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Battling Jesus and Poker Gods in WC2
“RAISE 2,000,” I say, and toss my chips on to the table. My face is carved from granite, but my heart thumps so loudly it could start its own drum ‘n’ bass label. In any big poker tournament there’s always one Table of Death, the one table where all the top pros happen to be seated. And I’m on it. This is Day One of the prestigious World Series of Poker Europe, which for two weeks takes over the Casino at the Empire in London’s own beating heart, right on Leicester Square. Gathered here today for poker glory and a...
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THE first official tournament in the World Series of Poker Europe. The globe’s very best players… and me. With a hangover. Last night I was at the WSOPE launch party at London’s glamorous Casino at the Empire, drinking with ex-World Champs like Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. He looks like Jesus would, if Our Lord and Saviour played the devil’s game: black beard, black preacher’s hat, slow patient style. I played him once and he folded every hand for an hour. Here’s Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott,...
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Dominic has written and blogged about poker for The Times, Time Out, City AM, London Lite, the Evening Standard and the Sun. In the last seven years the game has taken him to Vegas (7x), Atlantic City, Macau, Paradise Island, Paris, Rome, Dublin and swinging from a crane above London’s City Hall. His biggest cash was £3,700 at the World Series of Poker Europe. He is seeking a publisher for a book about his experiences. Click here for poker articles and blog.
read moreWorld Series of Poker Europe, 2009: 1
“YOU look like a million dollars”. That’s what they say. But who’s actually seen a million dollars? Well now I have, at the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), in tight tempting little bundles of crisp hundred-dollar bills. And they’re right. It is a knock-out. Untie the bands holding the cash together and you could put it on Page 3. On the first day of the WSOPE, running in London’s Casino at the Empire until October 1, one lucky player in the Betfair Free Poker Million, 23-year-old Anestis Metsas,...
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