Champion of Poker

Poker History and the 2009 World Series of Poker

In Las Vegas the preparations are ongoing for the 2010 World Series of Poker extravaganza. Poker dealers are being intensively trained and hundreds of poker tables shipped to the casinos in anticipation of large player pools for each tournament. Poker players from around the world are practising their poker games and planning which events they [...]

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High Stakes Poker Update March 2010

Isildur1 is back and players like Brian Hastings, Durrrr, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey are battling head to head for millions of dollars. Just another week in the High Stakes Poker tables online. Most of us can never aspire to play against these amazing players for massive pots, but we can allow ourselves the pleasure [...]

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Allen Cunningham

Allen Cunningham started playing poker in Indian Casino’s when he was 18 years old. In the beginning, the game was just a profitable hobby to him but as he started to win consistently, he decided that he would try his hand at higher limit games. When those started to prove success, Cunningham decided to drop [...]

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Chris Moneymaker

Chris Moneymaker is the prime example of a player that literally comes out of absolutely nowhere to achieve great things. Moneymaker was an accountant in Tennessee when he won a satellite online on PokerStars.com to secure his seat in the 2003 Main Event. He started by playing a $39 satellite and parlayed that into a [...]

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Jim Bechtel

Jim Bechtel knows a thing or two about taking gambles in life. He is an cotton farmer and as any farmer knows, you are always taking a gamble with your livelihood depending on the whether and other natural conditions. Much like in poker, hard work can pay off over times. The same holds true to [...]

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