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World Series of Poker champion of the 2008 $1,000 Ladies’ No-Limit Hold’em event, Svetlana Gromenkova, was born and raised near Moscow, Russia. Her education endeavors brought her to the United States in 2002. This is when she took up residence in Brooklyn, New York and studied Psychology at New York University. While living in Russia, Gromenkova played bridge professionally. After moving to the U.S., her card interests changed from bridge to poker and she began playing poker online.

Read more about Svetlana Gromenkova here.

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Only days after the World Series of Poker, Jeffrey Pollack has announced that hes leaving his post as commissioner of the WSOP. Jeffrey Pollack is the flamboyant character with the glasses, who is the main representative for the Harrah’s popular poker tournament championship.

Jeffrey Pollack Resigns as commissioner

Pollack tells the AP that leaving is “bittersweet,” but he believes his goals at the series have been accomplished.

Jeffrey was once a director of NASCAR and Vice President of the NBA. Jeffrey has not stated where he is going after this.

Did he get sick of all the poker brats? This is very odd to do this right after the final table of the WSOP. Perhaps he wanted to quit long ago, but had to wait months for the November 9? Isn’t that ironic? Is this part of a bigger shake up thats about to happen with the World Series of Poker?
Maybe this has something to do with having to turn away players on day 1d….

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Joe Cada VS Darvin Moon

Play will resume Monday evening at 1 am eastern time. Joe Cada and Darvin Moon will play heads up for the WSOP main event bracelet. Joe Cada has a stack of 135,950,000 vs Darvin Moon chip count of 58,850,000. Darvin and Joe both made some questionable plays and or sucked out to be the final 2. However, you do have to get lucky sometimes to win a tournament that big and maybe Moon’s fold for 6 million more enabled him to be where he is at. I’m not defending the fold, just saying if he lost the other 6 million, maybe he wouldn’t be there. Poker is a sick game at these levels, and people sometimes make irrational decisions. Darvin had 2 3 outers, both with AQ’s that were dominated. Joe also made a bad move with 33 and was down to 1 million in chips, making it one of the all time greatest comebacks in poker history.

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Phil Ivey Eliminated from World Series of Poker

Phil Ivey pushes all in AK under the gun and gets called by Moon with AQ. Moon spikes a queen on flop and Ivey doesn’t improve. It’s a very sad day for me and I’ve watched Ivey walking a thin tight rope for 12 hours only to lose to a bad beat for all his chips.

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