Druff & Friends Show - 07/01/2019 - The Hash and The Smash

Caesars sold to El Dorado for $8.7 billion -- what you need to know (topic starts at 0:25:45). Druff runs very deep in PLO8 event, gets a huge stack day 1 at Mixed Omaha, and plays a super weird hand at limit holdem (1:16:53). Bryce Yockey takes worst televised poker beat ever in one of the worst spots ever (1:49:23). Rio looking "more likely than not" to be 2020 venue for WSOP (2:20:14). Diamond (cards) are a WSOP player's best friend (2:28:33). Druff double-charged for food at Hash House at the Linq, nobody can fix it (2:53:43). Druff's altercation with Rio Smashburger shift manager leads to revelation of longstanding corporate "concern" about that restaurant (3:20:31). Aria "private games" are back -- this time with a supposedly legal excuse to run them, angering many poker pros (4:05:54). Poker pro Aaron Mermelstein claims he had $9000 stolen from him at the Ft. Lauderdale airport (4:33:15). Update on Agua Caliente jackpot theft story (4:44:03). 2019 Poker Hall of Fame candidates announced (4:47:25).