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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05-31-2014, PokerWorks Staff
For the small sum of $1,000 and all the chills, spills, and speed bumps that most poker players can handle, WSOP Event #3: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha did not disappoint. A prizepool of $1,015,200 grew from the 1,128 hopefuls that laced up for the run...
05-30-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Tuesday found 131 players ready to battle it out for a prize pool of $871,148 and a gold bracelet in Event #2: Mixed Max No Limit Hold'em -- a new event on the schedule of the 2014 WSOP...and the only one with a $25,000 buy-in this summer. The...
05-29-2014, PokerWorks Staff
The first event of the 2014 WSOP put cards in the air on Tuesday, May 27th, with 876 players ponying up $500 to build a prize pool of $394,200 in the Casino Employees Event. The event was scheduled for two days but after hours of play on Day 2...
05-04-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Thursday, May 1, 2014, was a big day for long-time poker professional Bernard Lee when he defeated Alex Masek, heads-up, to win his first World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring and deny Masek a record ninth ring.
Lee had his work cut out for...
04-20-2014, PokerWorks Staff
The PokerStars.it European Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event finished with a big bang and the winner may still be feeling the aftershock of not only winning the event, but also becoming the first player to become a two-time EPT champion...
03-18-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker is always remembered for winning an online satellite and running it into the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event championship to beat Sam Farha heads-up. Now he has a new title to add to his impressive WSOP...
03-10-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Everest Poker just announced that Britain's top poker pro, Sam Trickett has been signed as a brand ambassador for the online poker room. Trickett holds the position of No. 2 on the all-time money list and in his home country of England, he is No.1...
03-07-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Chris Moorman's "Poker Machine" status just grew by the size of the universe; he gave the definition of poker machine a new meaning when he won his 20th Triple Crown and Sunday's partypoker $200 Guaranteed during the first part of February. And...
02-26-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Three-time gold ring winner Chan Pelton hit the news big time last week but it wasn't over topping a field of 181 players in Event #9: $1,125 No-Limit Hold’em where he won his third ring and $47,061 in prize money. Pelton was attempting to...
02-16-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Antanas Guoga, known to the poker world as Tony G, is leaving the great game of poker (perhaps temporarily, but leaving just the same), to transition into a career in politics. Tony G's farewell tour starts with the £500,000 Main Event at the...
02-10-2014, PokerWorks Staff
Phil Ivey just took down the biggest single cash of his poker career when he won the Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge for AU$4,000,000. Winning the title in the event also marked the second time that he took home the championship in this event...
Brandon Shack-Harris Scoops Event #3: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha
WSOP Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No Limit Hold'em won by Vanessa Selbst
Roland Reparejo wins WSOP Event #1 Casino Employees Event
Bernard Lee beats out Alex Masek to win first WSOP Circuit Gold Ring
Vicky Coren-Mitchell becomes first Two-Time EPT Champion after Sanremo Main Event win
Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker adds Hollywood Poker Open St. Louis title
Everest Poker signs Sam Trickett
Chris Moorman takes down 2014 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic
Chan Pelton flushes poker career down the toilet with WSOP Circuit Chip Theft
Tony G starts farewell poker tour
Phil Ivey Wins LK Boutique $250,000 Challenge at 2014 Aussie Millions
Daniel Negreanu
Erik Seidel
Antonio Esfandiari
Phil Ivey
Scott Seiver
Tony G
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Ernst Hermans
Steve Billirakis
Tyler Patterson
Ben Zamani
William Liang
Jason Somerville
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