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Tournament: WSOP boasts $1 billion in payouts

While the final figure on 2009 WSOP payouts is not yet available, what is known is that this year’s winnings will push the World Series of Poker’s 40 years of payouts over the $1,000,000,000 mark. read more

Tournament: 2009 World Series of Poker news and notes

With the conclusion of all the preliminary events at this year’s World Series of Poker, the tournament the entire poker world waits for every year has finally begun. Here is a wrap-up of the stories that came out of the earlier events: read more

2009 WSOP: Champions Invitational, Day 1 – Mortensen in Front

What do you do to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the biggest poker tournament in the world?…

2009 WSOP: $40,000 No-Limit Hold’em Event #2, Day 4 – Lunkin Captures Title

After surviving a star-studded field and an epic heads-up battle, Vitaly Lunkin became the winner of the biggest…