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Poker bloggers, Falstaff and Special K, have taken to the Internet airways with the all new Gambling Tales Podcast. They already have their first installment in the can and available for listening. Listen to the premier edition of the show at http://www.gtpodcast.com. It's 40 minutes of easy listening with an interesting analysis of the 2009 WSOP Main Event final table followed by an interview with "A-list" poker blogger and math whiz, Bad Blood. The show concludes with a bit of early gambling history.

Upcoming shows will feature Dr. Pauly, Lee Jones, and internationally acclaimed gambling expert Dr. David Schwartz, author of the definitive history of gambling tome, Roll the Bones. New shows will be broadcast every two weeks.

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GamblingTalesPodcast

Available on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=339814710.

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The Venetian Deep Stack Tournament IV continues through Nov. 25.

And now, all tournament players in the Deep Stack Extravaganza will get access to a free buffet. That's pretty impressive, as The Venetian doesn't have a regular buffet. Chow down between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and show your tournament entry receipt.

Remaining no-limit tourneys (all begin at noon):

Tuesday, 11/17 $340
Wednesday, 11/18 $340
Thursday, 11/19 $340
Friday, 11/20 $340
Saturday, 11/21 $550
Sunday, 11/22 $275 (super satellite)
Monday, 11/23 $2500 (main event, day 1)
Tuesday, 11/24 $2500 (main event, day 2)
Wednesday, 11/25 $2500 (main event, day 3)

Sit-n-go satellites run throughout the day beginning at 8 a.m., with lammers awarded that can be used for any tournament, even for the next Deep Stack.

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After four years of success running the world's best known poker tournaments, Jeffrey Pollack, resigned his position as Commissioner of the World Series of Poker on Thursday and will leave the Harrah's organization at the close of business today. Pollack is generally credited with taking the WSOP from the confines of Binion's in downtown Las Vegas to the Rio Resort's huge convention facilities.

Additionally, Jeffrey Pollack, negotiated lucrative sponsorship contracts with national and international corporations. He also worked closely with ESPN Sports TV to provide the world a ringside seat at the WSOP poker events and is credited with creating the 4 month break between the summer tournament and the Main Event's November final table.

Jeffrey Pollack said he has no definite plans for the future, but will pursue other interests and business opportunities. Harrah's stated they have no immediate plans to fill the Commissioner of the WSOP position.

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In an abbreviated session heads-up that lasted less than four hours the 2009 World Series of Poker crowned the youngest player to ever win a WSOP Main Event. Joseph Cada is a 21-year-old from Michigan that now claims the title of World Poker Champion after eclipsing the record set last year by 22-year-old Peter Eastgate.

Cada takes home a winner's purse of over $8.5 million and a very special bracelet from the 40th anniversary edition of the World Series of Poker. Darvin Moon, a logger from Maryland, traded the chip lead with the young player a number of times before the final hand was dealt and Joe Cada took all the chips with a pair of Nines.

Watch all of the November Nine playing the final table of the 2009 WSOP tonight on ESPN at 9 PM ET. Included in tonight's two hour show is all the action from the heads-up match between Moon and Cada and it's delivered on the same day it was played.

A gallery of photos from the 2009 WSOP Main Event November Nine Final Table will be posted in a few days including exclusive backstage photos.

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Tonight at 10 PM PT the final two players will take their seats on the stage at the Penn & Teller Theater inside the Rio Resort in Las Vegas to decide the World Championship of Poker. An unlikely pair of poker players consisting of a logger from Oakland, Maryland, Darvin Moon, facing the youngest finalist to make a Main Event heads-up match, Joseph Cada, a college dropout from Shelby Township, Michigan.

Joseph Cada goes into this evening event with a commanding chip lead of 136 million to Moon's 59 million. The winner will receive $8,547,042 in cash and the the most coveted prize in poker, the WSOP Championship Bracelet, while the runner-up walks away with a cool $5,182,928.

Fans can catch the action on ESPN Tuesday evening at 9 PM ET. Two hours of coverage from the final table that will conclude with the winner claiming the championship. Follow along as it happens with PokerNews' hand-by-hand live blogging and Flipchip photographs. Poker's premier writer, Dr. Pauly, is offering his WSOP coverage and sanitized observations of the event as it happens. It all begins tonight, Monday, November 9, at 10 PM PT.

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WSOP Poker, play it and they will come by the thousands to watch and cheer for their favorites. The Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio resort is filled and a long lines of fans are waiting outside in the corridor for a seat to open.

The November Nine returned from the four month break and will play down to the final two players tonight. The two finalists will return on Monday evening to go heads-up for the $8.5 million reserved for the 2009 WSOP World Champion Poker Player.

Short stacked James Akenhead was the first player eliminated from the table by Kevin Schaffel. Unfortunately, Kevin Schaffel was soon eliminated in 8th place. At the dinner break 7 players remain including crowd favorite Phil Ivey.

Stop by PokerNews.com and follow all the action as it happens. You can also catch more of Flipchip's photos on PokerNews, the official and only live blog of the event.

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Most of the WSOP talk this week has been orbiting around Phil Ivey, poker's Superstar. Can he come from the back of the pack and charge to the lead to go heads-up with one of the other eight players? Chips and luck averaging out of a two-handed contest would make Ivey the favorite to take poker's biggest prize. That outcome would let it be known that a "King of Poker" had been crowned at a Coronation of Elimination in Las Vegas, the WSOP at the Rio All-Suite Resort. Hail! King Phil I.

Ivey fans are reminded that ESPN's award-winning primetime newsmagazine E:60 tonight at 7 PM ET will be taking a close look at professional poker superstar Phil Ivey. If you just can't get enough of poker's elusive king then grab a copy of ESPN The Magazine for the suitable-for-framing photo of Phil Ivey on the cover.

Tune into ESPN Sports TV tonight at 9 PM ET for two hours of WSOP Main Event March-to-the-Nine poker show. Viewers will finally get to meet the November Nine as the great tournament begins the evening with 18 players and concludes at the nine. Expect plenty of coverage of Phil Ivey.

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