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The Big Poker Show rolls into town today for the 41st time and will add another chapter to the rich history of the game. The 2010 World Series of Poker opens today with the Poker Player’s Championship event #2, a $50,000 Buy-In challenge that draws poker’s elite from dozens of countries around the world.

There’s also a WSOP tradition, the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em event #1, a $500 Buy-In tournament limited to workers of the poker industry.

For the only official live blog coverage direct from the green felt of the WSOP tables go to PokerNews.com. Hundreds of photos published as it happens.

Today, Friday 28th, sees a full moon rising in the East. How many years before another WSOP begins on a full moon?

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At daybreak Sunday Morning the 2010 World Series of Poker handed the first gold bracelet to event #1 winner, Hoai Pham. He will be returning to his home in Mission Viejo, California with the new trinket, $71,424 in cash, and knowing his name will always be in the WSOP history book.

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Tune into NBC TV at Noon - 3PM ET / 9AM - Noon PT for the finale of the 6th Annual NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship today, Sunday May 23. Three hours of top level poker pros playing the semifinal matches and the best-of-three final matches for the prestigious title.

Begin the three hour episode with the four surviving players from the elite, invitation-only starting field of 64. Watch poker history in the making as Annie Duke notches the first win by a female player in the history of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

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Game 6 in Boston could very well be the biggest game yet in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

In case you haven’t been paying attention to the 2010 NBA playoffs, this year’s league MVP LeBron James and the heavy favorites to win the title, that’s the Cleveland Cavaliers, are on the verge of being sent off to an early summer after the Boston Celtics won Game 5 in Cleveland convincingly, 120-88, to take the 3-2 series lead and give themselves a shot at eliminating the Cavaliers this Thursday night in Boston.

Yep, the Cleveland Cavaliers are in a whole lot of trouble and I can’t even stress how badly these guys NEED to win Game 6 in Boston and force a Game 7 back home in Cleveland. If the Cavs lose this, they can kiss the NBA title goodbye for the second straight year as the odds on favorites to win the title.

To make matters worse, a loss could also mean that LeBron James may have played his last game in Cleveland as a Cleveland Cavalier.

That’s right, we may have seen James playing in Cleveland in a Cavaliers uniform for the last time and if our last picture of LeBron as Cleveland’s king is watching him lose to the Boston Celtics 120-88 after shooting an awful 3-14 from…

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One of the key things that separates good players from mediocre ones is their ability to radically change how they would play a hand in an identical situation - against different players - depending on history.

Good players will do totally different things against different player types - even with the same hand, on the same board, with the same stack size; and understanding why and when to make these changes is crucial to working your way up the stakes.

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