2011 WSOP ESPN TV Table
Caesar's Entertainment, owner of the WSOP tournament, released the 2012 schedule today along with some new changes in the event. Seth Palansky, Vice President Corporate Communications, opened the curtains on the largest, most action packed WSOP in the 43 years that the first ever, original poker tournament has been offered to poker players. Leave your calendar open from May 27 through July 16 when the November Nine of the $10,000 World Series Poker Championship event will head home until the November.
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Wendeen H. Eolis
Ace investigative reporter, Wendeen H. Eolis, has once again returned from the quagmire that is online poker with another breaking story. This time she's the first to tell the world that PokerStars CEO Gabriel Campos Woslovsky would be leaving the troubled online poker company after a two year hitch.
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Today starts a new poker promotion at Red Rock Station.
From 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily, the high hand of that period in the poker room receives $1,000.
The hand must be at least Aces Full and you must play both cards.
If you share the same hand, you’ll split the prize.
The flier takes care to mention that this prize does not come from the jackpot drop, it’s funded entirely by Red Rock.
A nice extra, eh?
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The Sign at (what was) the Fitzgerald Poker Room
In what we hope does not start a trend, the poker room at Fitzgeralds downtown has quietly closed.
Other poker rooms, such as Silverton, have limited their hours.
Fitz had a tough time since launching their poker room upstairs a few years ago. Only attracting 1 or 2 tables worth of players, they tried tournaments, sit-n-gos, freerolls, high hand jackpots, but in the end it didn't justify the cost and was shuttered.
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Wendeen H. Eolis
With the holidays rapidly becoming a fading memory, Wendeen H. Eolis, our favorite bearer of facts concerning the state of Online Poker's uphill trek to legitimancy, is back to work.
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Wendeen H. Eolis
She's back. Wendeen H. Eolis delivers the third segment in a continuing series of in-depth articles that looks at the big picture of online poker's legal/illegal status. Included in the analysis of the game is the age old argument of poker's classification of a game of skill or nothing more than a game of chance, no different than buying tickets in a government run lottery.
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Phil Ivey, former Full Tilt Poker superstar
Luciaetta Ivey, ex-wife of Phil Ivey, filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court last week alleging the judge in her divorce from the poker player was compromised. Apparently the family court judge, Bill Gonzales, received campaign contributions from Phil Ivey plus additional contributions from Ivey's lawyer, David Chesnoff.
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Pius Heinz, 2011 WSOP Main Event Champion
A few minutes after midnight the final hand of the 2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event was dealt to the final two players, Martin Strasko and Pius Heinz. Betting ended when Pius Heinz said "all-in" and was called by Martin Staszko.
Pius Heinz finished in first place to become the 2011 WSOP Main Event Champion. He collected $8,715,638 in cash to supplement the coveted gold and diamond 2011 WSOP Championship Bracelet. Martin Staszko received $5,433,086 for second place.
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Pius Heinz, chip leader with 107,800,000
Sometime in the early morning hours on Wednesday the 2011 WSOP Main Event should finally deal the final hand and crown a world's poker champion. Three players remain in the quest for poker's most sought after world championship bracelet, $8,715,638 in cash and the bragging rights as the top poker player of 2011. Second place will receive $5,433,086 and third place will have to settle for $4,021,138.
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Wendeen H. Eolis playing in the WSOP Main Event
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