Bromberg
Phil Hellmuth arrived with little fanfare for Day 3 of the WSOP-E Main Event--no double-decker bus plastered with his visage, no coterie of models in costume to escort him to his seat. He showed up [...]
Annie's Up, Phil's Down
Posted: Thursday, September 13 2007 11:16:00
By: Gene Bromberg
Day 2 of the WSOP-E Main Event was split into two flights, just as Day 1 was, and so once again Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth took to the felt in the hopes of building a big stack. Annie worked [...]
London Calling
Posted: Wednesday, September 12 2007 11:20:12
By: Gene Bromberg
While reading the live coverage of the WSOP-E Main Event, we learn that today is Annie [...]
Once Again, The Phil Hellmuth Show
Posted: Tuesday, September 11 2007 2:22:16
By: Gene Bromberg
As you know, Phil Hellmuth made a grand entrance to the World Series of Poker Main [...]
It's A Sunday In September...
Posted: Sunday, September 09 2007 11:31:02
By: Gene Bromberg
And that can only mean one thing! That's right, our $200,000 Sunday Guaranteed Tournament! The only reason [...]
Big Event, Little Field
Posted: Friday, September 07 2007 7:50:58
By: Gene Bromberg
I was surprised to see that the field for the first event of the World Series of Poker-Europe was a modest 105. I thought there would be hundreds of European online [...]
I'd Like A Double Helping of Hypocrisy, Please!
Posted: Thursday, September 06 2007 1:38:58
By: Gene Bromberg
Via The Agitator, Radley Balko's blog, we learn that Rep. Ralph Hall (R) is holding a fundraiser in the near future. [...]
A New Chapter
Posted: Wednesday, September 05 2007 3:48:45
By: Gene Bromberg
Tomorrow, for the first time, the World Series of Poker will live up to the first word in it's name. The first bracelet event held outside Las Vegas will be the £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. tournament that [...]
Aruba Spared Felix's Wrath
Posted: Tuesday, September 04 2007 8:17:38
By: Gene Bromberg
September is hurricane season, but Aruba is rarely troubled by the big cylonic storms that churn through the Atlantic and Caribbean. It's far enough south that most tropical storms pass by without [...]
This Time, Not So Lucky
Posted: Monday, September 03 2007 11:34:20
By: Gene Bromberg
It might have been coincidence, but during the World Series of Poker it seemed like Jordan Morgan made a run in every event I covered. He cashed four times and I'm pretty sure I was there scribbling [...]
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock
Posted: Sunday, September 02 2007 4:30:17
By: Gene Bromberg
Just a reminder that you have just 30 minutes to enter this week's $200,000 Sunday Guaranteed Tournament. And that gives us just enough time for another reminder--if you happen to knock out Jim [...]
