2009 WSOP live coverage

Live Coverage of the 2009 WSOP

May 28th, 2009

Full Tilt Poker is doing live coverage from the 2009 World Series of Poker, they have a whole page and several blogs dedicated to it. You can see there WSOP live coverage page here. The Full Tilt series coverage has several of the top pros twitter feed as well. Andy Bloch, Jon Turner aka pearljammer, Roy Winston, and Micheal Craig are just some of the pros who will be blogging. Mike Matusow, Josh Arieh, Howard Lederer, and other Full Tilt pros have started tweeting about the 40k event 2. For the most part, I don’t like Twitter, but it’s really good to get some juicy poker gossip. I wonder if other pros will be reading tweets of players at their table to get tells on them? Will pros start intentionally tweeting disinformation to throw off their opponents? I’m just thinking ahead I guess, but I do think this tweeting will add a new aspect to the already cerebral game of poker.

When I read Beth Shak’s Twitters, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The one day she was upset her limo driver had to stop and pay at the toll since he didn’t have an EZpass. She doesn’t complain much, but I found that Tweet difficult to swallow. Her Facebook is full of railbirds who want to try to get the MILF to respond to them. The other Tweets are like: “Just lost all in pre KK to AJ” “Just lost AK to AQ”. So maybe I’d like to get some juicy poker scene gossip instead of pre flop bad beat stories in NL tournaments. So bring it on! Lets hear about the cute waiter! Lets hear about that pretty dress! I’m tired of bad beat stories!
She actually is a compulsive tweeter:

Every 10-30 minutes of her waking hours. She does do allot of charity events though so that is very good!

I’d really like to have someone follow Phil Ivey around an tweet while hes playing high stakes golf or shooting craps. Sort of like the Mind of Ivey but via twitter constantly. They would have to be really good luck, the opposite of William H. Macy in The Cooler. I think Barry Greenstein costs Phil Ivey 500k every time he sweats him at the craps table. BTW some lady named Pat DeMauro, just set the record for rolling dice without rolling a 7. She rolled for 4 hours and 18 minutes. She rolled the dice a total of 154 times before ending her steak. A one in 3.5 billion chance! If Ivey ever goes on a roll like that he will own Harrahs. Actually, if he just goes on a 45 minute roll he might be able to bail out the USA.

Rafe Furst probably has the most interesting Facebook posts but only 10% of them are about poker. He is really one of the top intellectual bloggers in the world.

Mike Matusow should be interesting to follow with his insider views to the high stakes poker world. He’s always into something, but lately hes been a bit chill with his girlfriend keeping him in line. He just tweeted that hes down to 77k in the 40k event.

Keep track of all your pros chip counts, gossip, and insight at Full Tilt Poker’s new live twitter coverage of the WSOP.

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