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PokerNews Book Review: Titanic Thompson by Kevin Cook
11-15-2011,
Titanic Thompson was one of the most prolific gamblers in history, betting on everything from golf to poker. Kevin Cook takes a look at this colorful character in his new book, Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything.
PokerNews Op-Ed: From the Felt to the Octagon
11-19-2010,
Everyone knows that the poker community has recently become infatuated with MMA-style fighting, but what would happen if your favorite poker players entered the octagon to face off?
2010 World Series of Poker Day 2: Morrison Leads the $50k, 2500 Swarm the Rio and the First Bracelet Winner of '10
05-30-2010, , 2
It was the first of many busy days at the Rio on Saturday, for the 41st Annual World Series of Poker. Hoai Pham won the first bracelet of the WSOP, the first $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold's event attracted 2601 players and Kirk Morrison leads the...
WSOP Main Event on ESPN: Fossilman Takes on Costanza, Hand of the Week, and Our MVP
09-02-2009, , 1
In this week's installment of ESPN's World Series of Poker Main Event coverage, two of Hollywood's top comedians set out to prove that they could play with the best of them.
From the Poker Vaults: Ed 'Junior' Whited
07-23-2009, , 1
Ed 'Junior' Whited came from the Walter Clyde 'Puggy' Pearson school of poker. A hefty man who maintained thick sideburns and kept his hair slicked...
‘All In: The Poker Movie’ Premieres: A Busy Retrospective of the Game
06-12-2009,
Perhaps it’s fitting that after the theatrical clunkers served up in the name of poker in recent years, a better film about the game was due...
From the Poker Vaults: Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker, Part II
03-12-2009,
By the mid-1980s, Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker was firmly ensconced as the second biggest poker tournament in the world. In 1984, the field for the main event was actually big enough to force Slim to change...
From the Poker Vaults: Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker, Part I
03-05-2009,
Once upon a time poker tournaments with $10,000 buy-ins were as rare as blizzards in Las Vegas. In fact, from 1972 to 1978 the main event of the World Series of Poker was the only tournament in the world that could lay claim...
The PokerNews Top 10: The Top 10 Prop Bets
01-28-2009,
With high-stakes poker players, the action hardly ever stops once the river card is dealt, the tournament finds a winner, or the table's biggest fish racks up for the night. Proposition bets are a favorite pastime for many...
Poker & Pop Culture: Amarillo Slim Goes on Johnny Carson
09-23-2008,
If we consider the birth of the World Series of Poker in 1970 as the dawning of a 'modern' era of professional poker, a signal occurrence in the early history of that era was the emergence of one of the WSOP's early champions...
Three-time WSOP Bracelet Winner John Bonetti Passes
06-28-2008,
Three-time WSOP bracelet winner John Bonetti died of cancer on Saturday, June 28th in his hometown of Houston, Texas. Bonetti won his first WSOP bracelet in the 1990 No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball event at a final table that included...
2008 WSOP Event #42, $1,000 Seniors Day 1: Gerleman Leads as Money Bubble Looms
06-24-2008,
Day 1 of Event 42, $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, began with 2,218 players, the largest starting field ever assembled for the WSOP Seniors event. And when the 220 remaining players, led by Duane Gerleman, return for...
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