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Official WSOP 2019 Schedule | WSOP 2019 Events
As the World Series of Poker turns 50 this year the WSOP organizing committee has gone the extra mile – and then some – to make the 2019 WSOP schedule a memorable one. A dazzling array of 89 (!) events is on the official WSOP schedule with the entire festival kicking off on May 29. […]
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How Playing Poker Re-Wires Your Brain for the Better
Imagine if your child came home one day and said ‘I’m quitting school to play poker.” What would you say? The “self-help book” parents would hug them, wish them all the best and swallow the vomit. The rest would kick them out and tell them not to come back until they’ve learned that the only successful people […]
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13 of the Best Poker Books Ever Written
If you choose to play winning poker, you’ll have to rededicate yourself to that goal throughout your life. You can’t ever let your game become stale. The minute you think you know it all is the minute you will switch to a losing player’s mindset. Poker is a game that takes a lifetime to master; […]
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Hard Rock/Virgin Las Vegas to Partner With Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment
There are lots of rumors swirling about an increased tribal presence in Las Vegas at the moment. We know, because we’re the one who’s been swirling them. Just because a word doesn’t exist doesn’t mean you can’t use it. From casino purchases to other high-profile investments (give it a couple of weeks and we’ll be […]
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Negreanu Splits with PokerStars, Selling 2019 WSOP Action for $5!
The World Series of Poker hasn’t even begun but the summer is already off to a blockbuster start for Daniel Negreanu. How so? Negreanu married his girlfriend Amanda Leatherman in front of a rapt audience of family, friends and poker pros alike on May 19. It was “the social event of the season,” in poker […]
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Play for a WSOP Bracelet Online Every Week from June 2
Online events have been a part of the World Series of Poker for just 5 years. In those five years a total of nine online WSOP bracelets have been awarded along with $10,002,326 in prize money. If the 2019 schedule is a harbinger of what’s in store, though, they’re about to become an even more significant […]
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2019 WSOP Results | Follow WSOP 2019 Results Right Here
The 2019 WSOP is the 50th anniversary of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and, fittingly, there’s a dazzling array of bracelet events on the schedule. By the time the next Main Event champion is crowned on July 16, 89 events will have been played – an all-time record. Among the events on […]
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Tropicana Opens Swanky New Trago Lounge
Tropicana has opened its new Trago Lounge, and we had to swing by for cocktails, video poker, a live DJ and mostly that first thing. Make sure to roll the “r” when you say Trago. It will make you seem worldly. “Trago,” of course, is the first person singular present indicative of “trazer” in Spanish. […]
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Confirmed: Total Rewards Will Become Caesars Rewards
Caesars Entertainment has been kind enough to confirm a story we first broke back in October 2018: The company’s loyalty club, Total Rewards, will be rebranded as Caesars Rewards. We are not a psychic, we just play one on the Interwebs. The switch from Total Rewards to Caesars Rewards will take place Feb. 1, 2019. […]
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2018 Battle of Malta Goes Stratospheric; New Highs to Come
A €2 million Main Event prize pool? 4,000+ entries? More record-setting side events with their own guarantees? The Battle of Malta poker festival, now owned by the Eden Group and Casino Malta, reached stratospheric heights in 2018 but, according to the team already planning next year’s festivities, that was just a taste of what’s to come […]
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