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Posted by on Oct 31, 2012 in Blog, Video 1, World Series of Poker | 1 comment

The Official WSOP Main Event Championship Final Report — and Rare Up-Close Video of Greg Merson Posing with Gold Bracelet

Here’s the final video I took on the night of Greg Merson’s amazing victory in the 2012 world poker championship.

We are arranging for Merson to pose in front of ESPN cameras and photographers in front of $8 million in cash.  I am caught handing over the WSOP gold-platinum-diamond bracelet designed by Jason of Beverly Hills to Merson has he strikes the champion’s pose.

Congratualtions to Greg Merson, the 2012 WSOP Main Event champion and WSOP “Player of the Year.”

To read the official report (with lots of statistics) which was just completed for the Main Event Championship, please click direct link here:  2012 WSOP MAIN EVENT CHAMPIONSHIP OFFICIAL REPORT

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Posted by on Oct 31, 2012 in Blog, World Series of Poker | 0 comments

Moments After Victory — Greg Merson’s Behind the Scenes Victory Pose at the 2012 WSOP

 

This short 80-second video was taken just moments after Greg Merson, a 24-year-old poker pro from Laurel, Maryland became the 2012 world poker champion.  His victory took place on the Penn and Teller Stage at the Rio in Las Vegas.

This vantage point shows ESPN cameras and some stage direction in the show’s closing moments, following a record-setting final table that lasted 399 hands.

For more information, please visit:  www.wsop.com

 

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Posted by on Oct 31, 2012 in Blog, World Series of Poker | 0 comments

A Remarkable Run — 2012 WSOP Press Conference Video Clip With Third-Place Finisher Jake Balsiger

 

Jake Balsiger, a 21-year-old college student at Arizona State University, had a chance to become the youngest world champion in poker history.  However, he ended up finshing in third place, which paid a nice consolation prize of nearly $4 million.

Balsiger lasted nearly 11 hours in a three-handed marathon that set the record as the longest span ever recorded without a bustout in the Main Event Championship.

After he was eliminated at 5 am on October 31, 2012, I shot this short video of Balsiger at his press conference at the Rio in Las Vegas.  Considering the battle he’d endured and the disappointment he must have felt at having played so long, and still finished third (he actually had the chip lead at one point), Balsiger appears remarkably positive and upbeat.

I think this video is the perfect testament to a remarkable young man who enjoyed an incredible once-in-a-lifetime run at the World Series of Poker.

Read more, including the official report of this event which is posted here:  OFFICIAL SITE OF THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER

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Posted by on Oct 30, 2012 in Blog, World Series of Poker | 0 comments

Poker’s Longest Walk: Busting Out of the WSOP Main Event Finale

 

 

Note to readers:  I shot this video on Monday night, just as Michael Esposito busted out of the 2012 world poker championship in seventh place.  The video shows Esposito leaving the ESPN stage area after being inteviewed by Kara Scott.  He is escorted out the back door and to waiting family and freinds, as well as a press conference.  The WSOP’s Seth Palansky, who accompanies Esposito in this short video, tries to make the walk a little less disappointing.

 

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Posted by on Oct 28, 2012 in Blog, Las Vegas, World Series of Poker | 0 comments

2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship Coverage

2013 October Nine

 

Note to Readers:  Poker’s world championship will be played out this coming Monday and Tuesday at the Rio in Las Vegas.  You can watch coverage on ESPN. 

As I’ve done the past 15 years or so, I’ll be engaged in covering the Main Event Championship during most of the next three days.

You can read live updates, starting on Monday at 4 pm PST — which will be posted at:  OFFICIAL SITE OF THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER

I’m doing something unusual this year, which is covering the championship from the audience’s point of view — which means writing and reporting on the atmosphere and happenings inside the Penn and Teller Theatre, rather than just the stage and final table.  I’ll also relate some behind the scenes news.

I’ll return next week with lots of new material.

 

— Nolan Dalla

 

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