What happens when you offer a $1.5 Million Guaranteed Pot on a Sunday tournament online?

If the PokerStars Sunday Tournament 1.5 Million Guarantee is any indication, you’ll find yourself with 8,431 entrants and a massive $1,686,200.00 total prize pool. This ensured a cool $204,198.82 to the winner and with that kind of prize money, you can be certain this tournament is taken seriously.

With such a monstrous field, did the online poker wizards stood a chance? Once again proving that poker is a game of skill, online phenoms Andy McLEOD and Zach ‘’nofingclue11′’ Clark emerged as chip leaders going into the final table despite the sheer number of poker wannabes in their midst. (Yep, these guys should’ve just stayed home watching the 2008 World Series of Poker on TV…)

Unfortunately for both, despite their strong showings, Andy McLEOD and nofingclue11 ended up in 4th and 5th place respectively. Hey, don’t feel too bad for them, that was $75,879.00 for 4th place and a very respectable $59,017.00 for 5th.

The final three saw RProps, betofetus and Fred_Brink battling for glory with Fred_Brink dead last with only 13,553 in chips. The three discussed a possible deal and luckily for Fred_Brink, the deal was never agreed upon.

With RProps having 43,391,921 in chips and betofetus having 27,284,169, Fred_Brink seemed to be well on his way out. But…

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A whopping 6,844 entrants for the 2008 WSOP $10,000 NLHE Championship is just unthinkable.

As we go deeper into the 2008 World Series of Poker tournament, we saw the second largest field in WSOP Main Event history. A total of 6,844 aspiring bracelet winners trooped to the Rio pumping up the total prize money to a staggering $9,119,517.

Doomsday soothsayers beware. Top 666 of the players will get paid and the minimum cash-out will be $21,230. How about that huh?

Day 1D of the 2008 WSOP Championship saw former champions Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Jerry Yang, Carlos Mortensen and Noel Furlong joining the fun.

Poker stars Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Annie Duke, Phil Gordon, Allen Cunninghan and Men ‘’The Master'’ Nguyen also joined the fray. Celebrity sightings include MLB pitcher David Wells and UFC fighter Chuck ‘’The Iceman'’ Liddel.

Casualties were many too. EPT Scandinavian Open winner Tim Vance lost when his opponent gambled with middle pair and hit a runner-runner flush to beat his straight on the flop. Poker pro David Williams was cruelly eliminated when his…

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Imagine this…

You just earned a seat to the biggest poker tournament of the year, maybe the 2008 World Series of Poker for crying out loud, after months and months of sitting in front of the PC, folding all these good hands in your favorite online poker room.

But once you finally take your seat with the top professional poker players of the world, you realize that your no longer inside the comforts of your living room. You realize that everybody around the world will be watching your every move, laughing at you every time you fold a damn good hand. What do you do?

If you want to be a part of the live poker scene, here are some of the stuff you can take note of and hopefully, you won’t look like a horse’s ass pretending you know something about the game of poker.

Buy a hat and really really dark sunglasses. If you’ve been watching these tournaments on TV, you should know this by now. Wearing these will probably make you feel comfortable and protected from visual scrutiny.

Second, NEVER EVER say one word during a hand. Silence in poker is gold. You can’t…

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In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, you should know that poker has this thing that lets you play anonymously online.

Apparently, the trend has actually gone from nice to irritatingly too much the moment that they started developing artificial intelligence for the sole purpose of playing poker.

Yep, Polaris, dubbed as the best poker-playing computer program from the University of Alberta, challenged the best poker players of the world to test just how good Polaris is in bluffing, calling and raising you whenever you go all-in. And what’s even more surprising is the fact that two poker players actually answered the challenge.

Phil Laak a.k.a. ‘’the Unabomber,'’ and Ali Eslami, a.k.a. ‘’we don’t give a rat’s ass who he is,'’ was invited to play Polaris to test the computer’s capabilities in playing against the best poker players in the world.

Wait, are these guys really qualified to represent mankind against Polaris?

The University of Alberta needed poker players who not only sowed excellence in the game, but were also capable of speaking through…

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Maybe he is, if it will let him bet on the new Las Vegas NBA team in the gambling capital of the world.

He he… Yep, we’re still talking about that NBA referee who bets on the NBA games he officiates in. For all ya’ll who have been living under a rock lately, NBA referee Tim Donaghy is under investigation by the FBI for betting on the games he officiates. Yep, the bastard is calling fouls to cover the fucking spread.

Now, with the NBA’s latest and by far, BIGGEST scandal yet, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman is confident that the issue won’t hurt the city’s bid for an NBA basketball team whatsoever.

Get this, mayor Goodman even thinks that this issue will even strengthen Las Vegas’ goal to have its own NBA team. He he… It’s Las Vegas folks. Everybody gets weird whenever lots and lots of money are involved.

Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman said, ‘’I think that there’s going to be a public recognition that Las Vegas does monitor this kind of alleged activity. I don’t want anyone’s bad fortune to cause us good fortune, but I think it will cause people to look at Las Vegas in a light perhaps differently than they do, because we do in fact regulate this kind of activity.'’

Does that also mean NBA referee Tim Donaghy can…

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Yep, a fat Asian psychologist from Cali is the new 2007 WSOP champion.

Only started playing poker a couple of years ago, Jerry Yang, a psychologist from California, became the new Cinderella man of the WSOP after winning the 2007 World Series of Poker main event. He jumped from eight to first at the final table to win this year’s latest competition of poker greats. Well… sort of anyway… Heck, the guy has only been playing for two fucking years.

Jerry Yang took home a $8.25 million payday, beating the other seven players who were fortunate enough to get their asses planted on the final table. Of course, he got the coveted 2007 WSOP bracelet too.

Jerry Yang said, ‘’I study my opponents very carefully, and when I sensed something, when I sensed some weakness, I took a chance. Even if I had nothing, I decided to raise, re-raise, push all-in or make a call.'’

For a guy who’s already 39 years old, this Jerry guy sure talks like he’s Spider-Man, using that spider sense to win in poker. Did I mention he’s 39? The only thing he can sense accurately is probably the time to take a dump.

Yang, an ethnic Hmong immigrant from Laos (of all places…) had nearly the shortest stack of chips as the final nine poker players…

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Here comes the moneeey… (Here we go, money talks…) Here comes the money. Money money money money money money money money money.

(Dolla’ dolla…’ dolla’ dolla…’ ching ching bling bling…) THAT, for all ya’ll wondering, is the theme song entrance of the son of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, Shane. And no, it has nothing to do with the ongoing 2007 World Series of Poker tournament.

Speaking of, yeah, the field at the 2007 WSOP is being narrowed down now to that lucky group who will be having the opportunity to walk away with the $8.25 million jackpot prize. THAT means, the main event at the 2007 World Series of Poker is almost here and we will finally get rid of this farce soon. (Thank God…)

The field of about 800 has now been narrowed down to around 600 with each of them claiming at least $20,320. That’s double their initial buy-in of $10,000.

One player who won’t be having the opportunity to win this year’s WSOP tournament is my man, Chris ‘’Jesus'’ Ferguson. The 2000 WSOP main event champion was eliminated after going all in only to find absolutely no help whatsoever from the flop.

Yep, Ferguson, owner of five WSOP bracelets, started his day with…

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No, they won’t be swallowing horse shit from Curlin.

The HORSE tournament at the 2007 World Series of Poker is this Sunday and it will be the most expensive tournament to enter in the WSOP with a $50,000 price tag.

The HORSE event, with each letter in the acronym standing for the form of poker played in a rather dizzying rotation of games, is expected to draw the toughest professionals in poker and will last a grueling five days.

So why do these sick bastards enter the damn thing considering the steep buy-in and the nasty five-day marathon? Well, in poker, whoever wins the annual HORSE event is considered the best all-around player of the game. Of course, it has more than a few bundles of cash waiting for you too.

Because of the rather expensive entry fee, and of course the relative obscurity of some of the games involved like razz, the HORSE event figures to attract a relatively compact field.

From the uncontrollable chaos we like to…

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If there’s really one anyway.

With Spanish La Liga and English Premiership stars like David Beckham joining the MLS soccer league in the United States, the thought of having one MLS team in Las Vegas are just driving some Vegas locals crazy.

A thread in one major soccer website entitled, ‘’Las Vegas MLS plan ($35 Million on the Table)'’ became one of the most popular threads in the said soccer website. It drew 386 posts and attracted around 16,000 views, all probably coming from people living in Las Vegas.

‘’The city is twice the size of Salt Lake City, and it’s expected to pass Denver by 2010,'’ writes monster (obviously NOT his real name…) from Hanover, Pa. ‘’That’s not counting tourists. It’s not a slam dunk, but it’s not dire, either.'’

Apparently, Las Vegas locals have been longing for one MLS soccer team in their hometown that they already have nicknames for the new club. Some of the nicknames being tossed around include FC Vegas, Red Devils, Las Vegas Aces (ewww…) and my personal favorite, Sin City FC.

Others even have designs for the Las Vegas soccer team’s uniform. Of course, there were also some…

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In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, the 2007 WSOP tourney has arrived.

And yeah, just because we’re having a scarcity of sports other than MLB baseball lately, we’ll continue talking about the 2007 World Series of Poker until it makes us puke whenever someone says, ‘’W-S-O-P.'’

Different kinds of people have gathered for the 2007 World Series of Poker, all hoping to be that one guy who’ll win at the final table of the WSOP and get hold of that mountain of over 10 million in hard cold cash.

Butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, homemakers, meter maids, past-their-prime athletes and former stockbrokers burned out on reading the ticker have found their way to Las Vegas. They’ve all come to chase the elusive dream of winning a wheelbarrow full of cash and to gain a slice of immortality in the world of high-action gambling.

Either that or they just want to get their nameless asses famous for a change.

Winning the 2007 WSOP tournament is probably the surest way to become an instant…

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