The world was big and empty, almost forlorn. Someone brought in a poker table…and chips and chairs. Someone else brought cards. The never ending procession began. When one game ended, they dealt another hand. The games ran on until the world ran out of time and the pages filled with people, the history of poker had begun.
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06-17-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Calen McNeil won Event #20: $1,500 Omaha High-Low Eight or Better after McNeil and Can Kim Hua returned for an extra day to complete their heads-up match. The event started with 1,014 players and ended with a very lengthy, heads-up duel that gave...
06-16-2013, PokerWorks Staff
A stacked field of 195 players took to the tables in Event #19 $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em but only one had all the chips at the end -- Davidi Kitai won his second bracelet and close to a quarter of a million dollars. Kitai's first bracelet came in a...
06-15-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Online poker superstar Taylor Paur won the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #18 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Paur eliminated Phil Ivey on the final day of action while Ivey was in the hunt for his 10th bracelet. A field of 2,017 runners took to the...
06-15-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Athanasios Polychronopoulos was known simply as the player with the longest name in poker. It's amazing how much a win changes everything. Now he's known as the player with two World Series of Poker bracelets AND the longest name in poker...
06-14-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Poker pro David Diaz was in the headlines in 2011 when he won a WSOP gold bracelet for taking down the 2011 $1,500 Triple-chance No Limit Hold'em Championship where he took home $352,808 for his first-place finish. What made his story so great...
06-14-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Canadian poker pro Mark Radoja topped a field of 162 to take home the win in one of the most prestigious events to date in the WSOP Event #16: $10,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold'em. Radoja bested Don Nguyen heads-up to claim the gold bracelet and...
06-13-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Tom "Donkey Bomber" Schneider won Event #15 by defeating Owais Ahmed in a short heads-up match to score his third World Series of Poker gold bracelet. Schneider outlasted a field of 862 runners to add a H.O.R.S.E. bracelet to the others that were...
06-13-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Jonathan Taylor won the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, Event #14 to scoop $454,424 in first-place prize money -- and a bracelet. The 31-year-old tournament grinder played the WSOP for the first time but has three rings he won on the WSOP Circuit over the...
06-12-2013, PokerWorks Staff
The 2013 World Series of Poker started Event #13: $5,000 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better with 210 players and ended with Mike “The Mouth” Matusow besting a stacked final table to take home his fourth gold bracelet and $266,503 in prize...
06-11-2013, PokerWorks Staff
Event #12 kicked off with 535 players lining up to play $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em and after a little over 25 levels one had all the chips. Lev Rofman made it all the way to the top of the field to take home gold and a first place prize of...
06-10-2013, Roepk Triwer
Day 3 brought 14 players back to the green felt in search of a gold bracelet and when play began Levi Berger held a big chip lead. Before the final table started, he lost it and the roller coaster ride was on, but even with the up and down swings...