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Winner of the Largest Poker Tournament WSOP 2023
Winner of the Largest Poker Tournament WSOP 2023
With the 2023 WSOP ended, it's time to take a look back and see what we've learned. After all, no matter how many times you watch the final table unfold, there's always something new to discover about these titans of poker as they show us their best moves.
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Phil Hellmuth Is Looking For His 16th WSOP Bracelet
Phil Hellmuth Is Looking For His 16th WSOP Bracelet
Every poker player dreams of heading to Las Vegas, Nevada, competing at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The WSOP is like football’s Super Bowl, baseball’s World Series, and soccer’s World Cup. It is the pinnacle of poker. Winning a WSOP event comes with a potentially life-changing sum of money and a special commemorative gold bracelet. Most poker players go through their entire careers without winning a bracelet. Phil Hellmuth is not like most players.
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 Justin Bonomo – is the best player of March 2018 according to PokerDiscover
Justin Bonomo – is the best player of March 2018 according to PokerDiscover
First month of spring has come to its end and it’s hightime to select the best offline poker player of the month relying on the results of the biggest latest poker series. It was a pretty hard choice, there were a plenty of vivid poker wins in the poker world. To our subjenctive view an American poker player Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo deserves to lead our top-list the most.
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Five players who surprised everyone in 2017
Five players who surprised everyone in 2017
Poker community got used to a constant stream of news and extraordinary accidents and events that take place at live tournaments and elsewhere. Multi-million army of poker players always had people who were capable of making wonderful things, and the game itself is full of luck so it is able to create an amazing story. We’ve gathered info of five players who surprised us the most in 2017.
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WSOP 2017 champion will pay $4,000,000 in taxes
WSOP 2017 champion will pay $4,000,000 in taxes

We already know that young American Scott Blumstein became the winner of World Series of Poker 2017 Main Event. His official prize money is officially $8,150,000, but after paying taxes he will be left with… a little over half of that. This year WSOP Main Event 2017 gathered 7,221 people. That’s a lot. There were more registrations only back in 2010 (7,319 buy-ins) and 2006 (8.773). In addition to that, for the first time in six years the number of players was more than 7,000. This was the line they were trying but couldn’t reach.

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Chris Ferguson may become the best player at WSOP 2017! Really?
Chris Ferguson may become the best player at WSOP 2017! Really?

Long dark hair, well-groomed beard, cowboy hat, slim body structure – those are the features that allowed a poker player to receive nickname “Jesus”. Chris Ferguson is one of the key figure of Full Tilt Poker scandal – he returned to poker a year ago and made a fuss on WSOP 2017 making ITM for 16 (!) times!

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WSOP goes to China in December 2017!
WSOP goes to China in December 2017!

World Series of poker spreads its authority for one of the most impactful countries in the world – China. The series management made a 10-year agreement with Chinese holding company Tencent, the owner of an incredible number of popular services, web sites, applications and games. WSOP is going to have all sorts of stages in China in the nearest future and become the part of the platform Tencent Poker with millions online users.

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WSOP 2017: Negreanu’s fail and WCGRider’s win
WSOP 2017: Negreanu’s fail and WCGRider’s win

The main poker event of the year – World Series of Poker 2017 – runs for over a week now. This time it has one significant change – no more November Nine! Poker gods have finally heard our players! This year Main Event is going to end like any big tournament there is. The level of interest towards it won’t decrease due to a gigantic break between the main part of event and final table. Amen.

We won’t be telling you much about the winners of various events below. This is too boring. Let us just highlight the most notable moments of the series. In particular: Daniel Negreanu’s try to win 7th bracelet (he almost did it!), Douglas Polk’s win in $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, Colossus III.

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WSOP 2017: What’s new + Full Schedule
WSOP 2017: What’s new + Full Schedule

The new World Series of Poker 2017 will take place from May, 30 to July, 18th and is expected to have 74 events, including a couple of new ones. We could highlight $365 THE GIANT, The killer of “The Colossus” among the other. Quite possible. It will have a new world record on number of participants in a single poker tournament.

Have you hardly forgotten the previous one and about to have a new WSOP under way? You are not alone. That is normal. We get to know the new Main Event Champion’s name in late autumn.

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You may talk but not too much
You may talk but not too much

Poker on TV has hard times. Lately only WSOP Main Event regularly has some airtime. By the way, it is already over (as you may know). People want to see live enthralling poker, not just thinking games of hoodies and ranges adepts.

An accident that happened in summer this year on World Series of poker (recently broadcasted) raises a whole row of critical questions:

  • What is real poker?
  • What one can and cannot say while being at the table?
  • Are the tournament rules fair?
  • So on
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Hard life of the poker dealer, or why the croupier is always a faggot
Hard life of the poker dealer, or why the croupier is always a faggot

Once you get to the casino, you stay there for at least several years. The dealer’s job is attractive and exhausting at the same time. Many people become the hostages of high salaries and their habits. You have to earn 10-15 hours a day but it is easy to adjust in some time. You’ve got to make no mistakes to avoid getting hit in the face by a tattooed fist, a pack of chips or getting shot by a traumatic gun.

We wanted to get a little information about the life of poker dealers in various countries. How do dealers work in the heart of the cards world – Las Vegas, at WSOP. And how do they feel themselves in the other corner of the Earth – at underground clubs of Russia and Ukraine. Are there any differences (you bet there are!) and what are they?

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