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Begleiter, 47, earned his way to the final table for the World Series of Poker's Main Event beginning Nov. 7 at the Rio Hotel. To get there he had to outlast all but eight others in a field of 6,494 in play over the summer. He's already won nearly $1.3 million (as has each finalist) and is shooting for the top prize: an additional $7.2 million. (See the financial crisis after one year...
Some of the pros, anyway, are licking their chops at the prospect of facing Begleiter. "He'll call big raises and reraises with hands that no pro would play," says pro Phil Hellmuth, who is coaching Shulman. He calls Begleiter "a loose cannon" who could lose all of his chips to Shulman in a single hand. "At some point he's going to make a mistake...
...time poker has had its share of successful amateurs in recent years, some of them simple garage gamblers with a dream of getting in a high-stakes game and, when they finally do, riding good cards and tight play to a money finish. Indeed, the current chips leader in this event (with 58.9 million chips) is Darvin Moon, 45, an honest-to-god logger from Maryland. (Read "The New King of Poker...
...Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens said. “We stacked the front—there were more numbers there than they could block. They ran over a couple of our guys, they put a couple of guys on the sideline—just very, very physical play with a couple of different backs...
...take it upon ourselves to make sure that Gino gets 100-plus yards rushing, Treavor gets 100 yards rushing, Collier [Winters] has all the time in the world,” senior center Alex Spisak added on behalf of the offensive line. “We play like we are the best because we are the best...