Brian Rast Wins $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship at 2011 WSOP

Brian Rast took down WSOP Event #55 of the 2011 World Series of Poker, the $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship. 128 players put up the 50K entrance fee in order to take down the title. It was certainly the toughest field at the series, as almost every player in competition was world class. It finally came [...]

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Concept Similarities Between NL Hold’em and NL 2-7 Lowball

The NL 2-7 Single Draw Event at the 2011 WSOP recently wrapped up and reading the recap of the event got me to thinking about the game. There are a few aspects of the game that are very similar to playing Texas Hold’em. Let’s take a look at some of them. Aggression Matt Perrins stated [...]

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2012 World Series of Poker to Host Largest Buy-in Tournament in History

The new trend in tournament poker this year is high buy-in “super high roller” tournaments.  The World Series of Poker has decided to jump on the bandwagon.  On Thursday, the WSOP announced “The Big One for One Drop”, the first poker tournament in history with a $1 Million buy-in. The event is schedule to kick [...]

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