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After the first 16 tournaments, the 2013 World Series of Poker was starting to look more like the North American Series of Poker. By this point, Americans had won 11 gold bracelets while Canadians captured the other 5 bracelets. However, this monopoly was finally broken up when Greece’s Athanasios Polychronopoulos won Event #17 and set a record in the process. Check out what record he set below along with other stories like Taylor Paur winning a very strange heads-up match, and NBA star Kobe Bryant addressing the 2013 WSOP crowd. Europe strikes with Wins by Polychronopoulos and Kitai Regardless of …

From August 21st-25th, the Latin Series of Poker (LSOP) will be jetting off to Puerto Varas, Chile for another fantastic event. And you can join them in this beautiful Oceanside town by winning an LSOP Chile prize package through Americas Cardroom. Each prize package is worth $1,500, and this covers the $1,000 + $100 LSOP Chili Main Event buy-in along with $400 for travel/hotel expenses. To win, you simply need to play in LSOP Chile satellites, which run every night. The actual prize packages are given out in the Thursday night “Seat-Only” satellites, and you can see the entire schedule …

The 2013 World Series of Poker is currently taking place right now and there have been some great stories so far. An amateur became a millionaire, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow won and gave a “F**k you” to the haters, and Tom Schneider reclaimed lost glory…

Playing online poker seems like about the last way to make it onto the field at Old Trafford. After all, Manchester United’s stadium has been home to some of the greatest footballers in history such as Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney. But Party Poker are holding a poker tournament at the legendary stadium and giving players an opportunity to win…

Over the years, PokerStars has achieved a number of world records and accolades. And now PokerStars can add one more impressive accomplishment to the list – the richest online poker series ever…