6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year's World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup entrepreneurs. We're tracking four of them, plus any others that pop up. This is David Sacks' third WSOP. Sacks, a former PayPal exec and the CEO of Geni/Yammer, walked away with nothing two years ago. Last year he took home $25k in prize money, and twittered every hand. This year he's way up after the first day, with $91k in chips. That likely puts him in the top 10% of players. Full story...
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A new startup dubbed nPario and formed by ex-Yahoo and SAS executives opened its business operations today.
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