NoxKo
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Sigh.That's not what cardplayer is saying. Have no idea which one's right.WOWZZ!!!In a 3-way pot preflop with Rick Fuller, Fabrice Soullier and Phil Hellmuth, the flop comes AQ9 and it checks around. The turn is the 8, and gives Hellmuth a gutshot draw for his 57. Soullier has Q3 and Fuller with 66, and has 2 of Phil's outs. But the river is the deadly 6 and gives Fuller a set and Hellmuth the straight. Fuller moves in and Hellmuth makes the easy call with the nuts and takes Fuller out in an unexpected spot. -
Too bad it doesn't include the main event, or I would have joined up as well.I paid the $50 and am watching it now. Robert the 3rd is a great commentator. I get to watch the circuit events live for the next year and Bluff Magazine for a year as well. -
Two couples were playing poker one evening. John accidentally dropped some cards on the floor.When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed Bill's wife, Sue, wasn't wearing any underwear under her dress.Shocked by this, John, upon trying to sit back up again, hit his head on the table and emerged red-faced. Later, John went to the kitchen to get some refreshments. Bill's wife followed and asked, "Did you see anything that you liked under there?"Surprised by her boldness, John courageously admitted that, well indeed he did. She said, "Well, you can have it, but it will cost you $500."After taking a minute or two to access the financial cost of this offer, John confirms that he is interested. She tells him that since her husband Bill works Friday afternoons and John doesn't, John should be at her house around 2 PM Friday afternoon.When Friday rolled around, John showed up at Bill's house at 2 PM sharp, and after paying Sue the agreed sum of $500, they went to the bedroom and closed their transaction as agreed. John quickly dressed and left.As usual, Bill came home from work at 6 PM, and upon entering the house, asked his wife abruptly, "Did John come by the house this afternoon?"With a lump in her throat Sue answered, "Why yes, he did stop by for a few minutes this afternoon."Her heart nearly skipped a beat when her husband curtly asked,"And did he give you $500?"In terror she assumed that somehow he had found out, and after mustering her best poker face, replied,"Well, yes, in fact he did give me $500."Bill, with a satisfied look on his face, surprised his wife by saying, "Good, I was hoping he did. John came by the office this morning and borrowed $500 from me. He promised me he'd stop by our house this afternoon on his way home and pay me back."Now that, my friends, is a poker player.
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Bodog.It took my regular Visa the other day. I have no idea why.I've read that you can deposit with the visa gift card, but I was wondering if there were any small sites that still took just regular credit cards. My visa used to work on mansion, titan, and poker.com. -
DN,When are you playing PAD again?
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People in the USA have overused the "I'm offended" card by such a wide margin, that it's beginning to fall on deaf ears.As it should.Personally I don't care if someone is offended by something as benign as what DN did. That's their problem, not DN's.So be "offended" some more. You're only watering down any justified offense for truly racist actions.
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Obviously he thought he was value betting. Not so obvious "almost every other player in his spot" would do the same.how is that a bad bet on the end, I guarantee Cunningham though he was value betting there and so would almost every other player in his spot, when jamie gold who bets everything since he has the big stack bets the flop, bets the turn, then checks the river (if i remember the action correctly) how can you not think your trips are good and make a little value bet there. -
Cunningham also made a bad bet on the river early on with his trip 9's weak kicker (2 million chip bet if I recall). He should have checked it down there. I remember watching that hand on PPV, and either Cloutier or Brunson was in the booth at the time. After the hand they said Allen lost the minimum amount. Bull. A check at the river would have been the minimum amount.you cant say that he played terribly. He made 1 bad read with the TT against wasicka and 1 minor mistake not betting out with the straight. He made sick reads with the A high call down and the A6 push on the flop, and good laydowns of the J8 top pair on the turn and the AT top pair on the river. From the hands we saw he never had a premium hand above TT, or if he did he didn't get any action on them and he had a big chip deficit to try and overcome. -
Well, it's pretty simple.If Gold was out of line, then he should have been called on it by the WSOP officials. The dealers and other players are perfectly free to bring it to their attention. I didn't see so much as a warning given to him, including from pros at his table, so it's hard to fault Gold on this.
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So did Gold ever get his money or is it still in limbo?
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Bottom line is WE DO know who posted what. Are you blind?And why would you guess that Lisandro shorted the pot? Because some whiney little moron said so?bottom line: WE dont know who posted what ante, more importantly, prahlad had an extreme agenda, prahlad still crackin a smile while lisandro was bey upset.if i had to guess......lisandro DID short the pot -
Prahlad was a moron. He wasn't trying to put him on tilt, he really thought Lisandro missed the ante, and just COULDN'T LET IT GO.Dude should have STFU. He deserves to have his head taken off. Whiney little a$$.
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Something a little less lame and a little less tameIf you had a "God Cam" for a period of time - say 2 hours - would you use it to determine if Doyle Brunson was a cheat - or something a little less lame? -
They have no way to eliminate the online qualifiers. How someone gets their money is out of their control. 10 friends in a home game could each put in 1k and the winner would get the money for the ME.If they really want to limit the field the only way to do it is limit the number of online qualifiers. -
Dmitri is a donk of the worse kind. His river calls were HORRIBLE.
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I think if the hand wasn't on TV, that DN lays it down.He didn't want to get bluffed by his good friend e-dog on TV. e-dog may have realized that, hence the all-in raise.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu_UngerOne story Ungar recalled was when a known cheater at gin called to set up a match with him. Ungar knew the man was a cheater as well but agreed to play him for money anyway. During the match, Ungar's bodyguard (sent by his financial backers because in those days the backers of a losing player at times assaulted or killed a winning player and took their money back) noticed the man was cheating. The bodyguard pulled Ungar aside and was irate while telling him. Ungar calmly told the bodyguard "I know he's cheating. Don't worry. I'll beat him anyway", and he did.
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Apparently you do.I didn't need instruction on how to find out next years POY. -
Just read DN's latest blog entry regarding this topic.His basic thesis is that the WPT put poker on the map, so we should all be grateful and just STFU. Yes he talks about other aspects of the issue, but his main thesis is what I stated.I'm sorry, but that's weak. That's like saying a parent has a right to abuse their kid because their kid wouldn't be alive in the first place without the parent. Totally silly argument. The WPT wouldn't be rich without the players anymore than the players would be rich without the WPT. The WPT should be just as "grateful" to the players. The players PAID their way in for Pete's sake. The WPT filmed it and made millions from it.Whether the lawsuit is overboard or not is not the question. Most reasonable people will come to the conclusion that the WPT release is unreasonable. As a comparison, simply look at the WSOP release. If the WPT would just make the release similar to the WSOP's, then I would hope that the lawsuit would be dropped. Until such time, I hope the lawsuit continues.
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And why wouldn't DN raise him with position and AK AQ AJ??No, Phil didn't play it well, especially the way he gave away his hand with his talk. Terribly played.And if DN had a hand like AK AQ AJ Helmuth shouldve know he was beat the whole way, but because of DN's reraise preflop he put him on QQ or JJ. Which is correct. The call on the river was bad, but the rest he played well... -
You mean like when Doyle called Ted Forrest an idiot on TV? I guess we should shun Doyle tooMike Sexton would agree--image on television of poker players throwing fits and pulling stunts like this isn't good for the image of poker. Step up the game.
Anyone who knows poker and watches High Stakes knows Antonio is one of the best players on there. Too bad for you he won't be going anywhere soon.
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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/200...ws/9211902.htmlWynn alters rules on tips Plan for sharing gratuities upsets casino's dealers By HOWARD STUTZGAMING WIRE Steve WynnThe Wynn Las Vegas chief told table game workers personally, official says A restructuring of how Wynn Las Vegas manages its casino soon will leave many dealers there a little lighter in the wallet.Starting Sept. 1, table game supervisors will share in the tips earned by dealers, a move gaming industry insiders said is unheard of along the Strip.Advertisement "This amounts to money out of my pocket to pay other employees," said one dealer, a 14-year veteran who has worked at the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas since it opened in April 2005. "It will cause a lot of disgruntled dealers. You're taking frontline people and making them unhappy." The change will cause him to lose at least $30,000 a year in tip earnings, he said.Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman Steve Wynn and other executives told table game employees of the pending changes Monday night.Wynn had been in China working on preparations for next month's opening of the $1 billion Wynn Macau. But he thought the issue was important enough to make a 15-hour flight to Las Vegas to tell his workers personally, Wynn Las Vegas President Andrew Pascal said Tuesday.A widening disparity between the wages earned by dealers and casino floor supervisors caused the Strip casino to alter the structure of its table games division, Pascal said.Starting next week, pit bosses and floor supervisors will be known as "casino service team leaders." Their responsibilities will cover the operations of specific table games, including game protection and customer service. The new plan will be phased in over several weeks.Gaming Control Board sources said Tuesday they were unaware of any changes in policy at Wynn Las Vegas. A source said the casino had applied to change some of its table game internal controls but did not advise gaming regulators about what modifications were being requested.The most controversial part of the restructuring is a change in compensation. Pascal said that Wynn Las Vegas dealers are the highest- paid dealers in the city, averaging about $100,000 per year in salary and tip earnings. But the employees supervising dealers average about $60,000 a year in salary, Pascal said."Because of our property, that disparity has gotten wider," Pascal said, citing Wynn's emphasis on high-end play as one reason its dealers' tokes are larger than most Strip properties. "There was no incentive in the division to advance and grow."Everybody wanted to become dealers," he added.Dealers who split tips by shifts now will share those tokes with team leaders and supervisors, who also will receive a boost in base salary.The result, Pascal said, will be dealers earning an average of $90,000 annually while supervisors will be paid $95,000."We're still going to have the highest-paid dealers on the Strip," Pascal said. "What it does is rebalances the structure of our table games division and gives a person an incentive to take on more responsibility."But dealers said sharing tokes with supervisors is unfair. Writing anonymously on the dealers Internet forum, CasinoDealers.net, several Wynn employees said they were disappointed that their paychecks could be reduced by an estimated 10 percent to 20 percent.Some said they were upset by the short notice before the changes take effect; others said they will apply for different positions to avoid a pay cut."We will continue to go to work, smile, and do our jobs to the best of our ability. We have no choice," one Wynn dealer wrote."The image of 'Steve Wynn' convinced us we were safe, but the image was just a mirage. I think I will be applying for a 'team leader' position to minimize the financial damage that lies ahead."Another dealer wrote that Wynn Las Vegas mismanaged its staff and is forcing line employees to share in the burden."They say that it is because they think it's only 'right' for supervisors to make more than dealers because this is how things are in other industries," the dealer wrote. "Well, dealers making more than supervisors is how it has always been in this industry and this didn't become the 'right' thing to do until Wynn failed miserably to make their employees happy."MGM Mirage spokesman Alan Feldman said examples exist throughout the gaming industry of entry-level managers earning far less than the line workers they oversee. Bartenders and cocktail waitresses sometimes earn more than the assistant beverage manager."The management positions are on a completely different career path than the line employees," Feldman said.Harrah's Entertainment spokesman David Strow said that historically at Harrah's-owned properties, including the upscale Caesars Palace, supervisors do not share in the tip pool with dealers.Wynn Las Vegas will start incentive programs for dealers to earn annual cash bonuses to supplement their lost income, Pascal said. Dealers on the Web site said most of the heat from the change will be felt by table game supervisors, who are receiving a large bump in pay."I don't agree with the way this was handled, but this was the cheapest way for management to make the floor happy without it costing the company money," wrote a Wynn dealer. "Steve Wynn emphasized that he expects near perfection from the floor staff for this big pay raise."Wynn Las Vegas operates 140 table games, including baccarat. Pascal said about 820 table game positions at the casino will be affected in the restructuring.The casino's poker room and slot machine area will not be affected by the changes.Pascal said the property has operated for several months without a vice president of casino operations, the executive responsible for the table game division. Several other middle management table game positions have been restructured too. A casino manager and two assistant casino managers will supervise each shift.Former pit bosses and floor supervisors will assume new job duties. Pascal also hopes some dealers will want to move up to the team leader positions.He said the concept allows dealers to have an incentive to increase their responsibility while increasing their wages.
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Showing the main event first this year is lame. What's wrong with waiting a bit and showing the events in the order they were played?You have people on last night's telecast congratulating Phil on winning his 10th bracelet before it's even been aired on television
Spoils it for people who just wanted to watch the TV coverage and didn't follow the boards.
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