How Popular is the World Series of Poker? 6,800 Players are Main Event Entries; a Big Win for Vegas? And Worldwide, More than 75,000 Entries. Wow!
From Vegas, our correspondent (I went to school with him), reports that more than 6,800 Main Event entries began their pursuit of first place cash totaling $8.71 million on July 12. Worldwide, 75,672 entries in 58 different tournaments makes this year’s WSOP the biggest ever. Sponsors are loving it. But more than that, this has [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2011 by doclotto | Filed Under 2008 WSOP, Business, Culture, Online Poker, Tournaments
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Full Tilt Poker Offers Up Multi-Player Tournament; Sounds Very Cool
This past wee Full Tilt Poker (one of my favorite sites) kicked off what they are calling its first Multi-Entry tournament. It’s a new feature presented by this very cool online poker site. What makes this new format unique is that players can use their buy-in options one at a time or simultaneously.
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Posted on January 19, 2011 by doclotto | Filed Under 2008 WSOP, Poker, Strategy, Tournaments
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Poker’s WSOP Says Goodbye to Commissioner Jeff Pollack
With the new year brings the end of the reign of Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the World Series of Poker. Pollack resigned in November 2009 and he will be missed. For those who don’t know who Pollack is, in 2005, he was hired as the vice president of marketing for Harrahs Casino. He became commissioner [...]
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Posted on December 30, 2009 by doclotto | Filed Under 2008 WSOP, Poker, Poker Players
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There’s a New (Old) Cool Game in Town: Omaha Hi Poker
With all the talk on the street this week being about the final table of the World Series of Poker (and that great $8.5 million win), players are forgetting that there’s another of these great poker games to be played on the table. Have you played Omaha Hi Poker yet? It’s a cool variation of [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2009 by doclotto | Filed Under 2008 WSOP, Online Casino, Online Poker, Poker Players, Video Poker
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21 Year Old is on Top of the Poker World, Wins $8.5 Million at WSOP Final Table
Did you see the Final Table, World Series of Poker event on ESPN? Pretty awesome stuff. Congratulations to Joe Cada, 21, who defeated Darvin Moon, to become the youngest World Series of Poker Main Event champion in the tournaments 40-year history. Cada takes home $8,547,042 and the World Series of Poker Main Event world championship [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by doclotto | Filed Under 2008 WSOP, Poker, Poker Players, Tables
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Verdes Takes Home More Than $1.2 Million in Festo al Lago Tournament
New York pro Tommy Verdes was victorious at the $15 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Festo al Lago tournament this week, taking home $1, 218, 225. It was a great showing for Verdes, whose previous best win was $352 832 at the 2009 WSOP NHLE event, but he has a string of 12 cashes in [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2009 by doclotto | Filed Under 2008 WSOP, Poker, Poker Players, Tournaments
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Poker Great Mike Sexton Named to Prestigious Poker Hall of Fame
Mike Sexton (a.k.a. “the Ambassador of Poker”) has just been named to the Poker Hall of Fame. He becomes the 38th player named to the Hall. The competition was tough and included Phil Ivey and Barry Greenstein. Sexton, of course, has impeccable credentials. He’s won more than $3.7 million playing poker and a World Series [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by doclotto | Filed Under 2008 WSOP, Poker Players
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