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$10K Chip color-up at the final table of the 2006 WSOP Main Event. Anyone checking the changers?

Today’s offerings from the Poker Prof’s Las Vegas blog include a mix of links to stuff from other bloggers. Amy Calistra, serious research journalist and Texan, of Aimlessly Chasing Amy, has done some digging with co-author Tim Lavalli about the appearance of an additional $2 million in chips at the 2006 World Series of Poker’s Main Event final table. Two Million Questions. Will Poker Answer? is an in-depth 3-part article that investigates and debunks some of the early explanations for the extra $2M in chips. I carefully followed the time lines and calculations realizing I had shot a number of table/chip stacks during the color-up break on the 7th day of the WSOP Main Event. It was the only time I could get a clear shot of the tables since most of the working media had been “penned” away from the action in a very crowded space.

Day #7 player break of the 2006 WSOP Main Event. At this time Amy Calistra and Tim Lavilli believe the extra $2 million is on the remaining tables.

One possible senario missing from the investigation was the possibility of the extra chips coming into the game from a confederate(s) on the inside. Someone with access to the cabinets where the tournament chips are stored. Remember, tournaments chips have the “No Cash Value” disclaimer so security is not even close to the level of security for the gaming chips you can trade for folding money. With so many millions at stake people will do some damn clever and very bold things to claim it. That would be just one stack of the greens.

While Amy is busy with the source of the “extra” money, a couple of other bloggers are offering their opinions on the missing money, the $100,000 billboard belonging to Sportsbet.com that had $100,000 in cash in a clear plastic box before “thieves” grabbed it. Check out what Edgar “Mouse” Hohl has to say about the missing money stunt in his article #5, Throw On-Line Sports Betting to the Lions. Continue reading Zounds Off’s first blog article, Las Vegas Makes the Top Ten. You can find both at the new LasVegasVegas’s Business and Politics blog, the place for Vegas local’s opinions and advice on everything concerning Las Vegas and Nevada.

Rumors are saying $2 gasoline by the third week of October, maybe below $2 depending on poll numbers for GOP candidates.

The large stack at left at the opposite end of the table belongs to Jamie Gold and the right stacks to Allen Cunningham during day #7 break.

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