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The Poker Craze Series: Online Poker. Not to be Overlooked

When online poker first came on the scenes, many real poker players looked at it as “poker lite”. Not having to contend with “tells”, personality conflicts, etiquette, or actual human interactions, online poker players were viewed as amateurs or hobbyists with only a fleeting interest in the true blood, sweat, and tears of poker.
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The Scots Come Out on Top at Paddypowerpoker.com’s Grand Slam

The teams lined up against each last week with the lone goal of being the last one standing, or, because this is poker, sitting.
When it was all said and done, Team Scotland came out as the winner of the Paddypowerpoker.com Grand Slam 2006, which was held at the Star City Casino in Birmingham, England, Jan. […]

The Top Poker Rooms in the U.S.

If you like to play the horses as well as play poker, then the Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood, California may be as close to heaven as you’ll get while still breathing. Located next to the Hollywood Park Racetrack—the first U.S. casino to have such a location—the Art Deco-styled facility underwent that typical Hollywood […]

Duplicate Poker: The Basics

What is Duplicate Poker?
Duplicate poker is an ever-evolving poker variant that attempts to eliminate much of the luck involved in traditional poker. Because of its evolving nature, and because of the limitations of live play, quite a few different versions of duplicate poker exist. While the basics explained below may not hold strictly true for […]

Fifth Annual WCOOP Wrap Up and Results

The fifth annual World Championship of Online Poker, hosted by Poker Stars, wrapped up in the early hours of Monday after its record-setting, 16-day run. 18 events spanning all major poker-game variations were contested. That the WCOOP shattered all but the most optimistic expectations for the series is easy to see; the collected pre-event guarantees […]

WCOOP #12, $300+20 Pot-Limit Omaha: ‘Mr. Shhhhhh’ Silences the Field

Poker Stars’ record-setting World Championship of Online Poker continued on Tuesday with a return to pot-limit Omaha, this time in Event #12, which attracted large numbers with its affordable $300+20 entry fee. 1,303 players meant a $390,900 prize pool, continuing this year’s WCOOP tradition of shattering the pre-tourney guarantee, in this case a modest-by-comparison $200,000.
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WCOOP #9, $500+30 Pot-Limit Hold’em: ‘uncforte’ Denies ‘remen’ for Title

Pot-Limit Hold’em made its first appearance during Poker Stars’ World Championship of Online Poker on Saturday. Event #9, one of two WCOOP events running on the day, offered a $400,000 prize-pool guarantee. 1,095 players made the $500+30 buy-in, ensuring that this event’s actual prize pool ($547,500) continued the WCOOP’s perfect run of rendering meaningless the […]

WCOOP #8, $200+15 H.O.R.S.E.: ‘F.Briatore’ Surges down the Stretch

No one knew quite what to expect when H.O.R.S.E. was added to the lineup for this year’s World Championship of Online Poker. Sure, the game had received a big boost from the recently completed WSOP, where Chip Reese won the debut of the event, with its marquee-level $50,000 buy-in, but would the game sell to […]

WCOOP #5, $500+30 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo: ‘kwob20′ Cruises to Victory

Day Five of the World Championship of Online Poker saw Omaha return as the featured game, this time in the hi/lo format. This event had a $500+30 buy-in and a $300,000 guarantee, and as with every other of this year’s WCOOP events to date, the guarantee was never an issue. 953 players were on hand, […]

WCOOP #4, $200+15 NL Match Play: ’spawng’ Becomes First Ever Two-Time Champ

Event #4 of Poker Stars’ fifth annual World Championship of Online Poker was a treat for aggressive players, as it was time for the $200+15 No-Limit Hold’em Match Play event, a single-elimination tourney of heads-up matches. This event carried a nominal guarantee of $300,000, but was expected to reach the pre-tournament cap of 2,048 entrants, […]

WCOOP Event #3, $300+20 PLO (w/ Re-buys): ‘thegiant’ Goes Wire to Wire

Day three in Poker Stars’ fifth annual World Championship of Online Poker meant that the first four scheduled Omaha events was on tap, this one the $300+30 (with re-buys), pot-limit event. 773 players were on hand, and with 987 re-buys and 501 more add-ons at the first break, the total prize pool swelled to $678,300. […]

WCOOP Event #2 - $500+30 NL Hold’em: ‘Rambo5′ Crushes Final Table

Another day, another WCOOP tourney. Another shattered pre-tournament guarantee. If it sounds like record turnouts are going to be the theme of the fifth annual WCOOP, then get used to it — Sunday’s $500+30 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event drew 4,495 contestants. It meant big, deep money, with a total prize pool of $2,247,500, a first-place […]

The WSOP Class of ‘06: Part II

In Part I of the WSOP Class of ‘06, we looked at the tenth- through sixth-place finishers from the 2006 WSOP Championship event. In Part II we’ll see how the top five finishers in the biggest poker tournament in history fared in the year that followed.
It would be hard to forget our fifth-place finisher in […]

The WSOP Class of ‘06: Part I

The 2006 WSOP Main Event was record breaking on many levels, with 8773 entrants and a whopping $12 million first prize. Among all the big-name pros that took to the field that year, only Allen Cunningham (2005 ESPN/Toyota Player of the Year) made it all the way to the final table. What happened to the […]

Two Million Chips: Six Months After

On August 10th, Jamie Gold won the 2006 World Series of Poker main event. Mr. Gold soon had issues collecting his $12 million in winnings, but those problems were recently resolved out of court. There was, however, another contentious issue involving the WSOP’s main event; the introduction of over 2 million chips to the total […]

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