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Poker 2.0Jealous you weren't invited to DJ Spider's set in Mike Moritz's garage last week? Here's another party to which you probably weren't invited: the guest list for the inaugural session of Jim Young's new poker club, tonight at Bittorrent's offices on Mission Street, is a cross-section of the new web elite. The group's called, unimaginatively, Poker 2.0. Who's in? Apart from Jim himself, his Hot or Not partner, James Hong; Jonathan Abrams of Friendster and now Socializr; Steve Chen of Youtube; Phil Kaplan of Adbrite; Max Levchin of Slide; Kevin Rose of Digg; and Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp. A glittering crowd. The only let-down? In this game — Texas Hold 'Em — there's a $40 cap on the buy-in. I was hoping rather that the sweaty losers would have to sign over their stock to stay in contention. Tomorrow, the results. After the jump, the attendees. Jonathan Abrams
Michael Birch
Kevin Burton
Steve Chen
Doug Dalton
Dennis Fong
Auren Hoffman
James Hong
Jameson Hsu
Bob Ippolito
Phil Kaplan
Max Levchin
Derek Liu
Tom McInerney
Kevin Rose
Russ Simmons
Jeremy Stoppelman
Greg Tseng
David Ulevitch
Peter Weck
David Weekly
Jim Young

4:26 PM on Thu Apr 12 2007
By Nick Denton
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