Very few poker tournaments pay out a first-place prize of $3 million. The World Series of Poker main event has accomplished this impressive feat every year since Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker won $2.5 million in 2003 and changed the course of tournament poker history forever. The World...
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Phil Ivey confirmed today on PokerRoad Radio with Barry Greenstein that he's already told Tom "durrrr" Dwan that he'll take on his million-dollar online poker challenge. He also said Benyamine is up first to try the challenge and Antonius is waiting in the wings for a shot at it. For those of you not in the know about what the durrrr challenge is, Dwan is putting up $1.5 million to a challenger's $500,000 playing four tables at a time heads-up with minimum $200/$400 stakes. They'll have to play a minimum of 50,000 hands, and if the challenger ends up even a dollar more than where he started when the matchup began, he wins durrrr's $1.5 million. If durrrr ends up on the winning side, he gets the player's $500,000. Plus they'll get to keep whatever money they already won while playing. The
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The 21st event in the Card Player -exclusive Pro Bowl in Paradise tournament series, which takes place on Bodog, is being held today at 9:05 p.m. ET. The event will feature an added seat in the Bodog Sunday $100,000-guaranteed tournament (worth $109) for the winner. The Pro Bowl in Paradise is a...
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Both CardPlayer and Bluff Magazine listed John "The Razor" Phan as their Player of the Year after he earned two World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title in 2008. Phan had more than $2 million in tournament winnings in 2008, starting with a fourth-place finish in the $500 Seven-Card Stud Eight-or-Better event at the Gold Strike World Poker Open for $5,675. He was just getting warmed up in Tunica, though. Phan went on to cash in another event in 10th place for $2,807, and capped off the tournament series with a 22nd-place finish in the WPT $10,000 championship event for $12,060. In March he added a WPT final table to his accomplishments for the year. At the Bay 101 Shooting Star event, he finished in sixth place for $135,000. In May, Phan began a run at the WSOP that wou
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Full Tilt Poker has now released details for next month's eleventh Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XI). FTOPS XI will run February 4-15, 2009, and offer a busy 25-event agenda. The total in pre-tourney guarantees...
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The recent news in December of Party Gaming co-founder Anurag Dikshit’s plea bargain with the U.S. Department of Justice thrust the company back into the spotlight. Now, in a December 28th interview with Financial Times, new Chief Executive Officer Jim Ryan has announced his plans for returning the company to the lofty perch it once held.
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According to the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper, Utah State Representative Sheryl Allen (R-Bountiful) is seeking to introduce House Resolution 1, which asserts that the decision whether or not to adopt gambling should belong solely to the states. While Utah has managed to stunt land-based forms of gambling, Allen told the Tribune, "Computers made it much easier to gamble."
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The beginning of 2009 has been a busy one for fans of poker on television. Last Sunday, the seventh season of the World Poker Tour kicked off on Fox Sports Net. Recently, the fifth season of “Poker After Dark” began airing on NBC. Poker enthusiasts can mark their calendars for Monday, January 12th, the date of the first of seven new episodes of the Best Damn Poker Show.
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