When Barack Obama was running for the presidency in 2008, he consistently suggested that online poker should be legal. What’s more is that it was also frequently noted that Obama was a poker player himself and sympathized with the cause of legalizing poker. But a half year into his term people are starting to ask about what, if [...]
Continue Reading...When people want a link to poker’s past, they often consult Doyle Brunson. The 75 year-old not only grew up playing poker in the dusty towns of Texas, but he was also a participant in the early days of the World Series of Poker. Back then, Brunson explained that he left the 1972 WSOP (faking [...]
Continue Reading...With many of the earlier World Series of Poker tournaments setting records for attendance and prize money, it was a shock to see so few people enter the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament. Just 95 players shelled out the $50k buy-in and this meant that the overall prize pool was definitely down from last year as well. [...]
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