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Christian Pham Accidentally Registers for 2-7, Wins WSOP Bracelet
Pham had accidentally registered for a No-Limit 2-7 tournament, a game he didn't even know existed. Two days later, Pham won the event, his first World Series of Poker bracelet and $81,314. “I sat at...
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Brian Hastings Wins $10K Stud, Collects $480K Including Side Bets
Earlier this summer, Hastings challenged the poker world's best to beat him. Hastings offered even money on himself and proposed using Daniel Negreanu’s $25K Fantasy Draft points system to determine...
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888 Pro Nitsche Narrowly Misses Bracelet #4, Takes 3rd for $220k
Playing the $5k No-Limit Hold'em 8-max event, #25 on the schedule, Nitsche had to navigate one of the toughest fields of the Series. As Jason Somerville put it, he had “to deal with some of the best...
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The Inevitable Future for Online Poker is Closing In
They called it poker but it was really just text like "flop QhTs5s." The first online poker room offering real-money play was Planet Poker. The first hand was dealt on January 1, 1998. It had Mike...
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WSOP 3-Bet: HS Coach Wins $567k, Courtside Hellmuth, Busquet Nitpick
You can always make suggestions for future WSOP 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at an amazing victory by a high-school coach, Phil Hellmuth having...
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Phil Galfond Denies Nick Schulman Third $10K No-Limit 2-7 Bracelet
While there were only 77 entrants, they were 77 of the world’s best poker players. George Danzer, Brian Hastings, Jason Mercier, Antonio Esfandiari, John Monnette and Paul Volpe were a few of the...
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Poker Pro Vanessa Rousso in Cast of CBS' Big Brother 17
Rousso was announced among the cast for Big Brother 17 today along with a CBS all-access exclusive to meet the next houseguests at 8 am PT. The new season will debut on Wed. June 24 with a cast of 14...
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WSOP 3-Bet: Trump Poker, Poker DD Wanted, Hoyt Corkins Blazing
Feel free to hit us up with suggestions for future 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at new Presidential-hopeful Donald Trump’s poker past, Dan Smith...
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In the Money, Near the Lead: Jennifer Tilly Hunts Second WSOP Bracelet
Back in 2005, Tilly won the $1,000 NLHE Ladies Event and has been chasing another World Series of Poker bracelet since. “I always get that caveat like, ‘Well, that's a ladies bracelet,’” said Tilly....
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Howard Lederer Gave Me Some Words of Wisdom About Money Once
Are we not bigger than that? Is the poker world so small that we have to read about how Phil Hellmuth got tickets to a basketball game? Didn't it used to be the other way around? Wasn't it the...
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WSOP 2015 At The Half: A Look at Numbers from First 35 Events
From the glory days of the 8,000-player+ 2006 Main Event to the swingy years post-Black Friday attendance at the WSOP has always been used a sort of barometer for the health of the poker industry as a...
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WSOP 3-Bet: Brazil Rises, Negreanu Kingsycle, Lindgren Bankrupt x2
You can make suggestions for future WSOP 3-Bet pieces below in the comments section. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Brazil on the brink of a third WSOP bracelet, Daniel Negreanu getting...
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Ivan Luca Becomes Argentina's First WSOP Bracelet Winner
Over the course of four days, Luca overcame a field of 2,195 players in the $1,000 NLHE to win $363,391 and his first WSOP bracelet. While this is only Luca’s second tournament in the United States,...
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Eric Place and Nova Scotia Nine Storm the WSOP Monster Stack
Today, they got closer than they ever have when Eric Place finished second out of 7,192 entrants in the WSOP Monster Stack for $796,834. Place, one of the Nova Scotia Nine, made the Monster Stack...
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From Dealer to Millionaire: Shiao Wins Monster Stack for $1.3m
On June 11th, Shiao was a 24-year-old working man hoping for a cash at the World Series of Poker. Now Shiao is a 25-year-old millionaire. “This is absolutely amazing,” said Shiao. “Never in a million...
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Jason Mercier Wins Third Bracelet, Whopping $633k at WSOP
It had been a rough WSOP for Mercier who only had one minor cash prior to last night. He also lost $165,000 thanks to taking 3.3 to 1 odds against Brian Hastings winning a bracelet. The long-time Team...
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WSOP 3-Bet: Gorodinsky Climbs POY, Poker Proposal, Safecracker
You can always make suggestions for future WSOP 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Mike Gorodinsky making his case for POY, a wedding proposal at...
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Record-Breaking Colossus is #1 When it Comes to #2
In a recent press release, WSOP officials reported a number of records broken and increased attendance. In the first 34 events attendance was up 48% from last year, putting the 2015 WSOP on track to...
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Vanessa Rousso Will Be a Better Poker Player After Big Brother
Online grinders have emerged as stars and drive the evolution of the game today. Math is very important in poker; in fact it's the very foundation everything else is built upon. But there are other...
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Lock Up Your Hassle-Free Poker Holiday at Battle of Malta Now!
1,447 players entered the BOM Main Event last year, crushing the €500k guarantee and earning the 2014 European Poker Award for best new low buy-in live event. With a bigger capacity, more parties and...
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