WSOP Final Table: "Official" News, Results, and Discussion

[Easy E]

Is 4pm "local" vegas time, or 2+2 time?

As to the other, I don't know who's providing "live" coverage. Card Player is blogging some hands- check their site and go to the WSOP live updates section

[Easy E]

It's too late to buy in and sneak some souvenir chips into your stack. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Ghazban]

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It's too late to buy in and sneak some souvenir chips into your stack. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Damb, you got me [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

I was just curious as to what the 50K chips look like. The text reports have described them differently so I don't have a good mental picture. Obviously, I'll see them on TV but the big denomination chips didn't get used (I don't think) until the ME so it'll be quite a few weeks until the later rounds make it to ESPN.

[Kevmath]

www.gutshot.com will have a "virtual" final table (using pokerchamps software) as well as have their own audio stream with what has been announced as Hansen, Luske, Juanda, Seidel and Barry Martin of Gutshot.

Kevin...

[Guernica4000]

Anyone but the "Mouth" !!!!!!!!!!!

Would poker be as big as it is today had Mike Matusow been at the final table or won it instead of Moneymaker?

From cardplayer.com

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:28:00
Title: Matusow and Sheikhan
Log: Matusow and Sheikhan continue lobbing insults and taunts at one another, much to the delight of the crowd. One of them appears to be taking it much more seriously than the other. We won't say which one, but it's not Matusow.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:36:00
Title: Comedy Hour at the Binion's
Log: While Mike Matusow and Shawn Sheikhan continue to banter back and forth on table 117. Scott Lazar, in the two seat on table 129 leaned back from the table and decided to join in the banter. Lazar leaned back and suggested, "Switch that table to decaf!" The joke lightened the escalating confrontation between Matusow and Sheikhan.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 23:26:00
Title: WSOP or WWE
Log: At the final table, it is hard to tell if we are at the World Series of Poker or a World Wrestling Entertainment event. Mike "The Mouth" Matusow and Shahram "Iron Sheik" Sheikhan have tossed verbal jabs at one another all day, It just got a little Jerry Springer like at the final table when Matusow went into a long diatribe about giving Shahram a million bucks and then beating him out of it on the felt. The crowd went nuts, Sheikhan’s supporters started pushing towards the stage and someone was escorted out the doors by security. The tension is high with $24 million up for grabs between the remaining players.

The guy is just an idiot. I still remember him yelling at Raymer and then crying like a little girl when he got busted.

ANYONE BUT THE MOUTH!!!!

[Douche Bag]

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Anyone but the "Mouth" !!!!!!!!!!!

Would poker be as big as it is today had Mike Matusow been at the final table or won it instead of Moneymaker?

From cardplayer.com

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:28:00
Title: Matusow and Sheikhan
Log: Matusow and Sheikhan continue lobbing insults and taunts at one another, much to the delight of the crowd. One of them appears to be taking it much more seriously than the other. We won't say which one, but it's not Matusow.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:36:00
Title: Comedy Hour at the Binion's
Log: While Mike Matusow and Shawn Sheikhan continue to banter back and forth on table 117. Scott Lazar, in the two seat on table 129 leaned back from the table and decided to join in the banter. Lazar leaned back and suggested, "Switch that table to decaf!" The joke lightened the escalating confrontation between Matusow and Sheikhan.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 23:26:00
Title: WSOP or WWE
Log: At the final table, it is hard to tell if we are at the World Series of Poker or a World Wrestling Entertainment event. Mike "The Mouth" Matusow and Shahram "Iron Sheik" Sheikhan have tossed verbal jabs at one another all day, It just got a little Jerry Springer like at the final table when Matusow went into a long diatribe about giving Shahram a million bucks and then beating him out of it on the felt. The crowd went nuts, Sheikhan’s supporters started pushing towards the stage and someone was escorted out the doors by security. The tension is high with $24 million up for grabs between the remaining players.

The guy is just an idiot. I still remember him yelling at Raymer and then crying like a little girl when he got busted.

ANYONE BUT THE MOUTH!!!!

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GO MIKE!

[benza13]

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Anyone but the "Mouth" !!!!!!!!!!!

Would poker be as big as it is today had Mike Matusow been at the final table or won it instead of Moneymaker?

From cardplayer.com

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:28:00
Title: Matusow and Sheikhan
Log: Matusow and Sheikhan continue lobbing insults and taunts at one another, much to the delight of the crowd. One of them appears to be taking it much more seriously than the other. We won't say which one, but it's not Matusow.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:36:00
Title: Comedy Hour at the Binion's
Log: While Mike Matusow and Shawn Sheikhan continue to banter back and forth on table 117. Scott Lazar, in the two seat on table 129 leaned back from the table and decided to join in the banter. Lazar leaned back and suggested, "Switch that table to decaf!" The joke lightened the escalating confrontation between Matusow and Sheikhan.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 23:26:00
Title: WSOP or WWE
Log: At the final table, it is hard to tell if we are at the World Series of Poker or a World Wrestling Entertainment event. Mike "The Mouth" Matusow and Shahram "Iron Sheik" Sheikhan have tossed verbal jabs at one another all day, It just got a little Jerry Springer like at the final table when Matusow went into a long diatribe about giving Shahram a million bucks and then beating him out of it on the felt. The crowd went nuts, Sheikhan’s supporters started pushing towards the stage and someone was escorted out the doors by security. The tension is high with $24 million up for grabs between the remaining players.

The guy is just an idiot. I still remember him yelling at Raymer and then crying like a little girl when he got busted.

ANYONE BUT THE MOUTH!!!!

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After last year's World Series I would have agreed with you. But everything I have read, seen and heard since then has made me really like Mike and I am definitely pulling for him this year. At this point another amateur winning is not going to increase the pool of fish for anything except the WSOP qualifiers. Mike sometimes acts like an ass at the table, but its his way of needling people (and is a hell of a lot better than H-Dog's tactics). Mike is a pro who lets his emotions out a little too much and it is clear that others who know him understand this and that they generally feel he is a great guy. Even he and Raymer have become friendly this year after last years incidents, and Mike seemed genuinely disgusted about the play that took Raymer out.

I guess this is a longwinded way of saying GO MIKE, show everyone that the pro's can still do it in the donkfest that is the ME.

[Smackdab]

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Anyone but the "Mouth" !!!!!!!!!!!

Would poker be as big as it is today had Mike Matusow been at the final table or won it instead of Moneymaker?

From cardplayer.com

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:28:00
Title: Matusow and Sheikhan
Log: Matusow and Sheikhan continue lobbing insults and taunts at one another, much to the delight of the crowd. One of them appears to be taking it much more seriously than the other. We won't say which one, but it's not Matusow.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:36:00
Title: Comedy Hour at the Binion's
Log: While Mike Matusow and Shawn Sheikhan continue to banter back and forth on table 117. Scott Lazar, in the two seat on table 129 leaned back from the table and decided to join in the banter. Lazar leaned back and suggested, "Switch that table to decaf!" The joke lightened the escalating confrontation between Matusow and Sheikhan.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 23:26:00
Title: WSOP or WWE
Log: At the final table, it is hard to tell if we are at the World Series of Poker or a World Wrestling Entertainment event. Mike "The Mouth" Matusow and Shahram "Iron Sheik" Sheikhan have tossed verbal jabs at one another all day, It just got a little Jerry Springer like at the final table when Matusow went into a long diatribe about giving Shahram a million bucks and then beating him out of it on the felt. The crowd went nuts, Sheikhan’s supporters started pushing towards the stage and someone was escorted out the doors by security. The tension is high with $24 million up for grabs between the remaining players.

The guy is just an idiot. I still remember him yelling at Raymer and then crying like a little girl when he got busted.

ANYONE BUT THE MOUTH!!!!

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I have to admit Matusow has grown on me. His tantrums this year appear to be self-depreciating caricatures of himself. He's taking on the "bad" guys and leaving the "good" guys alone. Unlike last year when he came off looking like a tool, this year he seems to be using his image as a weapon with a purpose. Gonna be an interesting final table with "The Mouth" there among the unkowns. Too bad his nemesis from yeaterday has packed it up but I'm sure Mike will find a new target.

I'm pulling for Matusow here and looking forward to the ESPN broadcasts of the ME.

[trm22]

Here's another story from March this year:

http://www.cardplayer.com/cpeurope/a...=10&m_id=3

[UMTerp]

Steve Dannenmann article from today's Washington Post