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With the HORSE feed bag put behind us, we now find ourselves staring at a different breed. The $50,000 event that started with 148 players has now fallen below the 100 mark. Though we're not yet at the point at which the stress causes heart palpatations, things are starting to...more

People who wandered wide-eyed into the poker revival tent a few years ago cannot be faulted for believing Hevad Khan is a barbarian, that Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier is a cold-hearted witch, and that Joe Hachem begins every sentence with "Pass the sugar." When one's perspective is built on what...more

It's rare to see Isabelle Mercier disappear from the World Series. If it happens, it's generally her time to catch some R&R at the Bellagio. She generally reappears within a couple of days, tanned and clutching a cup of coffee. When she vanished a couple of weeks ago, though, she...more

The name of this tournament -- $50,000 HORSE -- is something like a reporter's dream. Equine puns abound on media row: saddle up, giddy up, go. But if we think about it for a moment, the horse-race analogy is not especially appropriate. Far from being a grunting, thunderous sprint to...more

With only one notable exception, today was not one in which we expected any major celebrations or bracelet anticipation. Today was a day of beginnings. For the first day of the $50,000 HORSE event, we convened for the first time this year in the Amazon room's press box and settled...more

Just under the surface of the HORSE event lays the fact that a few players are beginning to feel the heat of the blinds. One of whom is Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Daniel started the day in typical high spirits and nearly eight hours later remains in the same...more

Have we mentioned the pace of this event yet? It bears repeating – this is poker distilled into its purest form and each player has 50,000 reasons not to bust out. Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein sits at a poker table like you or I might sit if we...more

There's likely a very good reason they call horse racing the sport of kings. Something about King Charles II, his mistress, and the king on the back of a horse. It's a sordid tale probably best left off the pages of a family poker blog. You don't see many kings...more

For the coming few weeks, just as for the past several years, the PokerStars blog will do its collective darndest to bring you details of all the commitment, colour and creativity on display on this grandest of poker stages. And when every last drop of that stuff has been...more

I've never seen Greg Raymer turn green and start turning over cars. That said, I'd be careful to not make him angry. The guy rarely, if ever, tilts. In fact, the only time I've seen him really, really mad was when a heckler started making inappropriate comments about his family...more

From the moment the Amazon room opened this morning, it was clear today was not going to be a normal day. The tables in the orange section of the Amazon Room had been spaced out such that you could lay two NBA players end to end on the floor and...more

And so now we look at the World Series from a different perspective. Unlike past years that saw the PokerStars Blog watch every single event, this year we rested up a bit before jumping into the middle of the madness. Today, we have climbed the stairs to the top level...more