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For our latest webisodes of The TOKE, we talk with Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate.
Demidov said he thinks Eastgate was the best of the remaining November NineTM and shares his thoughts on
WSOP Finalist Ivan Demidov pre- 2008 World Series of Poker final table news conference
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Who would you rather?
Well, we’re kind of at a loss here.
The 2008 WSOP Main Event will come down to a Russian vs. a Dane, with Ivan Demidov going heads-up against Peter Eastgate sometime around 10pm tonight.
Barring some info on either that we don’t know about yet, we can say that neither of them would be categorically bad for poker.
But we’re not sure if either would be categorically good for poker either.
Which, like last year when that one guy beat the other guy, they are more likely just categorically Meh for poker.
Categorically.
The good news is that neither appears to be a fluke, like the guy who won last year. Demidov finished third at the WSOP-E Main Event, cementing his poker creds. Eastgate appears to be the real deal too. If Eastgate does win, he’d break Phil Hellmuth‘s record as youngest Main Event champ, which would get some decent press among the so-called poker media and maybe some mainstream pubs.
But bottomline is neither is a U.S. American, a woman, or a particularly dynamic personality. Daniel Negreanu they ain’t. So we can’t see either moving the needle much and getting more than a few die hards excited. More likely, the winner will be greated with a collective "meh" and shoulder shrug from the mainstream public.
Outside of the soon-to-be rich Demidov and Eastgate, the big winner in this is really Poker Stars, who can promote the hell out of these guys in Europe, where poker is still booming and where these two may have some broader appeal.
For a more play-by-play recap of the action, go here or to Dr. Pauly’s here.
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At least a Canadian won’t win this year’s WSOP. We’re tired of those Junior Americans up north winning poker tournaments.
Having just lost something like 23 million chips a few hands earlier to Ivan Demidov, Scott Montgomery was down to around 7M and bound to go out soon. We just can’t see Montgomery patiently waiting for a monster. He’s the type of guy who would shove with one card and a pretzel if he could and say something with his Canadian accent like "Well I’m pretty sure you don’t have a pretzel so I know I have at least one live card even though a pretzel isn’t really a card eh but please don’t call but even if you do and I get knocked out I can probably afford to buy the Vancouver Canucks now."
So he shoved with A-3 and was called by Peter Eastgate‘s 6-6. Montgomery flopped an Ace and turning a set, but a 6 fell on the river giving Eastgate a boat.
Montgomery is gone in 5th place, banking $3,096,768.
Follow the action here or with Dr. Pauly here.
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For some reason, every final table someone who doesn’t really need to go all-in with some Ace-rag does and gets knocked out.
This year’s winner is Darus Suharto.
With blinds at 250,500 and 8,550,000 in chips, Darus re-raised Scott Montgomery all-in with A-8. Now open shoving with A-8, ok. Or repopping with two cards that are likely live, great. But A-8 you’re just asking for it. Montgomery went in the tank (Darus had molded a tight table image) and eventually called with A-Q, which held when the board turned the nut flush.
Suharto’s A-8 now joins
With Suharto’s elimination, the stacks are getting pretty closely lumped together.
Chip counts: Peter Eastgate – 40,500,000, Scott Montgomery – 31,950,000, Ivan Demidov – 25,125,000, Ylon Schwartz – 19,375,000, Dennis Phillips – 19,275,000.
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One of the worst things that ever hit our ears was when Tommy Lee, during an episode of Cribs, thanked Starbucks for hooking him up with some "coffee love" when they installed a bean machine in his basement.
The only thing that really has ever sounded worse than that are those horrible Carl’s Jr commercials with people loudly eating their disgusting hamburgers. So many letters/emails were written to Carl’s Jr’s ad agency about our hatred of the campaign, we’re surprised a restraining order wasn’t filed.
Anyway, along with the words "plethora," "synergy," and "philanthropy," anything "love" was officially banned from the vocabulary of the Entities.
However, we’re brain-dead today and getting a little bit lazy. So with the November NineTM just days away, here’s some more love for espn.com’s coverage of the happenings:
Friday and find out how to enter in and win a free 30 minute poker lesson from Phil Gordon. Also listen to all the N9TM interviews. [link] { 1 comment }
Just getting Part II of our podcast up. No poker here. 100% discussing and debating The Walking Dead. We’re joined by an esteemed panel, including Jason Newitt, Dave “F-Train” Behr, Jeff Holsey, and Entities Chops and Colin. If you were a fan of the show, you’ll like the debate. We discuss problems with the show, [...]
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We recorded a two-parter podcast yesterday. Part I is now live and discusses The Rise and Fall of Ray Bitar WCi feature with its author, Dave “F-Train” Behr. In it, F-Train details the interview process for the feature, as well some conclusions that could be drawn about the man who helped make Full Tilt Poker the [...]
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