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Live & Online Poker Tournament Events - Texas Hold'em
Texas Hold'em Poker on the Internet has grown enormously over the last few years and that's why live poker is bigger than ever and thousands of players participate in the large events every year: World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT), and European Poker Tour (EPT). Here, we’ll take a deeper look into the biggest live poker tournaments.
WSOP - It’s hard to believe that when the World Series of Poker began back in 1970, there were fewer than 50 poker tables in the entire city of Las Vegas. World Series of Poker is the pioneer of poker tournaments and started long before most people knew what a computer was, let alone Internet poker. Winning the WSOP Main Event is the biggest thing you can do in poker and it grants you a page in poker-history books. Poker Junkie provides WSOP news, articles about previous events, and guides you to the best WSOP satellite poker sites.
The famed tournament’s culmination will be held with the "November Nine" returning to play in November of the same year to play before a live audience with special primetime television coverage.
The WSOP comes on the heels of a record year in 2008, when the WSOP generated the most entries ever (58,000) from the most countries ever (120) that competed for the largest prize pool ever, approximately ($180,000,000) while awarding 55 championship gold bracelets, globally recognized as the sport's top prize.
The biggest ever prize money taken home for one event was by Jamie Gold in 2006 when he won the main championship event and took home a cool 12 million dollars and the youngest ever player to win the WSOP main event was Joe Cada in 2009. PokerPages.com is proud to offer the results to all recent WSOPs as a part of our extensive tournament database.
WPT - World Poker Tour is a major reason why poker boomed in the early 2000s, or more specifically, the televised WPT events. WPT is made up of a number of individual tournaments around the world. Players collect points in these events and at the end of the year, a WPT champion is crowned. This title has gone to poker celebrities such as Howard Ledered, Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu.
EPT - European Poker Tour is, as the name implies, the European version of World Poker Tour. The first EPT tournament was played in 2004, and the buy-ins were a bit cheaper than in EPT’s sister tournament on the other side of the pond. In the last seasons, however, the stakes have been raised and EPT has finally received the recognition the tournament deserves.
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