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Rising Finnish Pro Joni Jouhkimainen Breaking Through
Patrik Antonius, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen are formidable opponents at any cash game table in the world.Young poker pro Joni Jouhkimainen is starting to generate buzz of his...
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Madsen on Third Bracelet, Growing Up in Poker
Madsen burst on to the poker scene in 2006 and immediately won two WSOP bracelets in the same summer. It was in the peak of the poker boom and Madsen instantly became a star. He won WSOP POY and...
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Bracelets for Moore, Naydenov while Mizzi Crushes $5k PLO
Moore picked up over $211k for winning the $5k Limit Hold'em event while Naydenov became just the second Bulgarian winner in WSOP history, coming out on top in the $1,500 Shootout for over $326k.In...
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Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin Hungry for Second WSOP Title
Baldwin’s live results include a WSOP bracelet in 2009 along with a $1m+ score for a runner-up finish in the 2010 WPT Championship at Bellagio.The Wisconsin-native also has a love of baseball and...
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South Dakota Vietnam Vet Wins WSOP Bracelet
The 64-year-old Moore, who served in the Vietnam War, outlasted elite poker pros Gabriel Nassif and Ronnie Bardah to win Event 37 $5,000 Limit Hold’em for a $211,743 score last night.According to Moore...
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Kara Scott Adjusting to Italy, Looking Forward to Playing Online
Scott came onto the poker scene in 2006 as a host for several UK poker shows after a move from Canada. She fell in love with the game and soon moved from the sidelines to the tables.Her best result to...
View ArticleTweet Relief: World Series of Freezing?
Las Vegas in the summer is often unbearably hot. Brutally hot days where it can be tough just to walk across the parking lot into the Rio but the temperature inside ranges between ice chest and meat...
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Canadians Keep Crushing, Cunningham Charges Again
Justin Oliver from Toronto and Daniel Idema from Vancouver kept the Northern presence strong winning bracelets 8 and 9 this summer for Canada. Oliver's bracelet was his first while Idema grabbed his...
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Rant: WSOP Leave Our Rails Alone!
There was one more card to come and the charismatic Jackson Genovesi had a look on his face like a woman giving birth to a 10-pound baby.The river was the A♦.Genovesi’s arms flew into the air before he...
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Danielle Andersen Goes From Online Grinder to Silver Screen
She was regularly crushing the higher stakes cash games online until Black Friday rolled around to suddenly remove a steady stream of income.Andersen was approached by the production team behind a...
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Brazilians Try to Focus on WSOP Despite Turmoil Back Home
Brazil is currently a nation in turmoil, with mass street protests against everything from elevated bus fares to government corruption.The protests were initially sparked by an increase in public...
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Hamby, Gross Snag Bracelets, Flack Attacks $10k 2-7
Action is also ongoing in two other events as Scotland's Rory Mathews leads the final 11 in the most recent $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event, and Dan Kelly continues his hot streak by finishing Day 1 of...
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Ivey, Hellmuth, Negreanu Make Poker's Big Three. Who's #4?
Inspired by the NBA and its recent infatuation with building a team around a "Big Three," we got to thinking and have the sense, given the way the poker world has settled post-Black Friday, a clear...
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Effel to take “Long, Hard Look” at 2014 WSOP Schedule
Some pros are questioning whether the WSOP's prestige is being compromised by having too few big buy-in events in different forms of poker.In 2012 there were championships for six different variants....
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Layne Flack: Success and Failure “Very Similar Feelings”
Mike Matusow won his second bracelet. Phil Hellmuth had an odd dry-spell and Layne Flack won two consecutive WSOP events, earning the nickname Back-to-Back Flack.Now, 11 years later, all three players...
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Liverpool’s Matthew Ashton Making Mark on 2013 WSOP
Ashton is a 24-year-old professional poker player from Liverpool, United Kingdom, although you might find the nomadic poker player anywhere on the four corners of earth at any given time. Despite...
View ArticleLast Call for Massive WSOP $111,111 One Drop High Roller
While things are relatively calm in the Rio today, there's some pressure building up.The hallways are bustling with scantily-clad WSOP girls trying to sign people up and a number of players eagerly...
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Bracelet for Martin, Hope for Mercier and Moorman at WSOP
Long-time pro Jesse Martin outlasted an elite final table in the $10k 2-7 championship for his first WSOP gold while Hungarian Norbert Szesci outlasted a huge field in the latest $1k No-Limit Hold'em...
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2013 WSOP One Drop Hits 166 Runners, $4.8m For First
A total of 166 runners signed up for the massive event making it one of the most well-attended high-rollers in the history of poker.Although the tournament was initially billed as an amateur-heavy...
View ArticlePhil Hellmuth Skips 2013 WSOP One Drop
Phil "Poker Brat" Hellmuth, owner of 13 WSOP bracelets and nearly $18 million in lifetime tournament earnings, failed to show up at the huge $111,111 buy-in WSOP One Drop High Roller event today.For...
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