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  Mike Sexton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mike Sexton (born September 22, 1947) is an American professional poker player and commentator.
Sexton was a gymnast and attended Ohio State University where he earned a degree in public recreation after changing majors from business.
Sexton did finish 10th in a preliminary event at the 2005 World Series of Poker and also in the final 16 of Poker Superstars II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Sexton   (496 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 27/9/1999: Dolphins demise serves warning on toxic pollution in Port Adelaide
MIKE SEXTON: The source of the mercury is in the mangrove forests of the Port River.
MIKE SEXTON: Local mayor Johanna McLuskey points to a 1996 study, showing the Port Adelaide area has the highest level of cancer and respiratory illness in South Australia and she believes potential further health damage is too great a risk.
MIKE SEXTON: While residents maintain their campaign, Mike Bossley will continue to monitor and examine the Port River's dolphins and he believes we should heed the message the dolphins are giving us.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s55109.htm   (1061 words)

  
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It was 17 years ago that Mike Sexton won his first World Series of Poker bracelet, but it took just 17 hours for him to win his second WSOP tournament: The much-heralded 2006 WSOP Tournament of Champions at the Rio in Las Vegas.
Sexton, elated but exhausted after a grueling 17 straight hours of play, finally had a chance to see the $1 million passed his way, after years of providing commentary as it went to other players.
Sexton was proud to announce the charities that he would be gifting half his winnings to, a pledge he has made over the past few years and one that he says he will continue.
www.partypoker.com /news/items/wsop_winner_mike_sexton.html   (782 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 15/03/2006: SA Labor deal promises Nats Cabinet position
MIKE SEXTON: Karlene Maywald has made it clear if she's re-elected she wants to be part of a conservative government led by Liberal leader Rob Kerin, but she also has a promise from Mike Rann that she'll keep her ministerial post if Labor is returned.
MIKE SEXTON: If the polls are correct and Labor wins office with a majority, the next great political trick to be performed by Mike Rann will be explaining to Caucus why they still have the National Party MP in the Cabinet.
MIKE SEXTON: At the moment, such decisions are hypothetical because no-one has cast a vote yet and no-one knows how the people of Chaffey will react to the ballot box to their National Party Labor minister.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2006/s1592679.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Mike Sexton - Poker Player Profiles - Blind Bet Poker
Mike Sexton is as close to a household name as you'll find in the poker world today.
Mike Sexton was born in Indiana in 1947 and attended Ohio State University in the 1960s, where he received a scholarship to compete for the school's gymnastics team.
Mike Sexton's contract with the World Poker Tour is due to expire in the near future, and once it does his options are wide open.
www.blindbetpoker.com /profiles/mike-sexton.html   (653 words)

  
 The Mountaineer: Sexton quiets his critics
Mike Sexton was hired by Tuscola, who left a very good East Henderson program he built to come over and build a quality program for the Mountaineers.
Sexton is a coach who I would want my son to play for, because he has that sincerity about him and you can see that he truly enjoys coaching young men.
In addition, Sexton basically was thrown into the fire and had limited time to get the team prepared for the season opener, having to familiarize himself with the kids and his coaching staff.
www.themountaineer.com /archives/2005/11/09/sports_sextonquietshiscriti.html   (1111 words)

  
 View news - Irish Eyes Poker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mike and his brother Tom spent snowy winter months attending tumbling classes at the local YMCA and later joined the gymnastics team in high school.
Although there were ups and downs, Mike says he "knew that if I went broke, I could always get another job." He says he spent the next seven or eight years making periodic trips to Las Vegas and playing in the home games in North Carolina before moving permanently to Nevada.
That's an unfortunate circumstance of his current celebrity, but whether Mike is hosting an event, or playing in it, he's a hard-working and dedicated professional who deserves recognition for what he has become, a legend of poker.
www.irisheyespoker.com /main.aspx?ID=F46CEE88-9D84-45CD-9505-E2DACA99F6EF&DisplayId=AAAF5F4A-3FFF-4C9E-ABA3-5F682BAC42BD   (901 words)

  
 Poker Forum - Mike Sexton
Sexton is a good no limit player and also does one heck of a floor exercise.
Mike seems to be a really good guy who has a great love for poker and is really trying to help it grow and expand.
Mike is a good commentator but I'm growing tired of his comments on players not playing hands that he wouldn't touch as a player.
www.homepokergames.com /vbforum/showthread.php?t=37257   (1291 words)

  
 Critical voices
MIKE SEXTON: The music is so demanding that physiotherapists are on standby during breaks to massage out the kinks in any of the 129 orchestra members.
MIKE SEXTON: There is no simple way of explaining the plot of 'The Ring Cycle', other than it begins with some gold found under the Rhine River, from which a ring is made, and a morality tale unfolds involving greed, lust, power and redemption.
MIKE SEXTON: In scale with the opera, one of the sets features a spectacular water curtain that uses 20,000 litres of water, while gas jets create a wall of fire.
www.adelaideinstitute.org /The_Ring/06.htm   (1886 words)

  
 Mike Sexton Poker - Tournament of Champions Winner Mike Sexton
Mike Sexton is the Pied Piper of the poker world.
Fortunately for Mike though, just as the TOC was dying, his next mission was building the foundation for a new online poker card room: Party Poker.
Sexton's idea for a $1 million guaranteed tournament to take place on a cruise ship seemed like another big idea that underperformed when Party lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the first cruise.
www.playwinningpoker.com /poker/players/mike-sexton   (362 words)

  
 Mike Sexton Enters The Literary World | Poker News
Mention the name Mike Sexton and even people who have only a passing interest in the game of poker know whom you are speaking of.
Sexton (more on that in a minute), it has a very nice sixteen page color photo section of action from the World Poker Tour (something not seen in most poker books) and also includes a DVD by poker afficionado Lou Diamond Phillips, which is a basic how-to on the game of poker.
Mike Sexton readily admits that players, even the professionals, are going to play hands that, dependent on the circumstances, are going to make them the most money.
www.pokernews.com /news/2005/03/mike-sexton-enters-literary.htm   (786 words)

  
 Mike Sexton - World Poker Tour Host Mike Sexton
Mike Sexton has been involved in the poker industry for more than twenty years.
He said he doesn't want to criticize a player too badly during the show because their family might be watching, but he does want to point it out if they make a bonehead play.
Mike's other poker accomplishments include winning the 2000 European Finals of Poker, the inaugural Foxwoods World Poker Finals $10,000 No Limit championship in 1992, the $5000 Four Queens Summer Classic No Limit championship in 1996, which he successfully defended in 1997, as well as winning the €5000 Heads-Up Championship in Paris in July 2003.
www.poker-babes.com /bio/mike-sexton   (820 words)

  
 Poker Player Home Page :: Articles :: Player Profile: Mike Sexton
Sexton was spending time in the poker parlors of Las Vegas at the time and recognized the appearance of opportunity when he saw it.
Sexton had a lot to do with this as plans were made to crank up the World Poker Tour with televised poker tournaments.
Sexton was a well-established poker pro headquartered in Las Vegas when he responded to Party Poker's call.
www.pokerplayernewspaper.com /viewarticle.php?id=975   (1826 words)

  
 Mike Matusow - Poker Champion Mike the Mouth Matusow
Mike Matusow is one of the great Omaha tournament players in the world.
At the 2005 $5000 Omaha HiLo championship, Mike prophesized to the room that a "known player" would win the $10,000 main event, since (up to that point) "known" players had been surprisingly dominating the tournaments, despite the greatly increased entrants over the previous years.
It was up to him to fulfill his own prophesy, but unfortunately for Mike, the second hand of the final table his KK fell to an opponent's AA, and there was no happiness after that...
www.playwinningpoker.com /poker/players/mike-matusow   (414 words)

  
 Mike Matusow - Poker Player Mike The Mouth Matusow
In the 2005 WSOP, it appeared that Mike was on the verge of having one.
Mike Matusow resides in Las Vegas, Nevada and is known as one of the best Omaha Hi Low players in the world.
Ray Bitar, the CEO of TiltWare, said "Mike Matusow has made FullTilt Poker proud as he was the last big name pro standing in the largest poker tournament in history." Some of his other accomplishments include two WSOP bracelets for the 2002 Omaha Hi Low event and the 1999 No Limit Holdem event.
www.poker-babes.com /bio/mike-matusow   (786 words)

  
 Sexton Named Publisher at Anchorage Daily News
From 1992 to 1995, Sexton was publisher of Publications, Inc., a direct marketing company, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and vice president of its parent, Gazette Media Company.
Sexton also has been publisher of community newspapers in Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri.
I look forward to building on that solid foundation." In January, Sexton was named "Business Person of the Year" by the Chamber of Commerce of Central Maine for successfully organizing an economic development group of 32 communities to draw commerce to the area.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-17-2000/0001144522&EDATE=   (469 words)

  
 POKER PLAT - Mike Sexton Extending Himself
Mike also was offered a plum position in poker as a commentator for the World Poker Tour (WPT) — a job that everyone thinks he does extremely well.
Mike has been thinking outside the poker box for a long time now, and he has been very good for the poker world — both promoting it and being a spokesman for it.
I believe that Sexton has had a great vision of where the poker world is going, and he has been proven right every step of the way.
www.pokerplat.com /poker_news.php?article=1181   (675 words)

  
 Mike Sexton
Mike Sexton, one of the most familiar voices heard on many poker TV shows.
Mike began playing poker home games in the late 1970s before finally quitting his "real job" and playing the game full time.
Mike has been involved in many poker projects over the years including The Tournament of Champions of Poker.
www.partypoker.lt /mike-sexton.htm   (273 words)

  
 Legends of Poker - Mike Sexton | Poker News
Mike was born on Sept. 22, 1947 and grew up in Dayton, Ohio.
Mike and his brother Tom spent snowy winter months attending tumbling classes at the local YMCA and later joined the
It was also at the 20th WSOP in 1989 that Mike won his gold bracelet, earning $104,000 and first place in the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Low Split tournament.
www.pokernews.com /news/2006/1/legends-poker-Mike-Sexton.htm   (958 words)

  
 World Poker Tour Boot Camp
Mike Sexton, known far and wide for his contributions to professional poker, is one of the game’s premier ambassadors.
Sexton arrived at his stature as poker sage and advocate through a long and successful career.
Sexton has won four No Limit Hold’em championship events in which the buy-in was $5000 or more, a rare accomplishment for any poker star.
www.wptbootcamp.com /index.php?fn=20&id=24   (752 words)

  
 Complete World Series Of Poker from The Good Gambling Guide
Mike Sexton shot Ben out of the sky in 5th with an A K that played.
No one but Mike Sexton can know what his thinking processes were on those two calls.
Mike Sexton is a great player, a gentleman and a credit to poker.
www.thegoodgamblingguide.co.uk /spotlight/wsop2002/wsop2002_seniors.htm   (930 words)

  
 Masquerade Mayhem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Sexton grabs Mac and lifts him up going for a suplex, but Mac counters it by twisting his body to where he landed on top of Sexton, but with his head still tucked under Glen’s arm was spiked to the mat with a ddt.
Sexton stands on the top turnbuckle upright and looks as if he is going for his sunset flip powerbomb, but when Mac gets up he fights of Sexton to where steps up each turnbuckle and latches onto Sexton waist, falling back and tossing him over, making Sexton flip entirely around and land on his stomach.
Mike however, picks his brother up and then locks his head under Rick’s arm and then hooks his arm around Rick’s bad knee and then performs a suplex, Mike then pulls Rick near the ropes to set up a high risk move, but Rick trips him sending neck first down on to the middle rope.
fwrestling.com /host/awaxtreme/events/ppv/masquerade.htm   (13432 words)

  
 17 Years and 17 Hours: PartyPoker.Net Spokesman Mike Sexton Scoops $1 Million at 2006 WSOP Tournament of Champions and ...
Sexton received a freeroll into the tournament as the ambassador for PartyPoker.net, 'The World's Largest Poker School.' At the end it came down to the three big names of Sexton, Mike Matusow and Daniel Negreanu.
Sexton eliminated Matusow in the 12th hour of the event, when Matusow went all-in with A-4, only to have Sexton beat him with pocket sevens.
Sexton now stands among the top 10 for all-time number of finishes in the money at the WSOP with 37 cashes.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/06-28-2006/0004389146&EDATE=   (1253 words)

  
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Kay was 16 when she gave birth to Charles Wayne Sexton on August 11, 1968 in San Antonio, and was not yet married to Mike Sexton.
Kay and Mike probably didn't consider themselves hippies, but the hippie lifestyle that pervaded Austin in the Seventies was seductive and accommodating, especially if limited education and income were factors.
In the early Seventies, Mike Sexton was busted on a pot charge and sent to prison.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol16/issue16/music.sextons.html   (3619 words)

  
 UPF - Review of WPT show- for Mike Sexton
Mike (or Jan, Linda, anyone else associated with the World Poker Tour on Travel Channel who happens to be reading this- this is addressed throughout to Mike Sexton, however), this review is associated with the Wed 4/2 tournament at the Bicycle.
Mike, I apologize if this seems a little harsh against you, or if it seems that I'm picking only on YOU, but I hold you to a higher standard than the other announcers (based on perceived expertise) and I think you can take it...
Mike, it's certainly much easier for ME to play armchair quarterback than it is for everyone at WPT to put on the show and respond to things....
www.unitedpokerforum.com /archive/2003-04/03/5817   (2121 words)

  
 SoundPoker.com - Mike Puts Down the Mike: 3 Common Poker Pitfalls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mike was a competitive gymnast in his youth, which earned him a four-year scholarship to Ohio State University.
When we spoke with Mike, he had just arrived at his hotel room in Tunica, Mississippi, where he was covering the World Poker Open at the Horseshoe and Gold Strike Casinos.
But Academy Award-nominated actor James Woods, a phenomenal player, once told Mike that his experience as a director is what really allowed him to rise to the top of Tinsel Town’s poker food chain, as it helps him carefully observe and read other players.
www.soundpoker.com /basics/030105.asp   (849 words)

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