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Will the WSOP Stem the Losses on the Strip?
Prior to Harrah's acquisition of the WSOP, the Las Vegas tournament was held in the spring. Harrah's shifted the large-drawing event closer to the summer, a traditionally slow period for the desert gaming locale. But with a sluggish...
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Prior to Harrah's acquisition of the WSOP, the Las Vegas tournament was held in the spring. Harrah's shifted the large-drawing event closer to the summer, a traditionally slow period for the desert gaming locale. But with a sluggish...
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WSOP: History -- 2007
The 2007 World Series of Poker suffered a serious setback before it even began. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement act was passed into law on September 30, 2006, and it would seriously cut into the number of players that was supplied by online card rooms. The surreal tournament size of...
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The 2007 World Series of Poker suffered a serious setback before it even began. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement act was passed into law on September 30, 2006, and it would seriously cut into the number of players that was supplied by online card rooms. The surreal tournament size of...
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WSOP Final Nine Set; November Awaits
After almost two weeks of play, the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event has been whittled down ...
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After almost two weeks of play, the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event has been whittled down ...
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Nikolay Evdakov Breaks WSOP Cashes Record
The 2008 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award may have gone to Erick Lindgren, but ...
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The 2008 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award may have gone to Erick Lindgren, but ...
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Bodog Poker offers its biggest guarantee
The poker site plans to host a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool tournament Sunday, Aug 10, at 4 p.m. ET. The tournament will have a $250+$20 buy-in, but qualifiers have already begun for as little as $1. "We're thrilled to give online poker players the chance to win big at Bodog with $250,000 in guaranteed prize money, the largest ever in Bodog history," says Morris Mohawk Gaming Group CEO Alwyn Morris. "With daily qualifiers running for as low as $1, there's no reason for anyone to miss out on this chance to make Bodog history and some serious cash." Normally the biggest guaranteed tournament Bodog hosts is the $100,000 weekly guaranteed tournament, which will be replaced by the $250,000 guarantee for that one day in August. "The one-time, history-making tournament on Aug. 10 is a great opportunity for online poker players to take advantage of Bodog's new and improved resizabl3e poker client, which goes live on July 17," said Bodog Poker. Bodog Poker's latest version will feature full-screen mode, resizable tables, embedded chat, game details and on-demand player tools. For more information about these and other promotions the poker site has to offer, visit Bodog Poker. Related Articles: Bodog guarantees ((WSOP)) qualifiers adrenaline rushBodog Poker testing resizable tablesBodog offers more Main Event seatsVisit PokerListings.com
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The poker site plans to host a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool tournament Sunday, Aug 10, at 4 p.m. ET. The tournament will have a $250+$20 buy-in, but qualifiers have already begun for as little as $1. "We're thrilled to give online poker players the chance to win big at Bodog with $250,000 in guaranteed prize money, the largest ever in Bodog history," says Morris Mohawk Gaming Group CEO Alwyn Morris. "With daily qualifiers running for as low as $1, there's no reason for anyone to miss out on this chance to make Bodog history and some serious cash." Normally the biggest guaranteed tournament Bodog hosts is the $100,000 weekly guaranteed tournament, which will be replaced by the $250,000 guarantee for that one day in August. "The one-time, history-making tournament on Aug. 10 is a great opportunity for online poker players to take advantage of Bodog's new and improved resizabl3e poker client, which goes live on July 17," said Bodog Poker. Bodog Poker's latest version will feature full-screen mode, resizable tables, embedded chat, game details and on-demand player tools. For more information about these and other promotions the poker site has to offer, visit Bodog Poker. Related Articles: Bodog guarantees ((WSOP)) qualifiers adrenaline rushBodog Poker testing resizable tablesBodog offers more Main Event seatsVisit PokerListings.com
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Paddy Power opens betting on WSOP winner
On Monday, the 2008 WSOP Main Event played down to its top nine players, but now fans will have to wait until November to see the final table play down to a winner. In the meantime, they can take a look at the players and place a bet on who they think is the most likely to win it all. Paddy Power is laying odds as follows: Dennis Phillips: 4/1Ivan Demidov: 4/1Scott Montgomery: 9/2Peter Eastgate: 9/2Ylon Schwartz: 8/1Darus Suharto: 17/2David Rheem: 10/1Craig Marquis: 10/1Kelly Kim: 50/1 (Odds are subject to change.) The site also plans to take bets on the nationality of the winner and the age of the winner. If you'd like to read about the final nine, check out the article here, or you can read up on how they made it to the final table in the Live Tournaments section. Paddy Power Poker has plenty of other things to offer poker players as well. For instance, players who sign up at the poker site through PokerListings.com are eligible for a $600 sign-up bonus at 150% match for all new players making a deposit. Players who sign up through PokerListings are also eligible to receive a free version of the Paddy Power Poker ultimate poker odds calculator. For more information, visit Paddy Power Poker.Visit PokerListings.com
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On Monday, the 2008 WSOP Main Event played down to its top nine players, but now fans will have to wait until November to see the final table play down to a winner. In the meantime, they can take a look at the players and place a bet on who they think is the most likely to win it all. Paddy Power is laying odds as follows: Dennis Phillips: 4/1Ivan Demidov: 4/1Scott Montgomery: 9/2Peter Eastgate: 9/2Ylon Schwartz: 8/1Darus Suharto: 17/2David Rheem: 10/1Craig Marquis: 10/1Kelly Kim: 50/1 (Odds are subject to change.) The site also plans to take bets on the nationality of the winner and the age of the winner. If you'd like to read about the final nine, check out the article here, or you can read up on how they made it to the final table in the Live Tournaments section. Paddy Power Poker has plenty of other things to offer poker players as well. For instance, players who sign up at the poker site through PokerListings.com are eligible for a $600 sign-up bonus at 150% match for all new players making a deposit. Players who sign up through PokerListings are also eligible to receive a free version of the Paddy Power Poker ultimate poker odds calculator. For more information, visit Paddy Power Poker.Visit PokerListings.com
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2008 WSOP: Introducing the November Nine
The final nine, dubbed the November Nine, battled their way through a field of 6,844 entrants, and on Monday they rose to the top of the final 27 players to take their positions at the final table. The cream of the crop this year and their chip counts are: Dennis Phillips - $26,295,000Ivan Demidov - $24,400,000Scott Montgomery - $19,690,000Peter Eastgate - $18,375,000Ylon Schwartz - $12,525,000Darus Suharto - $12,520,000David Rheem - $10,230,000Craig Marquis - $10,210,000Kelly Kim - $2,620,000 Hailing from St. Louis, Mo., Dennis Phillips is the oldest of the remaining players and also the chip leader. The 53-year old is an amateur poker player who is a full-time account manager for a commercial trucking company. Phillips also has some poker success on his resume already. He came in ninth place in the 2007 WSOP Circuit Grand Tunica $500 No-Limit Hold'em event. His $2,386 cash there will be massively overshadowed by any money he walks away with from the Main Event final table in November. He also won his way into the Main Event through a satellite at Harrah's Casino in St. Louis. Ivan Demidov is only a couple million behind Phillips in the chip count, but away from the poker table the two are worlds apart. The 27-year-old Demidov hails from Moscow, Russia, and is a professional poker player. Demidov cashed deep in a WSOP event already this year, coming in 11th place in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. He also has a final table finish in a 2006 Russian Poker Championship event as a third place finish in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em evening event during the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2007. Scott Montgomery is another professional poker player at the final table. His poker resume looks pretty blank prior to 2008, but this has been a good year for the Canadian. In February he made the final table of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, and he has already cashed in three other WSOP events as well. When he wasn't busy at the Rio with the WSOP, he also headed over to the Bellagio where he made the final table of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em event of the Bellagio Cup IV. Montgomery put up cash to get into the Main Event, and it looks like his investment is going to pay off since he'll walk away with at least $900,670. The youngest player at the table will be Peter Eastgate, who is the only other player aside from Demidov who had to travel from outside North America to be at the final table. He comes from Odense, Denmark, where he is a professional poker player. He too paid into the Main Event with cash and will be seeing some hefty return on his investment. His prior experience includes playing the Party Poker Poker Million V and Poker Million VI, a ninth place finish in the 2007 Paddy Power Irish Open, and cashing in the European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open. Should Eastgate win the Main Event, he would take over Phil Hellmuth's record as the youngest ever Main Event winner in Las Vegas. Ylon Schwartz, from Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the five Americans at the final table this year. The 38-year-old is a former professional chess player who discovered that he could make more money playing poker than he was making hustling chess games in New York City's public parks. He has been playing poker professionally for several years now and has 12 prior WSOP cashes to his name already, including a 15th-place finish in this year's $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. When asked how he made it this far in the tournament, Schwartz told PokerLIstings.com in an interview: "Pretty much just picking up small pots. I think I had one huge pot and basically just waited for people to make mistakes. And you know, at the World Series you've got a lot of novices, so they're bound to overvalue what they have. That happened a lot for me, so I was able to exploit that." The second Canadian at the Main Event final table is Darus Suharto, from Toronto, Ontario. The 39-year-old accountant is an amateur poker player who won his entry into the Main Event through a satellite. After coming in 448th place during the 2006 WSOP Main Event, Suharto has definitely topped his previous best cash in major poker tournament. No doubt he'll be happy to put his MBA from Indiana University to use figuring out how best to invest his money when the final table is played out. David "Chino" Rheem is probably the most well-known of the players at the final table this year. The 28-year-old professional player is from Los Angeles and has five prior cashes at the World Series. One of those is a final table in the 2008 $5,000 Limit/No-Limit Hold'em event where he came in fifth place. He too paid cash to get into the Main Event rather than winning his way in through the satellites at the Rio or through an online poker site. Another contender for youngest Main Event winner on record is Craig Marquis, 23, from Arlington, Texas. Marquis is a college student who's only been playing poker for about 18 months. Marquis had two cashes in the WSOP last year and cashed in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout this year, but nothing compares to the money he'll take home after making the final table of the Main Event. Up until the Main Event, Marquis had been having a pretty rough series. In his interview with PokerListings after Day 6, he said he'd joked with his roommates that he was just saving it all up for the Main Event, and then it ended up working out well for him. The short stack at the final table will be Kelly Kim from Whittier, Calif. Kim is a former business analyst who converted to becoming a professional poker player. Kim has a long list of cashes in events in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas area, but he has yet to post a major event win on his record. He'll now have four months to study-up and practice ways to play his short stack to victory as the players take their break before play begins again Nov. 9. The November Nine will play down to the final two on Nov. 9, and then the heads-up battle will take place starting at 10 p.m. PT on Nov. 10. The winner is expected to be crowned in the early morning hours of Nov. 11, with ESPN broadcasting the final that evening. "The winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event has always become an instant celebrity," said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. "This year, all nine players who make the final table will become household names - and are guaranteed life-changing prize money to go with their fame and place in poker history." The final nine will play for a total of $32,633,446, with first place earning more than nine million and all but the ninth place finisher walking away at least a millionaire. ESPN will air a one-hour special on the final nine players Nov. 4 at 9 p.m. ET. Coverage of the Main event begins Sept. 2 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN with two-hour episodes running each Tuesday until the Nov. 11 finale. For more information about how the players made it to the final table through the 11 days of the Main Event, visit the 2008 WSOP Live Tournaments section.Visit PokerListings.com
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The final nine, dubbed the November Nine, battled their way through a field of 6,844 entrants, and on Monday they rose to the top of the final 27 players to take their positions at the final table. The cream of the crop this year and their chip counts are: Dennis Phillips - $26,295,000Ivan Demidov - $24,400,000Scott Montgomery - $19,690,000Peter Eastgate - $18,375,000Ylon Schwartz - $12,525,000Darus Suharto - $12,520,000David Rheem - $10,230,000Craig Marquis - $10,210,000Kelly Kim - $2,620,000 Hailing from St. Louis, Mo., Dennis Phillips is the oldest of the remaining players and also the chip leader. The 53-year old is an amateur poker player who is a full-time account manager for a commercial trucking company. Phillips also has some poker success on his resume already. He came in ninth place in the 2007 WSOP Circuit Grand Tunica $500 No-Limit Hold'em event. His $2,386 cash there will be massively overshadowed by any money he walks away with from the Main Event final table in November. He also won his way into the Main Event through a satellite at Harrah's Casino in St. Louis. Ivan Demidov is only a couple million behind Phillips in the chip count, but away from the poker table the two are worlds apart. The 27-year-old Demidov hails from Moscow, Russia, and is a professional poker player. Demidov cashed deep in a WSOP event already this year, coming in 11th place in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. He also has a final table finish in a 2006 Russian Poker Championship event as a third place finish in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em evening event during the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2007. Scott Montgomery is another professional poker player at the final table. His poker resume looks pretty blank prior to 2008, but this has been a good year for the Canadian. In February he made the final table of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, and he has already cashed in three other WSOP events as well. When he wasn't busy at the Rio with the WSOP, he also headed over to the Bellagio where he made the final table of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em event of the Bellagio Cup IV. Montgomery put up cash to get into the Main Event, and it looks like his investment is going to pay off since he'll walk away with at least $900,670. The youngest player at the table will be Peter Eastgate, who is the only other player aside from Demidov who had to travel from outside North America to be at the final table. He comes from Odense, Denmark, where he is a professional poker player. He too paid into the Main Event with cash and will be seeing some hefty return on his investment. His prior experience includes playing the Party Poker Poker Million V and Poker Million VI, a ninth place finish in the 2007 Paddy Power Irish Open, and cashing in the European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open. Should Eastgate win the Main Event, he would take over Phil Hellmuth's record as the youngest ever Main Event winner in Las Vegas. Ylon Schwartz, from Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the five Americans at the final table this year. The 38-year-old is a former professional chess player who discovered that he could make more money playing poker than he was making hustling chess games in New York City's public parks. He has been playing poker professionally for several years now and has 12 prior WSOP cashes to his name already, including a 15th-place finish in this year's $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. When asked how he made it this far in the tournament, Schwartz told PokerLIstings.com in an interview: "Pretty much just picking up small pots. I think I had one huge pot and basically just waited for people to make mistakes. And you know, at the World Series you've got a lot of novices, so they're bound to overvalue what they have. That happened a lot for me, so I was able to exploit that." The second Canadian at the Main Event final table is Darus Suharto, from Toronto, Ontario. The 39-year-old accountant is an amateur poker player who won his entry into the Main Event through a satellite. After coming in 448th place during the 2006 WSOP Main Event, Suharto has definitely topped his previous best cash in major poker tournament. No doubt he'll be happy to put his MBA from Indiana University to use figuring out how best to invest his money when the final table is played out. David "Chino" Rheem is probably the most well-known of the players at the final table this year. The 28-year-old professional player is from Los Angeles and has five prior cashes at the World Series. One of those is a final table in the 2008 $5,000 Limit/No-Limit Hold'em event where he came in fifth place. He too paid cash to get into the Main Event rather than winning his way in through the satellites at the Rio or through an online poker site. Another contender for youngest Main Event winner on record is Craig Marquis, 23, from Arlington, Texas. Marquis is a college student who's only been playing poker for about 18 months. Marquis had two cashes in the WSOP last year and cashed in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout this year, but nothing compares to the money he'll take home after making the final table of the Main Event. Up until the Main Event, Marquis had been having a pretty rough series. In his interview with PokerListings after Day 6, he said he'd joked with his roommates that he was just saving it all up for the Main Event, and then it ended up working out well for him. The short stack at the final table will be Kelly Kim from Whittier, Calif. Kim is a former business analyst who converted to becoming a professional poker player. Kim has a long list of cashes in events in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas area, but he has yet to post a major event win on his record. He'll now have four months to study-up and practice ways to play his short stack to victory as the players take their break before play begins again Nov. 9. The November Nine will play down to the final two on Nov. 9, and then the heads-up battle will take place starting at 10 p.m. PT on Nov. 10. The winner is expected to be crowned in the early morning hours of Nov. 11, with ESPN broadcasting the final that evening. "The winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event has always become an instant celebrity," said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. "This year, all nine players who make the final table will become household names - and are guaranteed life-changing prize money to go with their fame and place in poker history." The final nine will play for a total of $32,633,446, with first place earning more than nine million and all but the ninth place finisher walking away at least a millionaire. ESPN will air a one-hour special on the final nine players Nov. 4 at 9 p.m. ET. Coverage of the Main event begins Sept. 2 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN with two-hour episodes running each Tuesday until the Nov. 11 finale. For more information about how the players made it to the final table through the 11 days of the Main Event, visit the 2008 WSOP Live Tournaments section.Visit PokerListings.com
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2008 WSOP $10,000 NLHE World Championship, Day 7: Dennis Phillips Maintains Lead, Heads ...
6,844 players started the 2008 WSOP Championship for the second largest field in WSOP history. After a long and grueling Day 7, there were nine. Dennis Phillips had the lead going into Day 7, and when the last chip was counted...
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6,844 players started the 2008 WSOP Championship for the second largest field in WSOP history. After a long and grueling Day 7, there were nine. Dennis Phillips had the lead going into Day 7, and when the last chip was counted...
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Final Table Set For 2008 WSOP
After weeks of preparation and play, the final table has been set for the 2008 World Series of Poker.
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After weeks of preparation and play, the final table has been set for the 2008 World Series of Poker.
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Dr. Pauly at the WSOP: Online Pros at the WSOP -- Five Young Guns
Just before the 2008 World Series of Poker began at the end of May, I read an article in 'BLUFF Magazine' written by managing editor Lance Bradley. He listed five online players who were 21 years old at the start of the WSOP...
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Just before the 2008 World Series of Poker began at the end of May, I read an article in 'BLUFF Magazine' written by managing editor Lance Bradley. He listed five online players who were 21 years old at the start of the WSOP...
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