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Anthony Gregg – Biggest 2013 WSOP Winner with $4.8m Payout
Entering this weekend, Benny Chen was the biggest winner of the 2013 WSOP after he took down the Event #6 “Millionaire Maker” along with $1.2 million. However, this total has been blown away by Anthony Gregg since he recently won the Event #47 $111,111 One Drop along with $4,830,619. Gregg captured this prize after navigating…
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Vladimir Shchemelev steps back into WSOP Limelight
The 2010 WSOP was a breakout party for Vladimir Shchemelev. The Russian poker pro made four final tables, including a runner-up finish in the $50k Players Championship ($963,375). In all, he earned $1,144,617 along with the prestige that comes with so much WSOP success. Since then, he’s managed to do pretty well after final tabling…
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Spain Football cries Foul over Strip Poker Robbery Allegations
The Spanish football team is headed to the Confederations Cup Finals after outscoring Italy 7-6 in penalty kicks after a scoreless tie in regulation. And you can bet that they’ll be keeping the celebration to a minimum after dealing with major controversy over a strip poker robbery story. Brazilian newspaper Globoesporte claimed that nine days…
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Ken Lind wins Record 2013 WSOP Senior’s NL Hold’em Championship
Poker isn’t just a game for young internet grinders. This much was proven when 4,407 players turned out for the 2013 WSOP Event #26 $1,000 Senior’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship. This turnout set the following two records: 1) Largest field in Senior’s NL Hold’em Championship history; the previous record was last year’s field of 4,128 players.…
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Gus Hansen loses Passport, prevented from playing 2013 WSOP
The 2013 World Series of Poker is one-third of the way finished and almost all of poker’s biggest names are in attendance…the keyword being “almost” every star player. Gus Hansen has been one of the most notable absentees from the 2013 WSOP thus far, and he’s got a very good reason for missing the early…
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ISPT Wembley Poker Tournament is a Huge Disappointment
Last year, International Stadiums Poker Tour made huge waves by announcing that they wanted to hold the biggest tourney ever at Wembley Stadium. Many players scoffed when ISPT claimed that they would offer a €20 million prize pool, with first place collecting €10 million of this amount. What seemed even more unrealistic was how ISPT predicted…
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Niklas Heinecker wins 2013 GDAM and $4.46m
The innagural GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions (GDAM) Main Event was a huge success after 71 players paid the HK$1,000,000 (US$130,000) buy-in. 54 of these grinders opted to rebuy after busting, and the buy-ins/rebuys combined to create a massive HK$119,375,000 ($15,376,897) prize pool. Germany’s Niklas Heinecker took full advantage of this giant pool as he won…
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Ben Mezrich on Absolute Poker – “They were Days away from being like Mark Zuckerberg”
Ben Mezrich continues to receive mainstream coverage on his book Straight Flush. The Accidental Billionaires author’s newest work dives into the story of how six University of Montana frat brothers founded Absolute Poker. As many know, Absolute would become one of the world’s largest online poker sites, pulling in $1 million in profit a day…
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Viktor Blom continues Amazing Year, wins SCOOP Main Event
We’ve seen no shortage of Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in the poker news headlines this year since he’s had an incredible run in online cash games. And Blom has proven to be multi-dimensional after winning the 2013 PokerStars SCOOP Main Event High along with nearly $1.1 million. Many of poker’s elite bought into this $10,300 tourney,…