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Join us tonight on NWP Radio where you'll hear from Joe Sebok (newest UB pro) and Hollywood Dave about the continued fallout from the Ultimatebet cheating scandal. Also feel free to follow along in our forums.

Dan Druff and Phil Hellmuth got into it on the WSOP Main Event Day 2B's featured table. Check out the coverage of that tonight on ESPN from 8-10pm EDT (5-7pm Vegas time), and talk about it here.

Randy "The Natural" Couture along with the help of Karina "Whatever" Jett will be hosting the 2nd annual "Operation All-In" poker tournament and charity auction to benefit the Xtreme Coutur G.I. Foundation. The action will be at The Golden Nugget (the Bellagio of downtown) on Aug. 22 @ 2pm. This writer will be there, as will countless celebrities and poker players. $330 buy in, $100 rebuys, all monies going to charity and a whole bunch of really nice prizes will be given out, including a $12k tournament package, WPT Boot Camp scholarship, jewelry, expensive watches, and much much more!

You don't often get something for nothing here, but tongiht's radio tournament features a great value $150-added PLO8 tournament on Pokerstars.

Even if you don't play PLO8, this prize pool will feature a sick overlay and be worth playing!

Big shout to my boy Scott "xmrstyle" Bohlman. He finished 58th in the main event out of over 6400+ entrants for over $100k. Every single night he was in the main event, there was a raging party in his house, and this was the key to his success imo. I truly feel that by drinking his beer and playing on his ping pong table I helped contribute to his deep run in the main. Scott Bohlman, you're welcome, and I expect a 15% tip or so, just like you do a waitress or bartender. Mini-shout to Reggiman and Tommyboy83 who also dropped it like it was hot in the main, but xmrstyle was the hottest! GG / GL / Nice tilt / they are all chasers.

I was recently offered a PPA patch to wear on the ESPN Featured TV Table. I declined. Here is why I wouldn't wear it, and why the PPA is destined to fail unless they radically change their tactics. Comments welcome.

So the World Series of Poker has over all been run well, just as it was last year, with a few exceptions. First off Steve, Bob, and the rest of the floor personnel and dealers have done pretty damn good this year. They have an almost impossible job to do perfectly, and they came real close to perfection. Now Harrah's management could have done better. Jeffrey Pollack has a tough task, and makes 1000's of decisions about the WSOP, and we here at Neverwinpoker are here to point out the ones he got wrong.

1) No WSOP event should ever be capped, especially the Main Event. Players should never be shut out of any WSOP event. They are open events to determine a world champion, and when someone is shut out that is directly against the spirit of the World Series of Poker. Rumors I've been hearing say that TJ Cloutier, Karina Jett, Patrick Antonious, Hollywood Dave, Mickey Applemen and 100's of others were all shut out holding $10k in their hands at the cage. Mickey Applemen played 30-something straight WSOP Main Events until this year. Shameful. Here is a solution, and yes it costs $. The players pay Harrah's a few millions dollars to run the biggest poker tournament of the year. Open up that room right next to Amazon, the one where the Gaming Life Expo thing is, hire dealers and buy tables for 2 days. Find a bigger facility if need be, but no matter what get seating for 9,000. This year, you should have taken alternates until 10pm if you had to. There were tables broken all the way into Amazon by the end of the night, start players w/30k chips at 150-300 if you have to.

2) While at the Fresh Market Buffet a rude manager came up to me and 9 others while dining in the Diamond section (sickbrag). He rudely asked us if we pushed tables together to make such a large party (we didn't). Then he said that parties of 6 or more have to pay a mandatory 15% gratuity. FOR A FUCKING BUFFET. He then demands we pay $38 in cash immediately, right in the middle of our meal. I explained to him we just put $100k in action of which Harrah's just keeps $5k or so. He then said that if we had put up that kind of money we wouldn't mind the $38. Had Druff been present there would have been bloodshed. Jeffrey Pollack - please inform F&B to pretend to give a shit about us, just like you do for your other high limit gamblers. You are cheapening the WSOP brand by treating the players like shit. Against the spirit of the WSOP, Benny Binion is rolling over in his grave cursing both Harrah's and Becky.

3) Give NWP a press pass. We are the bad boys of the poker media, but 50,000 degenerates can't be wrong! We are part of the poker world. Like it or not, we are part of it. Ask Nolan Dolla. It's an outrage that we are denied a pass. Because we have an uncensored poker forum and call them like we see them we are denied a pass. Totally against the spirit of the World Series of Poker.

So once again Neverwinpoker got the shit end of the stick when it comes to being a credentialed member of the poker media during the WSOP. We don't get a spot on the Amazon room floor to put a laptop, and we can't take any pictures inside the Rio and my endless awesome hours of flip-video will never see Youtube. I spoke to Scotty Nguyen about his monkey that escaped and is either dead or still running around Spanish Trails. I could have video'd him talking about how his baby cougar sleeps on his child's face (quite cute actually) but I'm not allowed. I promise you I can get permission from Bluff and ESPN, but not from Seth Palansky. Seth Palnsky is the WSOP communications director and has been pissed off at me and NWP after last year's denial letter was posted by Druff and the intern that sent it was black cock'd. Of course we took that thread down to spare the messenger in that case, and both Seth and Jeffrey promised me a media credential for 2009. Obviously neither one of them can remember that conversation. Then they slow-rolled Druff in not answering emails so he wouldn't start a shitstorm. It's total bullshit.

When the WSOP credentials a poker site to cover poker they are not sanctioning the content. They are simply admitting that the site in question is indeed part of the poker media. NWP's coverage of the WSOP would be amazing, and would certainly add value to the WSOP brand. Every other major poker site is allowed to cover the WSOP from their angle, except us. Andy Bloch and I were playing at the same table for a few hours and he asked me with a puzzled look on his face why we were denied our credential. To him it just seemed obvious that NWP would get one because to him we are part of the poker media. I ask all well known player that are friendly with Jeffrey Pollack or Seth Palansky to speak to them personally and ask them to reverse their mistake. Even holler @JeffreyPollack on twitter and let him know how you feel. Maybe next year...

Micon has been touting his HORSE skills for months, but few have believed him. He's now putting actions to go along with his words as Micon has made his second-ever WSOP final table in the WSOP $1500 HORSE event. Come down to the Rio and rail him! GOOD LUCK MICON!