WSOP 2005 News

The 36th World Series, a seven-week long poker extravaganza, starts Thursday with the first of a record 45 scheduled events. The competition culminates July 15 when play begins at the final table of the $10,000 buy-in World Championship no-limit Texas hold’em match.Harrah’s purchased the World Series of Poker last year along with the then-shuttered Binon’s Horseshoe. The company rescued the tournament when it reopened the venerable downtown casino in time for the event to begin.

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Negreanu - Card Stud

Noted in today’s New York Times Magazine:

Daniel-NegreanuDaniel Negreanu is a vegetarian, without much interest in food. ‘’I ate two days ago'’ is the kind of thing he says. His disdain for food is a reaction to his mother, who is obsessed with food. Mommy, as he calls her, likes to serve people food, then sit down and smile at them as they eat. When Negreanu was growing up in Toronto, Mommy sent him to school with his lunch packed in a brown bag. When he went to McDonald’s with friends, she gave him a brown-bag lunch. When he got his first job as a telemarketer ('’I lasted a day,'’ he says), Mommy packed him a brown-bag lunch. When he got his next job at Subway ('’I was a good sandwich maker'’), Mommy packed him a brown-bag lunch. These days, when Negreanu goes to work at night at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, Mommy packs him a brown-bag lunch.
Read the full article at The New York Times

Bar Poker

Check out Bar Poker. A great idea! I hope it comes to NYC soon.

TV Show “All-In” Cancelled

Annie Duke is finding out that the business end of television may be as competitive and cutthroat as any poker game she’s ever encountered. Excitement in the poker and television world has been building due to a new comedy that was being considered by NBC. Loosely based on Annie’s true life story, “All-In” was expected to merge the gap between the massive primetime audience of NBC with overall poker awareness and popularity. Mrs. Alison Graham, Annie’s publicist from Much and House Public Relations, recently informed pokernews.com that “Sadly, it was not picked up.”


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