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Capello - Wilshere will cope

Fabio Capello has no fears about Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere lasting the pace next season.

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Jake Cody Wins WSOP $25K Heads Up Championship, Secures Triple Crown

If you didn’t know the name Jake Cody before now, it’s time to start paying attention. The 22-year-old from Rochdale, England accomplished an extraordinary feat late Friday evening, taking down the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship at the World Series of Poker to complete the last leg of poker’s Triple Crown. Cody has now won events at the WSOP, European Poker Tour (EPT), and World Poker Tour (WPT). And they all came within a 15 month period. Incredible.

Cody wiped out two world-class players Friday to earn the coveted gold bracelet and $851,192 in prize money. He first defeated Gus Hansen in the semifinals, a shock to many considering Hansen had won 12 straight WSOP heads up matches going back to his bracelet win in the WSOP Europe Heads Up event last year.

Cody advanced to play another young superstar, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, in the final. Timoshenko defeated two-time bracelet winner Eric “E-Fro” Froelich in the semis, and like Cody was eyeing his first bracelet. Both players had a rail of noisy supporters in their corner, setting up a ferocious bout at the ESPN feature stage.

After nearly three hours of play, both players were getting low on wiggle room and the match turned into a pre-flop shoving contest. Cody would get the best of it, as on the final hand of the match Timoshenko limped the button, Cody moved all in and Timoshenko called. Cody turned over Kc-9c, which trailed Timoshenko’s Ac-5s. But the Kh-Qd-4h-6h-4d board gave Cody a pair of Kings, securing the title and placing him in a class with the likes of Roland de Wolfe and Gavin Griffin.

His rail busted out into a chant of “Triple Crown, Triple Crown,” as Cody smiled proudly and took in what he had just accomplished. Cody was named the 2010 EPT Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year in February for his achievements on the other side of the pond. He’s well on his way to becoming the 2011 WSOP Player of the Year with Friday’s victory in the toughest heads-up tournament on the planet.

Timoshenko, meanwhile, collected $525,980 for his second-place finish. It was a disappointing result for the former WPT Championship winner, who told ESPN’s Kara Scott that it was the tournament he wanted to win most at this year’s WSOP.

Here’s a look at Top 8 finishers at the WSOP $25,000 Heads-Up Championship:

1. Jake Cody — $851,192
2. Yevgeniy Timoshenko — $525,980
3. Gus Hansen — $283,966
3. Eric Froehlich — $283,966
5. Matt Marafioti — $138,852
5. Anthony Guetti — $138,852
5. Nikolay Evdakov — $138,852
5. David Paredes — $138,852

Also picking up hardware on Friday was Francesco Barbaro, who defeated the biggest Omaha Hi-Low field in WSOP history to collect $262,283. Event #3 began with a whopping 925 players and Barbaro was the last man standing after defeating Kostas Kalathakis heads-up for the victory.

The final table began with three familiar pros, the most recognizable being Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes, who was the lone bracelet winner at the 10-handed final table. He was joined by Matt Waxman and last year’s Russian sensation, Vladimir Schemelev. Waxman survived to make the top three, but it was clearly Barbaro’s tournament from the beginning as he sent both Waxman and Kalathakis to the rail to secure his first WSOP bracelet.

WSOP $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better Results:

1. Francesco Barbaro — $262,283
2. Kostas Kalathakis — $161,675
3. Matt Waxman — $104,770
4. Bradley Helm — $76,673
5. Michael Deveronica — $56,943
6. Humberto Brenes — $42,857
7. Cam McKinley — $32,654
8. Vladimir Schemelev — $25,174
9. Travis Pearson — $19,617
10. Richard Monroe — $15,484

Stay tuned to Poker News Daily as we recap all the action from Saturday’s events at the Rio in Las Vegas.

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WSOP By The Numbers: Heads-Up, POY Figures, and More

TheSUCKINGHOBBITDICKS2011 World Series of Poker is full of facts, figures, stats and records. SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSWith so many numbers being crunched day in and day out, sometimes it is tough to see what they all add up to. SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSThat is why each day BLUFF brings you some of the more interesting numbers related to the news of [...]

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Poker Strategy -- Set Mining Part 1

This strategy column, and many like it, are featured in every issue of Card Player magazine. Subscribe today to get 26 issues delivered to your home each year! This column â€¦

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Mystery Person Contest

Rasta Sunset ::: Simon Morelli

http://www.photoburst.net/photo_sect...on-morelli.jpg Rasta Sunset ::: Simon Morelli ::: In the quiet evenings on the island of Zanzibar, Rastafarians gather on the beach of Stone Town, to watch the sunset while traditional boats called Daw return to the sand.

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Palio Horse Race, Siena

One year of hopes,no more than ninety seconds to make the dream come true. Ten jockeys,dressed in the representative colours of their ÃƒÂ¬contradaÃƒÂ®,riding bareback magnificient horses while citizens on the bleachers scream for pride,circle three times Piazza del Campo to win the "Palio". A whirlwind of feelings,colours and flags play this magic atmosphere wherein people crowded in the square can only use their arms as telescopes to see the horses ride by their camera shot. I panned the camera with the moving horses and jockeys so that they remain sharp. Because in those seconds they are all. (This photo and caption were submitted to the 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.)

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About Jane:

Jane Smaldone was born in New York City. She received a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art in 1976.

Previous series have included landscapes and still lives painting, but her current focus is painting portraits of her twelve-year-old daughter, Isabel. Her stylistic influences include Chinese landscape painting, Surrealism and North American folk art.

Smaldone views her creative practice as an act not of representation but transformation, encompassing the past, the perceived present and the imagined future.

Her work has been exhibited locally and several times in Canada.

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