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1 month ago | 
poker.org | Ralph Mittman |Alexandra Loveless |Brad Willis |James L. Hartigan
Unlimited re-buys are horrible for the game. Especially horrible for the non-pro players. Unlimited re-buys allow "poker teams" to simply continually re-buy in hopes of obtaining a huge stack to get to the final table and the big payouts. It is simply un-beatable to play against a person, or team of people, who will continue to re-buy. If I wanted to skew the results to favor full time players. I would implement unlimited re-buys. Rec Players are now just there to fund the large prize pools
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1 month ago | 
poker.org | Alexandra Loveless |Brad Willis |James L. Hartigan |Adam Hampton
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2 months ago | 
poker.org | George koutsioukos |Brad Willis |Mike Patrick |Sarah Herring
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
poker.org | Adam Hampton |James L. Hartigan |Brad Willis |Sarah Herring
You may sometimes see a player go almost all-in -- perhaps at a final table of a tournament -- but leave a chip or two behind. The strategic reason for this is that, if there’s a big pay-jump coming with the next elimination, the player who is almost all-in has the chance to fold if players behind them shove their entire stacks. Jim Reid of our Player Advisory Board wrote a great two-part article on this very topic.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
poker.org | Adam Hampton |Brad Willis |Lee Jones |Chris Land
First-off, there are as many routes into the poker industry as there are people working within it. While content creators, YouTubers, streamers and other on-camera talent may be very visible, that’s just the tip of a large iceberg when it comes to a career in the poker world. It’s a whole industry, and there are opportunities for all kinds of people to find a place.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
poker.org | Brad Willis |Lee Jones |LoriAnn Persinger |Jennifer Shahade
I've told this story a few times, but nearly 20 years ago, I played poker in a fireworks warehouse that doubled as a poker room and trebled as a weekly circus. On this cold night, there was a four-figure jackpot on offer, a bench press competition, and a Ping-Pong match that—based on the screaming from the audience—carried the world’s fate on its outcome.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
poker.org | Chris Land |James L. Hartigan |Brad Willis |Joey Ingram
Obviously, there's been some great coverage of the WSOP Main Event over the years. The easy answer is the 2003 coverage where the world watched an amateur from Tennessee turn the poker world upside down, but as obvious an answer as that might be, it's not my favorite year of coverage. For me, 2005 was the year. I had been into poker heavily for about a year after first playing in my freshman year of college in 2004.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
poker.org | Brad Willis
Humanity's most earnest wear their hearts on their sleeves, the same place where PokerStars' most dedicated wear their iconic red PokerStars spade. Today in Las Vegas, the people behind PokerStars' year-long re-emergence in the USA added something to their public wardrobe: a giant roadmap, one that drew a clear and straight line from the internal company strategy to how PokerStars sees itself covering the American map.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
poker.org | Brad Willis
Drake Kemper is a professional race car driver. He can beat you in a race. He can train you to drive a race car. And as of this week, he's proven he can chase you down on foot. Monday night, Kemper was the first person to find Slow Poker in a day-long, eleven-hour cat-and-mouse game all over the Las Vegas metro area. Kemper was one of dozens of people searching for Slow Poker (aka The Runner) in the PokerOrg Runner Runner Las Vegas competition. His prize for being the first to spot Slow Poker?
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
poker.org | Brad Willis |Matt Hansen
Masato Yokosawa is on to Day 4. The $5,300 Main Event at the PokerStars North American Poker Tour is moving on to Day 4 after 18 players bagged up from a Day 3 starting field of 77. The total field of 895 generated a prize pool of $4,340,750 and $765K of it will go to Sunday's winner. Victor Paredes leads the way with 3.4 million at the conclusion of the 15K/30K/30K level.
