The air was palpable as the final table was seated in one of the most talked about World Series of Poker events of the year. The $111,111 WSOP Event#47 One Drop High Rollers NL Hodlem, designed as a charitable poker tournament for the esteemed One Drop Foundation, saw its final 8 players rounding the felt on Friday.
As many of you will remember, Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel won the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event, raking in $8.94 million and the coveted WSOP Championship gold bracelet
The poker news headlines blew up two weeks ago with news of the sudden hospitalization of Kevin “Phwap” Boudreau. It was originally reported that the young poker player had been rushed to the hospital for emergency brain surgery due to a blood clot, and that doctors were forced to put him in an induced coma.
The One Drop High Roller Event #47 is one of the most talked about tournaments in the World Series of Poker, and certainly carries the highest buy-in across all 62 events of the 2013 WSOP
Last Friday, we reported the record-breaking status of Canadian poker players in this year’s 44th Annual World Series of Poker. A barrage of bracelet wins made Canada the top bracelet earning country in any single year of WSOP events with 7 gold-worthy finishes, topping the 2010 record of 6.
Today, June 21, marks the official half-way point of the 2013 World Series of Poker. After more than 3 weeks of non-stop, multi-tournament action, half of the total 62 tournaments have come to an end, distributing compounded prize pools across massive bubbles, as well as bracelets to the outright winners of each event.
Genting Poker, which operates on the iPoker Network, entered into a contract with a popular UK-based poker forum, The Hendon Mob, in a deal that would award forum members with free ‘Sponsorship Dollars’ as part of a special promotion.
Every year, the World Series of Poker sees repeat winners from its crowd of professional poker players, as well as new up and coming poker pros who draw minimal expectations from the rails.
One of the most prominent high-takes cash game players of our time, Kevin “Phwap” Boudreau, has been hospitalized with a blood clot in his brain. According to close friends, doctors were forced to induce a coma which is expected to leave Boudreau in ICU for at least a few weeks. His condition is considered serious.
Poker pros are known for making big moves at the table, and always seem to have plenty of stories about their worst reads and detrimental mistakes that cost them countless amounts of money. One particular professional poker player, Eric Cloutier, has told the ultimate story of an inadvertent blunder that cost him $23,000, not to mention the admiration of his beloved wife.
Before the start of the 44th Annual World Series of Poker on May 29, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier announced that he would take 3:1 odds on a prop bet from any interested party that he would win a WSOP bracelet in 2013.
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