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The 2013 World Series of Poker features 62 events. To win one of those events, you must be able to successfully conquer the final opponent in heads-up play, barring any multiple eliminations occurring on the final hand. The elite $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em taking place on June 7, so, needless to say, heads-up poker plays a big part in winning events.
The World Series of Poker held its annual preview conference call at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday and offered members of the media to ask questions regarding this year’s series. WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart and WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel discussed what players can expect at this year’s WSOP and participated in a Q&A session. Here are some of the highlights from the call.
Kicking Things Off with a Bang
“One of our big goals over the past few years has been to kick off the series with a bang,” Stewart said at the beginning of the call before explaining how they’ll do just that in 2013.
Protecting your hand in poker is of the utmost importance—just ask Estelle Denis—and the best way to do so is to cap your cards. To accomplish this, players either use a chip off their stack or bring their own card guard. While the former group tend to frown upon the latter, card guards can be found at almost every poker table.
Card guards have been around for about as long as the game has existed, but they really took off after the poker boom in 2003. That is when players began to get creative by using pretty much anything under the sun to protect their cards. Some of the more famous card guards throughout the years have been Greg Raymer’s trademark fossil, Steven Dannenmann’s globe and Doyle Brunson’s Casper the Ghost (which was actually the Ghostbusters logo) lighter.
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom proved just how versatile he is last night by winning a total of $1 million in three different games on Full Tilt Poker.
Blom started the day on the tail end of yet another heads-up $500/$1,000 CAP PLO session against Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene.
Once again Blom thrashed Tollerene, this time to the tune of nearly $400k, according highstakesdb.com.
According to Diamond Flush, PokerStars has been granted a temporary restraining order that would “restrict the Atlantic Club from selling, offering to sell, etc., the Atlantic Club to anyone other than Rational.” It would also “reinstate the Purchase Agreement according to present terms until expiration of the review period the Division of Gaming Enforcement and the Casino Control Commission in New Jersey.” New Jersey officials, who have not commented on the sale, had not yet approved the ownership transfer. A judge approved the restraining order on Monday.
In a few minutes, a new era of poker will begin in the United States. Ultimate Gaming, a subsidiary of Station Casinos LLC, will see its Ultimate Poker deal its first hand at 9:00am PST (noon ET), becoming the first legal, regulated online poker room in the United States.
Initially, Ultimate Poker will only be open to people located within Nevada state borders, though it is possible that Nevada will eventually enter into interstate gambling compacts with other states. An important thing to note is that players do not have to be Nevada residents. Anyone of legal age (21 or older) can create an account; they just can’t play if they are not in Nevada. To verify location, Ultimate Poker will do something interesting: it will triangulate a customer’s cell phone signal. As such, a mobile phone number is required to register an account. This mobile number will also be needed to receive an account confirmation text in order to activate an account.
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In one month, the 2013 World Series of Poker will storm back into the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for the 44th edition of the greatest tournament series the world has to offer. Like any other year, the WSOP aims to better its overall performance from last year, and this year that includes more events on the schedule and a few big additions to the slate.
The 2013 WSOP will begin May 29 and run through July 15. The 61-event schedule from a year prior has been increased by one, and the 2013 version will boast 62 opportunities to win a gold bracelet. When combined with the five gold bracelets given out at WSOP Asia-Pacific and an estimated seven at the upcoming WSOP Europe, that’s a whopping 74 times one could enter a poker tournament this year in hopes of winning the coveted gold bracelet.
Long before Teddy KGB lit up the silver screen with a loosely fictitious underworld wit, George Devol penned his 1887 memoire Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, recounting “I played a square game for once in my life” of the evening he dealt cards to a local judge. Indeed, the Chesterfield Club of Rounders fame appeared but a slight variant of New York’s genuine Mayfair Club, and the tales of poker and three-card monte winnings shared by Devol appeared but a typical gambler’s brag.
Yet for all the focus placed on these devilishly intense games themselves, the hard muscle of a pajama-clad Grama in the background, and the head-butting intensity of a slippery Devol in the foreground, seemed to always suggest a seamless interchange of two criminal elements. While the splashed pots were themselves technically illegal, authorities often seemed discretionarily indifferent so long as the cards were clean and the rake was even. But when stacks of high society would flow from a player’s rack to an underworld icon’s associates, the justice system always seemed somehow more interested.
