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100th WSOP Cash Finish!
(by Rich Ryan, reposted from PokerNews.com)
In 1878, Tommy Bond became the first MLB pitcher to win 100 games. In 1920, Joe Malone became the first player to score 100 goals in the NHL. In 1970, Sonny Jurgensen became the first quarterback to throw for 100 touchdowns in the Super Bowl era of the NFL. In 1980, Brian Taylor became the first player to make 100 three-point shots in the NBA.On Thursday, when the bubble burst in Event #5: €2,200 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe, 13-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth became the first player to ever cash in 100 bracelet events. Eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel also cashed in the event, and remains in second on the all-time cashes list with 80.
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PH Machine Debuts Today!
I’m so so excited to be the face of a brand new interactive Texas Hold’em Heads Up poker machine debuting today. The sleek machine is an intuitive opponent for poker fanatics with stunning graphics. Let me know what you think when you play it!!
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New York Times Spotlights New Video Poker Machine
Sunday’s NYT Magazine featured a terrific article about an amazing new video poker game (featuring me!) that will debut in casinos around the world this autumn. Let me know if you get a chance to play!
(written by Michael Kaplan, reposed from NYT.com)
Stroll among the games at the Cosmopolitan, the newest casino on the Las Vegas Strip, and you might be overwhelmed by the latest whooping and flashing gambling machines. All the high-resolution monitors and video effects, devoted to themes ranging from deep-sea-fishing expeditions to Spider-Man to the unsubtlest visions of cash washing over lucky winners, are only the most obvious signs of technology’s move onto the casino floor. Behind the scenes, server-based gaming now enables managers to rapidly alter payouts, raise or reduce betting minimums, even change games themselves. (In just minutes, a bank of slot machines styled for dance clubbers can be rethemed to appeal to church ladies on a Sunday afternoon.) But a few deceptively prim-looking machines represent an even greater technological leap, the biggest advance in automated gambling since Charles Fey introduced the one-armed bandit in 1895. They owe the way they play to artificial intelligence.The machines, called Texas Hold ‘Em Heads Up Poker, play the limit version of the popular game so well that they can be counted on to beat poker-playing customers of most any skill level. Gamblers might win a given hand out of sheer luck, but over an extended period, as the impact of luck evens out, they must overcome carefully trained neural nets that self-learned to play aggressively and unpredictably with the expertise of a skilled professional. Later this month, a new souped-up version of the game, endorsed by Phil Hellmuth, who has won more World Series of Poker tournaments than anyone, will have its debut at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. The machines will then be rolled out into casinos around the world.
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John McCain’s Online Poker Fever
Very very clever… John McCain playing poker during Senate Hearings.
Posted by TeamCoco.com
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Lately…
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Behind the scenes! Filming my “White Magic” segment for ESPN’s World Series of Poker coverage
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A big fire north of Las Vegas caused this beautiful picture at sunset from TPC Summerlin Golf Course
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My ride home from Pinehurst #2 to San Francisco (the “live lucky” jet!)
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WSOP Main Event: Day 1 Recap
After Day 1 of the 2013 WSOP Main Event, I’m happier than I should be for simply making Day 2. The day got off to a late start, but I was able to rally to finish STRONG! Check out Bluff Magazine’s blow-by-blow recap of the proceedings below…Phil Hellmuth Runs Up Big Stack Late on Day 1C of 2013 WSOP Main Event
The 2013 WSOP Main Event would be incomplete without Phil Hellmuth. The 13-time bracelet winner and 1989 World Champion has not matched his 2011 and 2012 performances at the World Series of Poker, but that’s understandable. Hellmuth finished second in the WSOP Player of the Year race the last two years, winning bracelet number 12 in Vegas in the summer of 2012 and getting number 13 in style by taking the WSOP Europe title.
