When you are playing at the World Series of Poker Main Event, there are ten people left in the event, and you are sitting on a very precarious bubble, a pair of Aces showing up in your hand would seem like a gift from Lady Luck herself. The problem with this is that Ms. Luck also seems to have a bit of a sense of humor and one could speculate that she also hates men. With this in mind, it would be completely proper for her to throw a drowning ...
The hit NBC poker show Poker After Dark was hosting their “Close but No Cigar” week, with poker pros who made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker but did not win. Andy Black, Mike Matusow, Lee Watkinson, Allen ...
During the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table the November Nine were in fine form, with incredible hands falling left and right. In this particular hand one NY chess player showed that he had mastered the nuances ...
When the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table got underway it seemed like many of the players didn’t play many hands. These were the mid to short stack crew, those holding on tight and trying to climb the money ...
While many of the players at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table could be considered pros, only one was considered an established pro, one who had been around long enough and played in enough venues to be ...
Luck is certainly needed in a poker game. As much talk about the game being all skill, lucky does come into play, and certainly during a major No Limit Hold’em tournament. One can’t get more major than the 2008 World Series ...
Much ado was made about David “Chino” Rheem, a Korean American poker pro who was said to be carrying the weight of all of poker pro-dom on his shoulders, by his own admission. While there were other pros at the table during ...
There was a lot of fun at the 2008 World Series of Poker main event final table as the November Nine finally got to play after months of waiting. While some looked on like Ylon Schwarts, Dennis Phillips and Ivan Demidov, the two ...
With the action hot and heavy at the 2008 World Series of Poker main event final table it was no wonder some players were sweating the action; but in poker that means waiting to see if your hand holds up or gets crushed. In this ...
There was plenty of action at the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, even without Hevad Khan to whoop it up and play invisible basketball. The first chip leader surrendered his lead in the first hand, and ...