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John Caldwell
After spending just under three weeks in the Amazon Room, the following issues have been the subject of a lot of talk at the WSOP.

HELLMUTH WINS 11TH, NARROWLY MISSES 12TH

There may not be anyone better at tackling today’s massive no-limit hold’em fields at the WSOP than Phil Hellmuth. Phil won Event No. 15, a […]

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Phil Hellmuth upon winning his 11th WSOP bracelet
Some of my earliest memories are of my father taking me to the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore to watch guys like Cal Ripken Jr. and Eddie Murray play the game of baseball. When you grow up as an Orioles fan, it is simply rooted in your blood […]

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Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire

If you play online poker tournaments, you have probably come across Annette_15. She’s been taking the poker world by storm over the last few months. Her real name is Annette Obrestad. The 18-year old poker prodigy is from Stavanger, a coastal town in southwest Norway that was once considered the herring capital […]

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Bonnie Demos
Majestic Star Casinos, Gary, IN- It all began in October of 2006 when Majestic Star Casinos hosted their first, wildly successful, Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) event and shattered all records with a prize pool of $450,000 and a field of 186 players. First place paid more than $122,000.

This event’s huge success prompted poker room […]

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George Epstein
Rarely do we speak of poker and world politics in the same breath. They seem so far removed from one another. But there is a strong connection. I’ll explain. . .

Having spent most of my engineering career (50-plus years) dealing with space systems, I was quite interested in reading about China’s recently demonstrated ability […]

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