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A Dozen will meet in The Preakness Stakes

post from Buzz on Gambling, Online & Casino on 10 May 2008 09:37:47 PM. © Buzz on Gambling, Online & Casino

Hey Byrn, Icabad Crane and Riley Tucker were added to the list of starters for next Saturday’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.The Preakness field is now up to 12.Trained by Eddie Plesa, Hey Byrn won Gulfstream Park’s Grade III Holy Bull on April 12. His Preakness jockey hasn’t been announced.belmont park, big brown, buzz b berkeley, [...]

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Phil Ivey wins Poker After Dark - Again!

post from Do or Die Poker on 10 May 2008 06:25:44 PM. © Do or Die Poker

I just watched Phil Ivey take down his second Poker After Dark championship. This guy is every bit as good as advertised. Ivey literally called out Howard Lederes hands on 3 different occassions, and...

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Happy Mother's Day!

post from Hella Hold'em on 10 May 2008 05:12:00 PM. © Hella Hold'em

To all the mom's out there, happy mother's day! I'll be spending the day with my mom and the rest of my family. I spent a couple hours in the darkroom this afternoon, making gifts. :)

Work has gotten crazy as we wrap up the semester (thus the crickets around here the last couple weeks). I've finished taking the final exams in the classes I was in as a student (photography and meteorology), and next week will give finals in the classes I'm teaching. Then, hallelujah! Summer! Hard to imagine summer break when it's only 60 degrees here, tops. Weather has been crazy in Chicago this year!

I should be getting some poker in shortly, particularly since FTP offered a bonus due to some delay on withdrawals. Alrighty then!

Awww heck maybe I'll play a little now while surfing. Maybe a little NL cash game. Haven't done that in a while.

If it "sticks," maybe I'll blog it... Gotta go put up my Project 365 photo of the day first.

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World Series of Poker Celebrity Props

post from Poker News at the Bodog Beat on 10 May 2008 01:18:56 PM. © Poker News at the Bodog Beat

Jennifer Tilly is one of the favorites to win Bodog's latest WSOP prop bet. (AP Images) Bodog's got some more WSOP prop bets upThe latest bet is on which poker playing celebrity will make the most money at the World Series of Poker Main Event.Jennifer Tilly definitely jumps off the page ...

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Montel Williams playing sit-n-gos all day at
Golden Nugget

post from Prof's Vegas Poker Blog on 10 May 2008 12:56:00 PM. © Prof's Vegas Poker Blog

If you happen to be in downtown Las Vegas right now, Montel Williams has taken over the Golden Nugget poker room. And not the Montel Williams for charity events, this is his own money, your own money, and money won...

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World Series of Poker Blogger Props

post from Poker News at the Bodog Beat on 10 May 2008 12:48:50 PM. © Poker News at the Bodog Beat

Daniel Negreanu is the WSOP Main Event blogger favorite. (Bodog Beat Image) The 2008 World Series of Poker is coming up and Bodog has just revealed its first couple prop bets. Inspired by the success of their Blogger Poker Tournament Series the first prop to go up lets you bet on ...

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"Come On Fulham!"

post from CC on 10 May 2008 06:06:00 AM. © CC

Craven Cottage, 2006

The Barclay's Premier League/EPL. Probably second to the NFL, the Premiership is the best that sports has to offer. Tomorrow is exactly why.

At the top of the league, Chelsea is tied with Manchester United atop the lead. The regular season is the thing in soccer, and it is simple and just. 20 teams, play every team home and away, then add up the points for wins (3 pts) and ties (1 pt). Subtract the goals you score vs those you give up and you have the goal differential for the season. Man U is ahead of Chelsea on goal differential by 17 goals, so Chelsea must have a superior result to this weekend to take the title. They host Bolton Sunday, and Man U will travel to mid-tier Wigan.

It's the bottom of the table that makes soccer leagues around the world exciting until the last day (except for the US). Fulham, owned by Harrod's mogul Mohamed al-Fayad, dropped to the bottom three of the twenty teams at the first of the year and have been down there ever since. Now if you were the Royals or Knicks or Raiders, that would be an unfortunate situation but hardly desperate. But this is the EPL, where the bottom three teams drop out of the Premiership. With the loss goes the estimated $35mil in revenue and the prestige of the Premiership. And what happens if you drop from the Premiership? Look no further than Leicester. They played in the UEFA Cup in 2001, the tournament for top European teams who do not qualify for the Champions League. This season, their record in the League Championship division (Triple-A) pushes them down to League One (Double-A) next season.

With three wins in the last four games, Fulham has clawed their way up to 17th place with 33 pts and a goal differential of -23. 18th place Reading (33pts/-29) and 19th place Birmingham (32pts/-19) both need a result to escape the drop. Reading has the easiest path, traveling to 20th place Derby County (11pts/-65). Birmingham hosts 7th place Blackburn (58pts/+5) and their stingy keeper, American Brad Friedel.

Fulham travels to 8th place Portsmouth (57pts/+9). Known as Pompey, Portsmouth could be faulted for overlooking this game. They play Cardiff next Saturday in the FA Cup final, England's most prestigious soccer tournament. The FA Cup hearkens to the Indiana High School basketball tournament of old, made famous by the movie Hoosiers. In the FA Cup, literally every professional and semi-pro team in England play in the tournament, so Cardiff (in the League Championship division) has a chance to play in Wembley Stadium and take home the hardware of the FA Cup.

Fulham's future will be intertwined with three of their five Americans. Kasey Keller signed up with Fulham earlier this season, a seemingly over-the-hill goalkeeper unclaimed by any other team around the world. He may not be automatic in the back, but he is certainly solid. Clint Dempsey also signed with the club in the middle of the season. The former Furman All-American leads the team in goals and is now a mainstay in the starting XI.

Brian McBride, now the team's captain, is the heart of the team. Last year's leading scorer for the squad had a catastrophic dislocation of his kneecap at the beginning of the season. He's the epitome of workmanship; we'd call it leaving it all on the field if we were talking about football here. No one will outwork him on Sunday, probably no one in the EPL. And he may have his own blood all over him by the end of the afternoon.

Fulham has a tough task in front of them, lessened by Pompey's looming FA Cup match next weekend. I like Reading leapfrogging the other two tomorrow and snatching the final berth in the Premiership next season, but I'll be pulling for McBride and the Cottagers. No one will be tanking tomorrow to move up in draft position, that you can guarantee.

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-Voguepergola- Takes Down Event #5 of FTOPS VIII.

post from Online Poker News about Poker Players | Poker Forums and News Blog on 10 May 2008 05:05:40 AM. © Online Poker News about Poker Players | Poker Forums and News Blog

THAY3R Bubbles 2 FTOPS Events In One Night!As previously mentioned, online poker whiz 'THAY3R' bubbled Event #4 in 13th - then proceeded to bubble Event #5 in 11th - OUCH! His finish didn't mean much to the final 8 players that made up the final table of Event #5 ...

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-EMSBas- Wins FTOPS VIII Event #4 and $48k!

post from Online Poker News about Poker Players | Poker Forums and News Blog on 10 May 2008 05:05:40 AM. © Online Poker News about Poker Players | Poker Forums and News Blog

$215,200 Prizepool in FTOPS VIII Event #4 PLHE.Full Tilt Poker pro Marco Traniello was the final table host at Event #4 this past evening, commentating during the entire final table of the Pot Limit Hold Em FTOPS tourney.The guaranteed prizepool was surpassed by $15k+, and in all 1,076 players would ...

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FTOPS VIII Events #2 and #3 in the Books.

post from Online Poker News about Poker Players | Poker Forums and News Blog on 10 May 2008 04:04:57 AM. © Online Poker News about Poker Players | Poker Forums and News Blog

$240+$16 PLO and $500+$35 NLHE Crown New Champions.1,070 players showed up Thursday evening to play in the FTOPS VIII Event #2, putting the total prizepool at $214,000 for the Pot Limit Omaha tournament. 108 players would end up making the money, and in the end it would be 'whothedonk' beating ...

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