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Mizrachi finishes fifth in WSOP Main Event

Michael Mizrachi has been in a lot of coin flips in poker tournaments throughout the years. He's won some big ones, and lost some big ones too. But he's never had one as big as he did against Jonathan Duhamel on Saturday night in the World Series of Poker Main Event.Mizrachi moved all in with pocket threes after Duhamel raised from the button...read more

Senti, Dolan exit WSOP final table, but in entirely different fashion

About fifteen minutes after he was eliminated from the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event in seventh place, Jason Senti was handed a beer by one of his many supporters in the middle of his post-bustout interview. After a rollercoaster ride on his final hand of the tournament, it was a well-deserved and welcomed beverage.Senti, who entered final-table play as the short stack, moved up two spots to claim seventh place and nearly $1.36 million, more than a half-million more than all the November Nine players received when they reached the final table in July.Moving from ninth in chips to seventh place sounds great, but Senti was a coin flip away from becoming a threat to make an even deeper run when his ace-king ran into Joseph Cheong's pocket 10s...read more

Jarvis exits WSOP Main Event after gut-wrenching final hand

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- In what might be the one of the most gut-wrenching eliminations in World Series of Poker final table history, Matthew Jarvis saw his tournament life see-saw back and forth four times. Unfortunately for Jarvis, the final change of fortune resulted in his elimination in eighth place.Jarvis moved all in with pocket nines only to be called by Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi's ace-queen suited...read more

Soi Nguyen, WSOP's last amateur player, finishes ninth

The World Series of Poker's lone remaining amateur player became the first casualty of the November Nine, as Cuong "Soi" Nguyen's ace-king fell to Jason Senti's pocket queens. Nguyen, who entered the final table in eighth place, took home $811,823, all of which was paid to him when the final table was determined in July.Nguyen left the tournament – accompanied by scores of friends and family chanting "Soi! Soi! Soi!" – confident that he played his best despite the early exit."I played all my hands correct today," said Nguyen in the lobby of the Penn & Teller Theater inside the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino...read more

The leadup to the November Nine -- the WSOP is all grown up

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- The final table of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker – dubbed the November Nine since the final table was delayed until the fall in 2008 – has drastically changed the way that poker's most important tournament of the year is viewed by poker fans.The change that affects most of those fans – those who will see the tournament on television – is the "plausibly live" coverage provided by ESPN...read more

Gaming leaders pleased with Reid re-election

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Consensus is that Nevada slot machine manufacturers and the Silver State's casino industry were the big winners in the 2010 midterm elections. The approval of ballot referendums in two communities in Maryland and Missouri could pave the way for some 6,000 slot machines at casinos in those markets. Meanwhile, gaming leaders said Tuesday night's re-election of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will benefit the casino industry in Washington, D.C. Lobbyists who represent the gaming industry said Reid, who won a fifth Senate term, clearly understands the casino business, having served a stint as the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. "Gaming is an industry that views federal regulation and oversight as both an opportunity and a threat," said R&R Partners CEO Billy Vassiliadis, a gaming industry lobbyist...read more

MGM Resorts completes Atlantic City sale

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- MGM Resorts International completed the initial portion of its divestiture from Atlantic City Thursday by completing the sale of the land underneath the Borgata.The company will collect net proceeds of $71 million for the approximately 11.3 acres.MGM Resorts announced the sale in July to Vornado Realty Trust and Geyser Holdings...read more

Deal Me In: R stands for right, rong or ravishing

Dear Mark: I read one of your columns online where you wrote, "speed kills in a casino environment." You were talking about the differences in blackjack between a dealer hand shuffling and machines that shuffle the cards. Here is where my question comes in...read more

Jeff Forrest wins WPT event at Foxwoods

MASHANTUCKET, Connecticut -- If you like your poker to be filled with suck-outs and overwhelming favorites losing to inferior hands, the World Poker Finals Main Event final table at Foxwoods was your cup of tea.After a night (and morning) filled with bad beats and see-saw chip leads, 22-year-old Orlando resident Jeffrey Forrest defeated family man Dave Inselberg to win $548,752 and his first major poker title...read more

Top-10 predictions for the 2010 WSOP Main Event final table

With two November Nine experiences under our belts, we're starting to get a better feel for how final table action plays out going on hiatus for nearly four months.Players, for the most part, don't get coaches. Their game brought them to the final table, and they don't want to make drastic changes.The final nine generally play a fair amount of poker to stay sharp...read more