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[Georgie Thompson]

Jon Macken scored twice to help ease Walsall's relegation fears with a narrow 3-2 home win over battling Brentford.

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[NASA]

In this image from 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its rock abrasion tool on a rock informally named "Gagarin" during the 401st and 402nd Martian days, or sols, of the rover's work on Mars (March 10 and 11, 2005). This false-color image shows the circular mark created where the tool exposed the interior of the rock Gagarin at a target called "Yuri." The circle is about 1.8 inches (4.5 centimeters) in diameter. Gagarin is at the edge of a highly eroded, small crater that was informally named Vostok for the spacecraft that carried Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the first human spaceflight, on April 12, 1961. This image combines exposures taken through three different filters by Opportunity's panoramic camera on Sol 405 (March 14, 2005). The view is presented in false color to emphasize differences among materials in the rocks and the soils.

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[NASA]

This artist's concept illustrates a young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets. Such stars are dimmer and smaller than yellow stars like our sun, which makes them ideal targets for astronomers wishing to take images of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer is helping to identify young, red dwarf stars that are close to us by detecting their ultraviolet light (stars give off a lot of ultraviolet light in their youth). Astronomers will use telescopes to try to image giant planets that orbit farther out from these stars, such as the one depicted here at lower left.

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[Carl Culture]

A nice shot of Worf with Gowron in the background from this sixth season episode of TNG.



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[Hillbilly Jim]

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[PokerNewsDaily]

This week, the Poker News Daily web series “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg” welcomes two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Dutch Boyd. The controversial poker player lets loose on a variety of topics, including PokerSpot and the ongoing TwoPlusTwo lawsuit. View Part 1 and Part 2.

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Before getting to the interview, Friedberg discussed the recently announced WSOP rematches that will take place during the 2011 tournament series. Chris Moneymaker will face off against Sammy Farha in a rematch of the 2003 Main Event finale, while Phil Hellmuth and Johnny Chan will recreate the magic from 1989.

On the upcoming rematches, which will air on ESPN, Friedberg lambasted, “I think the idea is absolutely stupid and I really wish they weren’t doing this. No matter what, you can never recreate the moments and therefore I don’t think it’ll have anywhere near the same level of excitement. I really hope this isn’t a desperate attempt for the World Series to get some more airtime on TV beyond the Main Event… I also think it’s unfair for players who are trying to build names for themselves today.”

Boyd then joined the show and noted that even though he holds a pair of gold bracelets, the industry tends to take a “What have you done for me lately” mantra: “I think that in poker, you’re only as good as your last tournament. I constantly feel pressured to prove that I am a relevant player because there are a lot of guys with two, three, and four bracelets that no one has ever heard of.”

The interview then focused on PokerSpot, which was the first site to offer online poker tournaments and split pot games back around the turn of the century. “It’s depressing when I think about PokerSpot,” Boyd acknowledged. “My little brother and I started this site and we had a couple of other partners. We were doing everything right… The only other online site when we got the idea and started developing was Planet Poker… The whole thing just kind of crashed. We tried to sell it a few times.”

Boyd confessed that he missed out on a lucrative opportunity with PokerSpot: “I was pretty close to being a billionaire. Instead, I got to be one of the most hated people in poker for a while. I like to think that time heals all wounds and it has been over a decade since PokerSpot failed. The fact is I’ll never outrun it.”

“There have been a lot of sites that have run into the same problems as PokerSpot ran into, which were for lack of a better word ‘innocent’ problems,” Boyd told viewers of “The Showdown.” He added, “One of the main things we can point to is that we all used our real names. The reason people knew who to throw mud at was because from day one of PokerSpot, we didn’t hide.”

Boyd is also an avid purchaser of domain names. In fact, he’s picked up 5,000 domain names since 2003. “I do a lot of domain investing,” Boyd bluntly admitted. “In 2004, I was going through a night registering hundreds of domain names and one of the ones I checked to see if it was available was TwoPlusTwoPoker.com and it wasn’t taken. I didn’t even think about it again until last summer.”

Boyd’s rights to TwoPlusTwoPoker.com expired in 2009 and he opted not to renew. However, the dual bracelet holder received a letter from TwoPlusTwo asking for $15,000 in damages: “When the lawyer e-mails me and says if you don’t give us $15,000, we’re going to respond with a trademark suit, I responded with a two-word answer. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this whole experience, it’s to be a little more politically correct with your responses to lawyers.” A lawsuit is ongoing.

Check out the rest of this week’s episode of “The Showdown.”



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[PokerNews]

Jose "Girah" Macedo has signed with an online poker site, so we'll tell you where you can take on the Portuguese Prodigy, a promotion from the WPT on Facebook, and more.

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[BluffMagazine]

Jose "Girah" MacedoPortugese poker prodigy Jose “Girah” Macedo has gone from complete unknown to a signed pro in a little under three months. Macedo, referred to by many as the Portugese Poker Prodigy, is the newest member of LockPoker.com’s LockPRO ELITE Team.“Jose is young, brilliant and incredibly determined. He is putting a new face, age [...]

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[WickedChopsPoker]

The 2011 tournament circuit is under the table.


On January 1st, 2011, Erik Seidel had a conversation with 2011.* It forever changed the course of poker for the year.

The conversation went something like this: “2011 tournament circuit, it’s me. Erik. With Full Tilt. No, not Lindgren. Seidel, the good-looking one. Yeah, yeah, the one from Rounders. Fuck you. Why does everyone always bring that up? You realize I’ve absolutely eviscerated Johnny Chan in every measurable way in poker and in life since then, right? It’s like I reverse Dunkleman’d him. Anyway, I’ve decided I’m going to do horrible things to you, 2011 tournament circuit. Why? Because I’m Erik Freaking Seidel, that’s why. Are you familiar with a little something NBA players call The Trinity? No? Good. Then here’s what going to happen. First, I’m doing this to you. It’s going to be like you were cleaning the cobra pit, got bit, and you’re trying to suck venom out of your arm knowing if you don’t get it all out, that’s it, you’re done. By the way, I’m hung like Shaq. Then I’m going to bend you over and this is going to happen. Yep. I’ll even wear that exact sameSUCKINGHOBBITDICKScostume, just to mess with you. Try to get that image out of your head. You can’t.SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSNext, we’ll do a little Haley Reinhart, or what can best be described as this. And just when you think that’s it, I’m done, I can’t do any more, to cap it all off, the coup de gras–that’s a French expression, by the way–I’m going to do something that resembles this. Don’t ask, just trust me, I can pull it off.”

With 9 remaining at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open, Seidel is stacked third overall with 526,000. He trails overall chip leader Steve Barshak (seen here, right foreground, in an impressive Girls on the Rail shot) with 601,000.

Other notables remaining include Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler (226,000), Ali Eslami (204,000), and Thomas Marchese (182,500).

Get full chip counts here. Watch the latest Jess & BJ Show here.

UPDATE: That was quick. Play went from 9 to 6, and Erik Seidel 69′d the tournament, going into TV final table play third overall at 645,000.SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSWilliam Reynolds leads with 1,169,000.SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSTom Marchese is fifth with 175,000. Chainsaw went out in 8th and overnight chip leader Steve Barshak bubbled the TV table. Get full chip counts and recap here.

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[CardPlayer]

2011 WSOP Circuit Western Regional champion Ali Eslami gives advice on limit-hold'em, and how it differs from no-limit in this episode of 'Poker Strategy' on Card Player TV.

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