Tag: high stakes poker
English players John McGrane (18th for $350,000) and Tiffany Williamson, the last woman standing (15th for $400,000), bowed out before Northern Ireland’s Conor Tate finished 12th for $600,000. As the nine-handed final table began, there was another player from those shores, as the Republic of Ireland’s Andy Black, while not British, came with just as […]
The third weekend of the WSOP Online has finished with five more completed events and champions winning WSOP Online gold bracelets. The action continues to run hot on GGPoker, with thousands clamoring for victory and a chance to be written into the annals of poker history. This past weekend saw four more events come to […]
One year after Greg ‘Fossilman’ Raymer won $5m in the biggest World Championship in WSOP history, the top prize in the World Series main event was even bigger. The winner of the 2005 WSOP Main Event took home $7.5 million, and a very famous foreigner created headlines all over the world. There was also a […]
The WSOP Online continues to heat up on GGPoker, and this past weekend saw four more events come to a thrilling conclusion. With the online poker world watching closely, players battled it out in Events #4, #5, #6, and #7, bringing intense action and remarkable stories to the forefront. The weekend was packed with excitement […]
With so many entrants into this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, the first issue for debate was how many players would be paid from the thousands that entered. As it turned out, the organizers settled on 225 paid places, with previous two-time runner-up Duane ‘Dewey’ Tomko sneaking into the money in 225th place […]
The World Series of Poker Online (WSOP-O) is back for its 5th annual edition, hosted exclusively on GGPoker, the world’s premier online poker platform. This year’s series promises to be bigger and better than ever, running from August 18th to September 30th, 2024. With an impressive lineup of 33 bracelet events, the WSOP Online 2024 […]
One year removed from Chris Moneymaker’s incredible Main Event victory, the so-called ‘poker boom’ happened, and the realm of poker exploded. The World Championship of 2004 had three times the 839 entries of 2003, as a jaw-dropping 2,576 played the $10,000-entry World Series of Poker Main Event. In the end, if Moneymaker’s breakthrough year was […]
In 2003, Chris Moneymaker stunned the poker world when he became the world champion from an $86 WSOP online satellite qualifier. In 2024, GGPoker will be sending over 1,000 players to the World Series via online events, but 21 years ago, the opportunity was rare. That was until Moneymaker kicked the door open for online […]
In 2002, Robert Varkonyi won the World Championship. Largely forgotten, he was rarely seen at the felt again. By contrast, the 2003 WSOP Main Event winner was a man whose face we haven’t seen for a week in the two decades since. In 2003, poker changed forever, and it all came down to a completely […]
In the final year before the infamous ‘poker boom’ of the new millennium, a new record attendance was set, and a mammoth 35 bracelet series created a party atmosphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two Phils caused plenty of headlines for very different reasons, and two British players reached the final nine as the WSOP Main […]
Millions In Cash & Dozens Of Gold Bracelets Up For Grabs In GGPoker’s WSOP Online Series Prestigious online poker tournament series to run from August 18 through September 30 GGPoker, the World’s Biggest Poker Room, is thrilled to unveil this year’s WSOP Online series, which features 33 coveted WSOP Gold Bracelet events and millions in […]
A year after Jesus rose through the field and attained immortality at the poker felt, the 2001 World Series of Poker took place. Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, like most of the WSOP Main Event champions, won only one world championship – in the year 2000 – but the popularity of the event he took down for […]
