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Sports On TV: The Three Stooges’ 15 Greatest Sports Moments
The Three Stooges were a comedy act that lasted from 1925 until 1970 (!), and yeah, while the majority of their act was showcased in theatrical shorts, their lasting cultural relevancy comes from a...
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Sports On TV: Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s 20 Greatest Sports Moments
This week on Sports On TV, we tackle the horror/comedy/drama/everything else of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer,’ the 1997-2003 hit that catapulted Avengers director Joss Whedon into public consciousness,...
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Poker Champ Greg Raymer Allegedly Went All-In On Some Prostitutes
"I will take two blumpkins, please."Hey, remember Greg Raymer, the every guy, average Joe who, along with Chris Moneymaker the year before, came out of nowhere to win the 2004 World Series Poker Main...
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Poker Players Victorious Over Hackers Who Stole Naked Pictures From Them
Two men were sentenced yesterday, and a third will be sentenced later this year, for their roles in extorting several professional poker players. Specifically, Tyler Schrier and Keith James Hudson...
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Sports On TV: 15 More Great Sports Moments From Saved By The Bell
The very first show featured in our Sports On TV column was ‘Saved By The Bell,’ and with good reason. It’s one of those shows we’ve all seen whether we like it or not, and face it, you can’t spell...
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Phil Ivey Won $12 Million Playing Punto Banco And The Casino Refused To Pay Up
World-renowned poker star Phil Ivey spent a few nights at the Mayfair casino Crockfords in London last October, and normally that wouldn’t be news, because he’s a pro poker player and all, but the...
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John McCain Played Poker On His iPhone During Yesterday’s Syria Hearing
Oh yeah hey we’re probably going to be going to war with Syria soon. YAY WAR! Happy Tuesday. So ANYWAY, yesterday the Obama White House sent some important folks like human sleeping pill/Secretary of...
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With Leather’s Watch This: Meet Javonte Douglas, The Guy Who Gave Us This Dunk
This grainy, low definition footage that looks like it was salvaged from my old rabbit ears set features College of Central Florida star Javonte Douglas throwing down one hell of a slam dunk against...
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Jose Canseco Lost His Finger During A Poker Game And Tweeted About It
Getty Image Jose Canseco has been busy the past few months. First, he allegedly shot his finger off in late October. Then he tweeted about astrophysics and aliens on Wednesday. Now, according to these...
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Why Did This Poker Player Decide That Peeing At The Table Was A Good Idea?
Getty Image Professional poker player Antonio Esfandiari had a bet and he intended to keep it. No, the bet wasn’t to hold his bladder until it was ready to burst, forcing him to release his schwang at...
View ArticleThis Poker Player Learned A Valuable Lesson After Prematurely Celebrating A Hand
If you’re not an avid poker player, it can be tough to run through all the scenarios of what beats what in your head in a split second. For pro poker player Jiri Horak though, he probably wished his...
View ArticleThat Abusive Poker Player Everyone Hates Won A Hand By Being Really Annoying
Remember the annoying douchebag from that World Series of Poker hand you watched the other day? He rambled for like three minutes because he has some social awkwardness issues, then some Canadian dude...
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This Poker Player Broke Out The Bluff Of A Lifetime To Take A $162 Million...
The World Series of Poker has lost much of its cultural cache since its heyday in the mid-aughts, but it still is one of the best games in town for agonizing tension and armchair psychology. This...
View ArticleThe Most Insane Poker Hands Of 2016 Will Make You Never Want To Gamble Again
We’re no longer in poker’s golden age of the mid-2000’s, but the game still has the potential to thrill and captivate us. While Chris Moneymaker’s win in the 2003 World Series of Poker may have...
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These Are The Most Brutal One-Out Poker Bad Beats Of All Time
FuryTV Unlike watching an abusive player berate an opponent or witnessing someone get bluffed out of millions, bad beat stories are only interesting when they happen to you. They’re just like a...
View ArticleROUSSO CAN’T LICK SEED IN POKER TOURNAMENT
One of the more prestigious poker tournaments is NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Champioship. “Heads up” simply means that players compete one-on-one in tournament no-limit hold ’em. Vanessa Rousso...
View ArticleTHEY TALKED ABOUT POKER YESTERDAY
The State Senate of South Carolina heard arguments in the city of Greenville over whether to legalize home poker games and raffles. Yes, raffles are illegal in South Carolina, presumably along with the...
View ArticleOLD-SCHOOL COMPUTER POKER
If you’re a degenerate gambler spawned from the Lascivious virtual concubines of online poker, you’ll appreciate this early EARLY version of what amazingly does pass as computer poker. It’s a post...
View Article‘YOU GIRLS LIKE POKER? I LIKE POKER, TOO!’
I feel like a real degenerate for not having posted any coverage of the World Series of Poker, which started earlier this month, but here’s a quick, almost-no-look recap of every story line coming out...
View Article500 PLAYERS SHUT OUT OF WSOP MAIN EVENT
There have been an assortment of recent complaints surrounding what’s commonly regarded as poker’s world championship–the $10,000 No-Limit Hold ’em tournament that has served as the World Series of...
View ArticleGOLFER LOSES AMATEUR STATUS…ON A BET
Carbon Poker‘s blog tells us the story of Dusty Schmidt, aka “Leatherass,” who’s already my second-best friend but doesn’t know it yet. He’s an online poker pro, internet entepreneur, and competitive...
View ArticlePHIL IVEY MAKES *THE* FINAL TABLE AT WSOP
Unicorn Dealer is sick of reminding you guys to stop splashing the pot. One of the better aspects of a slower news day in sports is that you can lead off with a poker story, and do we have one: Phil...
View ArticleTV STARS: NOT ALL OF THEM ARE DICKS
Yesterday in Brooklyn, television stars gambled for charity. David Cross (left), Michael Ian Black (right), and “This American Life” host Ira Glass (standing at table) all participated in the Honest...
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GOOD NEWS IF YOU HATE POKER ON TV
Some people will insist that poker on ESPN is nothing short of a sign of the apocalypse, and though I respectfully disagree, I see their point. But there are signs that people might finally be growing...
View ArticleGOOD NEWS FOR WII-PLAYING, ANIME PERVS
If you’ve grown weary of the prudishness of your Nintendo Wii, enjoy poker, and don’t live in Australia, then this news is for you. Wii’s “Sexy Poker” is a downloadable game that lets you play Texas...
View ArticleBREAKING: I GOT DRUNK IN VEGAS
Over the next week or so, Josh will recap some of his adventures at Blogs With Balls 2.0, the new sports media conference held last weekend in Las Vegas, presented by FoxSports.com, Yardbarker.com,...
View Article'MR BELDING' SIGNED MY SHIRT
I might have mentioned that I spent last weekend in Las Vegas for the Trash Talk Championship of the World, which to my surprise was neither full of trash-talk nor worldly. But it was a very good time,...
View ArticlePOKER PLAYER TAKES GUNSHOT IN CHEST
Most poker players will tell that playing a gutshot is a bad move, especially when that specific shot comes from a .22 caliber pistol. This is Antonio Esfandiari, often referred to as “The Magician”...
View ArticleMore Poker Tonight? Eh, You Twisted My Arm…
Most of you that have read this site know that I will drag myself naked across broken glass for a poker game. Fortunately, I avoided that for this latest event, a charity hold’em tournament benefitting...
View ArticleVideo From My Worst Card Game Ever
This time I was at The Venetian for Jennifer Harman’s charity poker tournament benefiting the Nevada SPCA. I happened to be in the neighborhood (seriously) and they offered to buy me in if I told...
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Pornstar Plays Poker. Insert Terrible Poke-Her Pun Here.
The World Series of Poker’s main event starts this weekend, and if you weren’t aware, I suggest you start bucking up on it. If not for the love of the game, then because the lovely lady pictured isn’t...
View ArticleYour WSOP Main Event Preview, Featuring Very Little Actual Poker
Many poker players will tell you that their game is not about luck, but rather is a game of skill laced with “variance.” But in a tournament of over 6,000 people, it’s hard to argue that luck isn’t...
View ArticleLive Straddle: WSOP Day 1A Recap
Yesterday’s Action: Day 1A. “Beechmont Avenue!” Greg Raymer, the 2004 Main Event winner with those fun sunglasses, kicked off the event with that famed announcement of “Shuffle up and deal!” Hopefully,...
View ArticleLive Straddle: Rocket Scientists Need Not Apply
PUNTE is in Las Vegas covering the WSOP Main Event. For more daily updates from the Main Event, follow his dedicated page at facebook.com/JoshAtWSOP. Today’s Action: Day 1C. This is the day that noted...
View ArticlePoker Champ Bored With Poker. It’s Another Live Straddle
PUNTE is in Las Vegas covering the WSOP Main Event. For more daily updates from the Main Event, follow his dedicated page at facebook.com/JoshAtWSOP. Peter Eastgate won the Main Event just two years...
View ArticleGoing Big Or Going Home: The Live Straddle Is On
PUNTE is in Las Vegas covering the WSOP Main Event. For more daily updates from the Main Event, follow his dedicated page at facebook.com/JoshAtWSOP. The book on multi-day tournament poker is to make...
View ArticlePhil Ivey Has Left The Building
Phil Ivey surprised the poker world last year when he managed to wade through another largely-amateur field to reach the WSOP Main Event’s final table and a place among the November Nine. That won’t...
View ArticleLive Straddle: The Price Of Poker Has Just Gone Up
PUNTE is in Las Vegas covering the WSOP Main Event. For more daily updates from the Main Event, follow his dedicated page at facebook.com/JoshAtWSOP. Today’s Action: Day 3. 2,557 players remaining....
View ArticlePoker In Your Respective Lane Assignment. One Last Live Straddle
Today’s Action: Day 7. We’re playing down to 27 players today. Media access has been restricted to outside the perimeter of the tables, which really has put me in a bad mood. I really have no idea of...
View ArticleAnnie Duke Is The New Poker Sheriff
On Tuesday, it was announced that Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack have created Federated Sports and Gaming, and, in cooperation with the Palms Casino Resort, a brand new poker league that will employ a...
View ArticlePoker Sites Go Up The River
Poker Shutdown On Friday the F.B.I. seized the websites of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker and temporarily froze 76 bank accounts associated with the sites. Online gambling in the U.S....
View ArticleUS Online Poker Needs A Suckout
Whether one plays Texas Hold’em in brick-and-mortar casinos or pot-limit omaha online, there was bad news to digest for the poker world over the weekend. The federal government seized the domain names...
View ArticleR.I.P. ESPN Poker Coverage
This news will make some of you jump for joy, but I personally find it depressing: ESPN has pulled all of its poker programming in the wake of the federal goverment’s indictments of the big online...
View ArticleESPN cancels all poker programming following Feds shutdown of websites
Wow. When I mentioned yesterday, in a post on the far-reaching implications of the FBI shutting down the three largest online poker outlets in the world, that the crackdown would have major economic...
View ArticleWill U.S. Online Poker Players Get Their Money Back?
Web-Related Legal News As you may have heard, the F.B.I. seized the websites of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker and froze their bank accounts. The site owners face charges of money...
View ArticleMorning Links: Good Morning and Welcome to A Website
Those are vegan links, by the way, which is why they look like they were freshly squeezed out of a dog’s butt. I’m Brandon Stroud, and for those of you who don’t know me, I’m your editor and...
View ArticleTobey Maguire won “$1 million a month” playing illegal poker
Tobey Maguire’s double life as a high-stakes poker player is coming to light as a result of an FBI investigation into a an embezzling hedge-fund manager who was also a degenerate gambler (shocking, I...
View ArticleYou Can Watch People Playing Cards Sorta Live Now
The World Series of Poker just started its 42nd Main Event tournament today, and I’m going to give you a good reason why you should care. First off, most people get the Main Event and the WSOP...
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A 25-Year-Old Won The 2017 World Series Of Poker On A Bonkers Final Hand
Twitter Poker is a game of odds, but sometimes odds are meant to be beaten. For Scott Blumstein, beating the oddds meant winning more than $8 million in Las Vegas on Saturday. Blumstein won the 2017...
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This Bonkers Hand Won A Pro Player $700,000 Off Two Poker Legends
YouTube Poker is a cruel game, especially when you’re playing against a bunch of pros. You might think your cards put you in a great position before you ever see the flop, but oftentimes luck comes to...
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