Recapping Sunday night\’s action: Bracelet Winners go 1-2-4 in Limit Shootout Greg Mueller becomes the fourth double bracelet winner at this year\’s WSOP, taking down the $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout, good for $194,854 as he denied Marc Naalden his second […]
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Recapping the first half of Wednesday\’s WSOP: Lisandro Wins Bracelet #3, Wins Stud Triple Crown Jeff Lisandro becomes the first player to win three bracelets in one WSOP after Chris Moneymaker initiated the poker boom in 2003, takes down the
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Covering the afternoon coverage of Sunday afternoon at the WSOP: de Wolfe wins de Triple Crown Roland de Wolfe became the second player (after Gavin Griffin) to win poker\’s Triple Crown (Winning a WSOP bracelet, WPT main event and EPT
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Poker is having its day in court, that\’s for sure. One case getting press all over South Carolina comes from a busted $20 tourney being held in a private home — raided in 2006 by heavily armed police — where
South Carolina Court to Decide: Is Poker a Game of Skill? Kentucky courts update, too
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The second day of the conference began with an appearance by Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker. He gave some insight into the 2008 WSOP that hasn’t been released to the press officially, as follows: There will
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Over 100 people signed up for the first annual CPPC, and for its inaugural installment, the hosts seemed pleased. Not only were the attendees excited to be there, but they seemed inspired by the speakers taking notes, asking questions, talking
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Poker at its Renaissance
The game became a worldwide obsession virtually overnight. Now what will become of the game?
By Dan Michalski — published in All In Magazine, premiere issue, June/July 2004
The future of poker arrived in 1984–when legendary Vegas gambler Bob Stupak faced off against Orac, a poker-playing Apple II computer. It was heads-up no-limit Hold ‘Em for $500,000, in a showdown that would later air on ABC’s Ripley’s Believe
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