- 03rd Jul
By Simon Young
About 1,300 players started today’s charge for glory, but despite the super-slow structure - the slowest in WSOP Main Event history after three levels were added in the early period - players have been falling on the Rio battlefield at an alarming rate.
But for every broken body heading for the exit, one warrior [...]
| - 03rd Jul
By Simon Young
My body clock was all over the place yesterday, thanks to the eight-hour London/Vegas time difference and the long-haul flight over. As a result, I woke up at 3.30am and could not get back to sleep. What else was a chap to do other than pop downstairs to the poker room in the [...]
| - 03rd Jul
By Simon Young
On the television sets in every Las Vegas hotel room there’s a tourist channel that tells stories of the city’s legends. One I watched only last night featured the rise, rise, fall and then rise again of singing sensation Wayne Newton, whose cheeky face when he was a kid propelled him to stardom. [...]
| - 03rd Jul
By Simon Young
So it’s finally here. After all the hype, the World Series of Poker Main Event kicks off today, with probably around 6,000 players itching to get cracking. PartyPoker has a team of qualifiers who have got here for next to nothing thanks to our online satellites, thus avoiding the $10,000 buy-in.
All of them [...]
| - 02nd Jul
By Simon Young
I’m one of life’s worriers who sits on a plane and wonders how on earth it stays in the air. How is it that a lump of metal, held together by a bit of welding and bolts, can hurtle along at 500mph and land thousands of miles away in exactly the right spot [...]
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