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Associated Press Reporting Jamie Gold Lawsuit Settled

Although information is just beginning to trickle in, it appears the lawsuit between 2006 WSOP Main Event champ Jamie Gold and Los Angeles based television producer Bruce Crispin Leyser has been settled out of court.
The release signed by both parties given to the AP late Tuesday indicated both men agreed the matter should be resolved […]

2007 World Series of Poker Schedule Released

The schedule is out for the 2007 World Series of Poker and at first glance it does appear there are improvements to please almost everyone. The 2007 schedule promises a wide variety of games with varied buy-ins. We will see a grand total of 55 events over nearly seven weeks. Several long forgotten games are […]

Hershey’s Signs Deal with World Series of Poker

We’ve all been waiting to know who would get the coveted “Official Chocolate of the 2007 WSOP” honors. Yesterday marked the end of our wait when a deal between Harrah’s and Hershey’s was announced.
Hershey has secured the rights to use the WSOP name and logo in the promotion of their products. Hershey announced that they […]

‘The Other Guy’ Speaks: Interview with Paul Wasicka, Part One

There’s an old expression in sports, ‘Nobody remembers who finished second’. Paul Wasicka is determined to change that. The 2006 World Series Main Event runner-up has the largest second place prize in poker history (over $6.1 million dollars) to start him off in his quest to become a poker legend.
Many may not have heard of […]

Two Million Questions: Poker Responds

It’s been about two weeks since we released our first three articles on the two million extra chips introduced into the 2006 WSOP Main Event. We have gotten feedback from a lot of different segments of the poker community and we thought, in order to further the conversation, we would share what we have been […]

Two Million Questions. Will Poker Answer?: Part One

As Poker seeks and gains more respectability with each successful tournament, each new television program and each lucrative advertising deal, the ‘powers that be’ within the growing poker community have more responsibility to ensure the integrity and fairness of the game. Poker has emerged from the dark, smoke-filled back room and has entered the mainstream […]

Two Million Questions. Will Poker Answer?: Part Two

In our first article Two Million Questions, Part One, we discussed that approximately two million extra chips found their way into the 2006 World Series of Poker Championship Event. As the “extra chips” revelation swirled through the poker media and the internet, there were two schools of thought. One of the explanations was that the […]

Jamie Can Have Half - Court Injunction Freezes Half Of Record WSOP Purse

On Wednesday, the parties in the continuing drama behind World Champion Jamie Gold’s victory at the World Series of Poker woke up to face an injunction that will hold up only half of the champion’s prize pool from the tournament.
U. S. District Court judge Roger L. Hunt is expected to sign the injunction soon, stated […]

Two Million Questions. Will Poker Answer?: Part Three

In our second article we dismissed the possibility that two million extra chips found their way into the 2006 WSOP Championship Event through the normal processes of blinding off dead stacks and chip race-offs. We also noted that the vast majority of the chip increase occurred between the end of Day Five and the end […]

Are you Sure you Want to Make the Final Table of the World Series of Poker?

Fame is thrust upon people in strange ways. People can either be in the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the wrong time. Either situation could make you famous.
Everyone famous agrees – it changes your life. The more famous you are, the more your life changes. Many public figures have […]

WSOP Rewind - Are These Breakout Players The Real Deal?

It seems that any big televised tournament inevitably brings rise to newfound fame for unknown players that turn in impressive performances. With all 46 tournaments of the 2006 World Series of Poker completed, many players have emerged in this fashion as potential future stars and mainstays of the tournament circuit.
Only the test of time will […]

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