Haley Hintze
This week’s casting of the Weekly Poker Net hauled in
a big catch from Las Vegas, where major changes for
the World Series of Poker have been revealed. Is the
Main Event a test of endurance designed to produce a
lasting and memorable champion for the game, or a
made-for-TV spectacle with corporate interests and
sponsorship run amok? It’s one of many questions now
fair game in the wake of what’s new at the WSOP:
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Haley Hintze
Another huge poker payday was the feature of the week,
this time in the World Poker Tour’s biggest event, its
$25,000 buy-in World Championship at the Bellagio in
Las Vegas. A power-packed final table and an
unexpected finish will make this one of the most
anticipated WPT broadcasts in recent history when it
eventually airs. Legislative and business happenings
also speckled the poker landscape in the latest
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Haley Hintze
A $3 million prize in the spring’s richest poker event highlighted the news in a very slow stretch of poker days. Glen Chorny’s triumph at the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final was the biggest win of the year to date, even as another major event, the WPT World Championship, began play this week at the Bellagio. Elsewhere, a few poker-business items worked their way into public view, and the untimely death of a poker diva reminded us all that the poker world is a place of both dreams and demons: Read The Rest
Haley Hintze
Strange days, indeed. This edition of the Weekly
Poker Net brought stories both unusual and sad, from
the widely rumored delay of the World Series of Poker
Main Event final table to a poker-related death (and
manslaughter charges) at a New Jersey casino. It
wasn’t a busy week, as news from poker goes, but it
was an interesting one. Here are the most important
items from the week:
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