· News4 WOAI’s Dale Blasingame reports the poker gods are against him. Focus momentarily taken off of missing girl in Aruba, to dismay of housewives everywhere. [WOAI]
· One of the space shuttle Discovery astronauts is nicknamed “Vegas” due to a lucky poker streak a few years back. Still isn’t as cool as […]

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The lovely ladies of poker blogging have been arguing amongst themselves lately in regards to special treatment in poker. Sadly, this has been a well-mannered discussion with no torn lingerie or catfight scratching and clawing from the participants. Regardless, there is a variety of opinions from all the ladies of the poker blogging world. So Annie Duke won’t play Ladies Only events? What exactly are they squabbling about? Read on, after the jump. CHICK TALK Plenty of good discussion, started mostly by the Debbie Burkhead article quoted first, and this top ten list from About.com listing female poker bloggers. Debbie Burkhead, via Women’s Poker Club:

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James McManus is back in the New York Times with another divisive look at the game of poker. This time, he takes the ladies for a long walk on the beach, clubs them over the head with some driftwood (sorry, Marcus Allen) and throws them to the rabid walruses (walrus? walruseses?) for good measure. James McManus loves the ladies. After the jump, we’ll let one of our poker blogging friends take him out behind the woodshed. LADIES LOVE COOL JAMES McManus’ article articulates one solid point - that men are more competitive than women, because that’s how we spread our seed.

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We here at Oddjack would like to offer the following corrections to our earlier piece detailing Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi’s victory in a No Limit Hold ‘Em event in the Ultimate Poker Challenge at the Plaza in downtown Las Vegas. · Apparently, there is no "points system" that helps players earn a berth at the final TV table. That was the structure last year, and has been replaced by a $10k No Limit Hold ‘Em event which starts tomorrow. · We referred to both TJ Cloutier and the Plaza Hotel and Casino as "venerable." Cloutier is venerable, the Plaza is just old-ass. · That was not Emilio Estevez who has been delivering our sandwiches, as previously reported.

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· Budweiser uses poker to help fight Muscular Dystrophy. Ah yes, the one problem alcohol can’t solve. [Poker News]
· Barry Greenstein is a good guy. Poker blogger Felicia Lee tells you why. [Felicia Lee]
· Balance poker with the rest of our lives? Maybe a good idea, we tried to bluff […]

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