What Poker Can Learn From the Olympics
In case your Friday night included something more interesting than watching TV (mine didn’t), I’m here to tell you that the summer Olympics “started” with the Opening Ceremonies tonight. Actually, the...
View ArticleHow Many Olympians Have Played in the WSOP? (Six and counting …)
In comparing the Olympics to the World Series of Poker, I didn’t plan to write about this, but Justin Shronk asks: “Have any Olympians ever played in the WSOP?” I stayed awake about an hour last night...
View ArticleRE: What Poker can Learn from the Olympics
As mentioned below, I’m currently watching Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh dominate the Japanese in women’s beach volleyball (poker-playing b-baller Jason Kidd is also watching the game, albeit from...
View ArticleMore Poker at the Olympics
Brendan Hansen … American swimmer … just got third in his semi-final in the 100m breaststroke. (Really, how amazing is that — to be able to breast-stroke the length of a football field in less than a...
View ArticleThe Olympic Face of Poker: Vanessa Rousso?
While I can’t keep up with all of the Olympic coverage, I’m doing my damnedest. My TiVo has been working in hyperdrive, recording everything airing on NBC, the USA network, and CNBC, and I’m watching a...
View ArticlePoker Terms Heard at the Olympics Not counting “Chinese”
Race (rowing) Seat 2 (rowing) Boat (rowing) UPDATES: horse (gymnastics) skill (gymnastics) floor (gymnastics) shuttlecock (not a poker term, but should be) (Funny … while typing this up and watching...
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Re: How Many Olympians Have Played in the WSOP? Michael Phelps seeking seat...
As BJ Nemeth’s earlier entry mentions, there’s been a few Olympians who’ve played at the World Series of Poker. But none of them would top the credentials of Michael Phelps (from the NY Times:) An avid...
View ArticleNovember Nine only Dancing with Who Brung Them?
Earl Burton has an interesting post up wondering why the sponsorship dollars for the WSOP main event final tableists haven’t been rolling in. While he leaves room for the possibility that it’s just a...
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Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps Might Be Sorry He Mentioned Poker
The swimmer who stunned the world by setting a new record with his eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing made a statement in one of his post-amazing-feat interviews. Michael Phelps...
View ArticleAnother Poker Offer Extended to Olympic Athlete Michael Phelps
Maybe one of these days he will accept an offer. Swimmer Michael Phelps came off an historic Olympics with eight gold medals. And in one of his numerous post-feat interviews, he mentioned that he might...
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Olympian Michael Phelps Asks to Meet With Doyle BrunsonCan we talk, legend to...
Michael Phelps made history at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics by winning a record eight gold medals. And his comments to the press about wanting to play some poker in the future garnered much...
View ArticleRe: (Shhh, Don’t Tell Anyone)
A comment from the USAToday.com sports editor regarding commentors complaints about the “spoiler” of the WSOP Main Event winner in the headline: To our readers: We regret offending the handful of...
View ArticlePoker on IceTriple-Axeling the Shark?
I swear we’re not going gay(er than usual) here at Pokerati … but that song we told you about a long time ago, Poker Face by Lady Gaga, has now been turned into a male figure skating routine: In...
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Poker-playing Olympians to Cheer forLet the Games Begin
The Winter Olympics get underway today, and we thought PokerStars you might appreciate some heads-up on who out there on the slopes, in the rinks — and hopefully on the medal stand — knows a thing or...
View ArticlePoker2Nite S2 Episode 2
Here’s this week’s Poker 2 Nite episode on Versus, featuring interviews with Annie Duke and Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter.
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