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LAS VEGAS–Sorry for the lack of updates, Party people … we’ve been hard at work getting a new site off the ground. Check it out at PokerBlog.com. Very exciting stuff, particularly if you are a uber-geeky poker blogger type like me. To be sure, a lot has been going on at the 2006 WSOP — bracelets have been won, Phil Hellmuth lost, and the rest of us have been...

Congrats to Mike O’Malley (and, of...

It must’ve been a good table … because Party’s poker-room manager Mike O’Malley finished in an admirable 19th place (out of 265) in the $5,000 Omaha hi-lo event. His payout: $7,473. Not a bad two-days work. Sammy Farha, however, did a little better — particularly for a guy who’s Omaha prowess is in the pot-limit variety, as opposed to Omaha...

So many cards, so little time …...

Amir Vahedi did not make the money in the $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo event, but he looked like he was gonna when we tracked him down to ask about the key components of Omaha tournament strategy: MP3...

Re: History in the Making?...

Phil Hellmuth and the online kid are still duking it out. And the kid seems to be playing with reckless abandon, which has Phil a little flummoxed. The enormous crowd — stacked 20 rows deep in some spots — seems split, half of them cheering for Hellmuth, half of them booing. As it stands now, Jeff Cabinilla — not sure how old he is, 20something for sure — has...

History in the Making?...

They’re down to heads-up in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event. Phil Hellmuth is contending for his 10th WSOP bracelet. He’s already set a record with the most cashes in WSOP history — this one making 51. And if he can pull off the win here, he joins Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan in the 10-club. So who stands in his way? A kid … Jeff Cabinilla from East LA...

Party Player Profile...

Screen Name: suchajackass Real Name: Jon Knauf Hometown: Garland, TX Right now, he is in 6th chip position with 16 players left in the $1,500 7-card-Stud event. Other notables still alive include Johnny Chan, Jim McManus, David Williams, and Miami John Cernuto. Said Jon at the beginning of the day: “I’m #7 in chips going into Day 2 of the Stud event. I’ve never...

Scenes from the WSOP: $5,000 Omaha hi-lo...

The tournament action is really kicking here at the Rio. Phil Hellmuth is fighting for his 10th bracelet on the TV table (ESPN brought in the junior-varsity squad to chronicle it all, David Williams is the chip leader in the 7-stud event (which is down to three tables), and lots of big-name pros are just getting started in the $5k Omaha hi-lo event. Have a look: TOC champion Mike...

As (Not?) Seen on TV...

From the dept. of: Ooops! The final table of the $5,000 NLHE event at the WSOP looks to be the most exciting yet. Marcel Luske, Vinny Vinh, and Isabelle Mercier are all there … so is Phil Hellmuth, with his record-tying 10th bracelet on the line. But who’s not there is ESPN. Their crews have gone home for the weekend. I actually have a sidebet with the venerable blogger...

Getting Better All the Time...

Ed in Dallas writes in: Hey Dan! Loving the blog entries on what is going on … my fav is the bit about the WSOP being like online poker…and how PP folk should do well because they have home field advantage. keep it up!! Thanks, Ed, for the kind words. We’re still just getting rollin’ here at the PartyPoker Players Blog, figuring out what we can do (and how to...

Funny Guy, Serious Player...

About 10 minutes after I put up the post requesting PartyPoker players to introduce themselves, Norm MacDonald popped into the media room. Though he’s no pro, the former SNL Newscaster apparently is no slouch at the tables. He had just chopped up the chips in a $525 single-table satellite. (Satellites pay the winner in multiple blue tournament buy-in chips, worth $500 each, and a...