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Author: Gary Wise
WSOP: WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
‘Who’s going to win?’ is a question as old as competition itself, and for as long as know-it-all writer types ...
October 21 2012, by Gary Wise
HELLMUTH’S WIN SATISFIES THE GHOSTS
I wrote last week about how impressed I was by Phil Hellmuth and his performance at the World Series of Poker ...
October 13 2012, by Gary Wise
My Hall Of Fame Vote Debated: Conclusions About This Year’s Hall Of Fame Vote
The ballots have been cast, so the debating is done. As mentioned earlier, my votes can’t be revealed, so this ...
October 06 2012, by Gary Wise
Negreanu Bets On GPI
On Saturday, an interesting little piece of GPI-related business went down over on a little site called Twitter. There, Daniel ...
September 29 2012, by Gary Wise
DEBATING MY HALL OF FAME VOTE, PART 3: THE PIONEERS
Dividing nine individual candidacies into neat three-person packages shouldn’t be easy, and to say the candidacies of Eric Drache, Tom ...
September 29 2012, by Gary Wise
DEBATING MY VOTE FOR THE POKER HALL OF FAME PART 2: THE SHARKS
Last week, after writing part 1 of this series, I let my editors know there was a chance I’d be ...
September 24 2012, by Gary Wise
DEBATING MY VOTE FOR THE POKER HALL OF FAME, PART 1: THE AMBASSADORS
I have the privilege of being a voter for the Poker Hall of Fame, so it was with perked ears ...
September 15 2012, by Gary Wise
CHRISTIAN HARDER ON VARIANCE AND THE GPI
The GPI’s lack of a more explosive recency bias could be argued as a weakness. After all, it’s measuring success ...
September 09 2012, by Gary Wise
MIKE “TIMEX” MCDONALD: BACK AT THE TABLES
With the grass on the other side always being greener, success made easy is bound to be taken for granted. ...
August 30 2012, by Gary Wise
DANIEL NEGREANU: ENJOYING HIS COUCH
Daniel Negreanu @RealKidPoker If there is a better, more comfortable feeling than being back on your couch after a long trip ...
August 26 2012, by Gary Wise
A GOOD DAY FOR POKER, GPI
We all know poker is a game that involves some elements of both luck and skill, but the question of ...
August 23 2012, by Gary Wise
MATT GLANTZ FINALLY ENJOYING THE SPOTLIGHT
Two years ago, no one knew who Matt Glantz was…at least, no one who learned the poker world by watching television. ...
August 18 2012, by Gary Wise
THE ALL-TIME MONEY LIST AND WHY GPI MATTERS
Money has always been a way of keeping score in poker, the ultimate measuring stick in ...
August 13 2012, by Gary Wise
WHO IS THE OCTOBER NINE FAVORITE?
Just in case you’re completely uninitiated, the main event just played its way down from 6,598 players to nine, with ...
July 30 2012, by Gary Wise
NOTABLE WSOP MAIN EVENT RISERS FOR THE 7/30/2012 GPI UPDATE
It doesn’t matter how big buy-ins around the world get, the World Series of Poker main event always has been, ...
July 30 2012, by Gary Wise
THE GPI NON-RISE OF PHIL IVEY
As with any system, the GPI can only measure results, which means its function is to measure the success of ...
July 30 2012, by Gary Wise
TOP GPI RISERS IN THE TOP 100, 2012 WSOP
With the end of the 2012 World Series of Poker’s spring/summer portion, we reach the conclusion of the densest portion ...
July 25 2012, by Gary Wise
TOP GPI DROPS IN THE TOP 100, 2012 WSOP
In general, the end of the World Series of Poker is a time where we celebrate winners. The vast majority ...
July 25 2012, by Gary Wise
