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lol joeschmoe that exactly what i though when i saw it, simply looks like a piece of plastic...

btw shaun deeb just won a third scoop...
and that "verbal declaration"-rule is just awful, players really shouldn't be forced to talk in a hand. imagin a player like ferguson was forced to declare all his actions verbally, such a joke! also declaring an action verbally can sometimes be a tell or can be used as a reverse tell, so as mentioned in the article it has a direct effect on the game which is awful!

joeschmoe wrote

"Honey.. I'm a total degen. You don't want to marry me."

But your degeneracy is what I love about you!

"Yeah.. i know.. but Oh! The pain! You just don't understand."

What don't I understand?? Tell me!

"Look.. Today I have millions.. sure.. but tomorrow? Tomorrow I might be broke, or even in debt for millions."

So what? I'll still love you. And you can always make lots more money!

"But I might die.. have an accident or whatever.. and you, as my wife, will be stuck with my huge debts. You will be forced to sell everything and then still be burdened by any remaining debt. Part of any money you earn for the rest of your life will be garnished."

But what can we do about that? There must be something.

" There is. I talked to the lawyer and he gave me this paper.. It's called a prenup. It is one very important part of our future financial planning. Now take this pen... and sign..., right... here."

i wish ivey read that before his marriage xD

ouch

would be a shame if the event reaches it's cap and it turns out that there couldve been like 50 more players, sad for the charity and sad for the viewers that might have visited like a 25.000.000$ first place price

why is the event $1mil buyin event capped at 48 players???

wow, i love pokerstars for zoom so much, 1. you can play an unreal amount of hands/hr without having to concentrate on 12+ tables and 2. it just doesn't get boring to play since you only play you're good hands. i played like 4h of microstakes zoom just for the fun of it xD

People blaiming ivey are mad and stupid. do you think he would just walk around and play tournaments that are not really of any importance for ivey if he would have anything to hide or be scared to explain himself? also, daniel negreanu who really went on a tear about that fulltilt issue said nothing regarding ivey, just like tom dwan and pretty much any pro with insiderknowledge. people just want a person to blaim and it's sad ivey is the first one available right now.
oh and im totally looking forward to the PAD cashgame's, i was wondering a long time if they ever get aired, 200k cashgame with durrrr, ivey and antonius gonna be exciting

how come that you not have reported about ZOOM poker by now? the public beta started days ago and you seem to be very close with pokerstars.

@yolapavement i don't know if you only read the part that you quoted, but pretty much the whole rest of my post are examples why raiseonce looks so much like ivey. ofc non of that is a 100% proof, but read the thread and you can tell its like 99%.

who is that selbst guy?

if you read the whole 2+2 post on the raiseonce thing there should be no doubt its ivey. also everyone who has seen ivey on FTP can tell soo easily that it has to be him. the games and stakes he sits at, he doesnt auto-rebuy, the way he chats, how he just quits when he's done and probably most of all the fact that he doesnt play more than at most 2 tables at a time. also the fact that he gets nearly no action at HORSE and that he plays so few hands. oh yeah and actually theres a hilarious story that also shows that its ivey. one of the highstakes limit regs on stars once joined his table to tell him that he could save a few thousand dollars by activating the "ask to post blinds when a new game starts"-option but the stakes on stars a probably a bit boring for mr. ivey, considering he used to play 3k/6k on FTP. at least for the railbirds, its a shame the games online got so much smaller after black friday, there are rarly games higher than $50/$100 NL when there used to be epic 500/1k HU battles everyday.

wow, unbelievable. how can the floorteam be so awful? i mean would a guy who actually chip dumb'd just go to the floor and explain him exactly how he did it? after all, the action didnt went how it was planned by "terry", it wasnt blind v blind, so obivously DM did not act according to a plan.

i just hope that ivey is amongst the players who instantly replied to GBT, it would be a tragedy if this whole fulltilt thing would destroy his reputation as THE fan favorite in poker. But the statement ""The poker community, and particularly that made up of former Full Tilt players waiting to recover their funds, deserves to know the reality of the behavior of some major poker figures who say they are sorry for the situation of Full Tilt players and want to do everything they can to help them get their funds back, blaming the old management, [...]" sounds like it tries to scream "IVEY!", if it weren't for the accretion accretion "[...], but also refrain from saying how much they have borrowed from Full Tilt, and lost, playing on the site." lets just hope that whole drama will be forgotten when the 2012 wsop starts and everyone will be able to cheer for ivey like always

people hating on phil ivey are mad and stupid. ringworm218's post was the best, cuz he basically counters his own arguements. he is allowed to play in these tournys because he hasn't had a clue about what was going on on fulltilt. also, no fulltilt insider ever blaimed ivey for anything, best example tom dwan. people are just mad at fulltilt and too lazy do decide who is actually to blaim. i think alot of ivey fans are happier than ever to see him win after his long break. as soon as people get their money back they will realise what a bunch of bs they were talking.

i guess flint is just refreshing the pokernews page like 3 times a minute all day xD

i feel alot of pokerstars sponsorship in this one xD

wouldve been more ironic to place him 2nd in the ranking

"High-roller tournaments are $25k,[...] , that's what people can afford to play" typical line that shows vanessa simply doesnt like the super-high-roller events cause she cant afford to play the. "$25k, thats what people can afford" LOL, im pretty sure most people CANT afford a $25k buy-in tournament, its what SHE can afford and thats why she thinks that it should be the highest. and about it ruining the sanctity of a bracelet: the old guys like brunson, they won most of there bracelets in tournaments with <50 players! its just one big event, its not like they are increasing all the buyins or putting tons of 1mil$ buyin tournaments in the scheduled, its a UNIQUE tournament. and why is it ruining "all the different stats and tracking and all that stuff" ? the only thing it messes up is the all-time-money list, which isnt very meaningful because of inflation, main event winners etc. anyway. liv boeree's complains are equally stupid. "The higher buy-in tournaments are just a bad idea because they are smaller tournaments and you don’t have to be that good to win." so she basically says you have to be good to win big-field tournaments? i think there are enough horrible players that won EPTs or the wsop ME to prove her wrong. big-field tournaments get won by bad players so much often because the percentage of pros playing is way lower. obviously big buyin tournaments get won by pros alot because there are mostly pros playing. so she says she is concerned about a bad player winning when its obviously a tournament that is most likely to get won by a top professional. these people are just mad...

wow, what a stacked last 13 players, hope antonio takes it down.