Tag: WSOP
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A Colossal Win for Blair Matheson
Back in May, you may remember we interviewed Kit Goodman-Edwards: just one of 20 lucky poker players who each won an all-expenses paid trip to play the Colossus tournament in Las Vegas. Kit was excited at the prospect of entering the biggest poker tournament on the planet, and hoped to take down the $1,000,000 first prize. While we’re […]
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WSOP Europe – Chances galore, not sore
When the world’s poker elite come to London every September for the World Series of Poker Europe, it almost feels as if us Brits have home advantage, having played away from home for six weeks in Vegas. Of course home advantage doesn’t mean much in poker, but being able to wake up every morning in your own bed, […]
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WSOP Part 3 – Premiership footballers play poker too
I’m not saying I’m having an unlucky run, but at the moment I feel like if I was one of Pamela Anderson’s triplets, I’d be the one on the bottle. Vegas is a place with nowhere to hide when you’re not running great, but rather than get you down you have to remain positive – we’re so […]
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WSOP Part 2 – Aggro and irksome players are always a big challenge
Phil Helmuth tweeted this week: “SO UPSET!! Even my tablemates felt bad for me! Took indescribable bad beats”. I used to think he was a bit of an idiot for talking like that…now I’m beginning to empathise. The $5k shootout was a tournament I was really looking forward to, 15,000 starting chips and generally a load of people […]