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In the movie The Devil's Advocate, there's a scene early on where Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves are negotiating a contract on a roof top.

Pacino, as it's revealed, is Satan personified in the form of a successful lawyer named John Milton.

Reeves is a hotshot, undefeated defense attorney from Florida. He doesn't know it, but he's the Devil's son.

No wonder he never lost a case. Yikes.

Never mess with a hungry Wolfe pack.

On Monday at the WSOP, U.K. poker pro Roland de Wolfe had something to prove. Having finished sans-bracelet for the past three years - despite making a final table each year - de Wolfe finally quelled his hunger with a win in Event 27, $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8-or-Better.

Adding the bracelet to his WPT and EPT victories, de Wolfe is now just the second winner of poker's Triple Crown (Gavin Griffin being the other).

We never figured the Swedes for knock-off artists. Cheap furniture that's difficult to put together yes, but not knock-offs.

Apparently we were wrong. They've knocked off Allen Iverson.

Meet Alex Ivarsson. Like a Sorny or Panaphonic, the difference is barely noticeable. Personally we can hardly tell the two apart. You be the judge.

Ivarsson, or maybe Iverson, is among the chip leaders in the $2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event that will play down to a winner later today. We're hoping he takes it down so we can go party with the Detroit Pistons. No wait ...

Michael DeMichele was such a nice boy when he final tabled the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at last year's WSOP.

This year, the kid from East Haven, Connecticut has shown up with a new badass image complete with visor, scarf and stubble.

The Main Event approacheth, and in light of that, I've started to think about who I'd pick to take it down.

I hear and read a lot of people talking about how poker's popularity is on the decline. Personally I think that's a silly idea that's fueled by what sort of ratings poker pulls on television.

Serious poker players need no introduction to Tony Shelton. The barrel-chested man with the gray handlebar mustache has been a fixture in Las Vegas poker rooms for nearly 40 years.

You've seen the hand on High Stakes Poker: Jamie Gold hits his set of kings on the turn, but the king also fills up Patrik Antonius' straight. It's the biggest pot in the history of the show, $740,000.

It was a Saturday night short before Christmas. I needed a break in my Bayesian readings. Judgment under uncertainty is really fun; you can never be sure of anything, but you can substantiate your hypothesis and act on it.

With December upon us, one reporter has been wondering who in the poker world's been good this past year and who's due for a lump of coal in their stocking. Because he's the kind of guy who really does eat, sleep and breathe poker, he shares with us here some inside info he's been made privy to…

In the game of Roulette, you put all your chips on one number - and if you hit it, you're flying, and if you miss it, you're crying. In the game of the WSOP Main Event Poker Roulette, picking your player is the same game.

While big name poker pros have garnered more than their fair share of celebrity status in the last few years, the real stars still hail from Hollywood. And even among the biggest names in the game, these show-biz personalities have a magnetism that fans and ESPN cameras alike are unable to resist.

As far as World Series' go, the 2007 iteration of the WSOP had plenty of defining moments. The best is yet to come, no doubt, with the crowning of the Main Event champion on July 17th, but until that happens poker fans can tide themselves over with the triumphant images of Phil Hellmuth winning his eleventh bracelet and of Allen Cunningham and Erik Seidel solidifying their places among poker's elite.

The Main Event kicked off today. This is Poker's Super Bowl. The grand daddy of them all. The big dance. Just about any other large event cliché you want to throw out there will stick to this thing.

The male-to-female ratio in the media room at the World Series of Poker is approximately 22:6. That's a live count, courtesy of the statisticians at www.PokerListings.com.

It's been another crazy week at the World Series of Poker, and beyond the stories of Hellmuthian triumph and Elezra-fying performances, a number of intriguing subplots have emerged to carry insomniac poker fiends through the rare minutes when PokerListings.com is not providing live updates.

Day 18 of the 2007 WSOP saw the good, the bad and the questionable go down inside the Amazon Room at the Rio.

As loyal PokerListings.com readers, you're already aware that Phil Hellmuth won his record 11th WSOP bracelet last night, hidden behind a shroud of black felt that enraged Mike Matusow and delighted the always-publicity-conscious Poker Brat. You're also aware that Allen Cunningham took home his fifth WSOP bracelet the day before, and that British Columbians and Canadians in general have been destroying the competition at every other WSOP final table of note. But after 12 days of poker in the palace of degeneracy, plenty of salacious side stories have emerged that maybe you're not aware of…yet.

The second event on the World Poker Tour's sixth season has kicked off, and Day 1 from the Mandalay Bay Poker Championship was a day for the forums. The commencement of the five-day, $10,000 main event saw the usual frenzy of poker action, with a little flavor in the form of burgeoning romance, and even the return of a few forum Hall of Famers to their familiar haunts.

What are the odds of a former World Series of Poker champion taking the Main Event again this year? A look at recent years says: not good. Four of the five most recent winners were relative unknowns before their victory - in particular those qualifying online (we're looking at you Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer).

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