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He was on his way to play in the 2010 WSOP when Paul “Smalls” Kitsos suffered a heart attack and died. The 55 year old New York professional poker player died while on board a United Airlines flight bound for San Francisco Monday evening. He was going to connect through to Las Vegas, where the World Series of Poker is running, but Kitsos died about 30 minutes after takeoff. Kitsos had a number of cashes in pro poker tournaments and earned $387,764 on the World Poker Tour.

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It doesn’t take long to pick up on things at the World Series of Poker. The hallways of the Rio Convention Center will be packed during $1K or $1.5K NLHE breaks. Almost anything left in your car in an uncovered Las Vegas parking lot during the day will melt. And $10K buy-in championship tournaments will produce final tables with famous faces, lots of action, and a very attentive media, not to mention a packed rail of fans.

The $10,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split Championship started on Sunday, June 6, with an all-star field of 170 players, which goes without saying due to the game choice and the high buy-in. D Read full