Part1: History of the WSOP
- Filed under: WSOP Articles
- Date: Jun 30,2008

First part of our World Series of Poker articles gives some insight on the early years of the tournament, the growth of the tournament and the reasons for this.

First part of our World Series of Poker articles gives some insight on the early years of the tournament, the growth of the tournament and the reasons for this.

Huge action at the RailHeaven table - “present” winning a $326k hand and Patrik Antonius one of the biggest online pots ever worth $449k! Check out the hands and report of the action.

Scotty “BABYYYYY!” Nguyen beat the tough field in the 13 hour long final table and picked up almost $2.000.000 in cash! Erick Lindgren took the lead in the WSOP player of the year competition.

So you want to know a bit more about World Series of Pokers history? Or the worst bad beats and the sickest hands - read more about all of these starting on monday. Also some nice competitions coming up!

The game with $4000/8000 blinds - and no CAP… sounds that there will be huge action at the Bellagio next week when players like Sammy Farha, Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson and “durrrr” battle it out!

Negreanu, Brunson, Ivey, Bloch.. all had their moments but didn’t make it to the final table. Now Erick Lindgren has again a chance to win his second bracelet this year - players like Scotty Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Huck Seed and Lyle Berman are still on his way…

This time Antonius managed to win also over $600.000 playing Omaha hi-low and H.O.R.S.E. - especially the Omaha hi-low was very profitable for him as he was sitting with a stack worth over $750.000 at one point!

Antonius running hot at the $2000/4000 limit games while ICallSoWhat continues to have bad sessions over bad sessions. Ilari Sahamies made also a nice comeback with over $200.000 winnings.

Team PokerStars members Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu currently are in the 2nd and 3rd place in chips - not far behind is the grand old man Doyle Brunson when only 24 players are left in the $50.000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament.

Jason “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz winning the huge pot and “TonyBliar” asking “who are you?” - but wait.. they are actually friends! …something rotten is happening.

Gus has found his games - the big limit games in the new tables have been very profitable to him. Seems like he will no longer be seen in the PLO or NL-Texas tables - only the limit ones!

Theo Jorgensen is the man behind the screenname THEDONKEYNO1 and he has had a nice ride at Full Tilts tables - taking a shot at the $50/100 PLO with $10.000 went pretty nicely!

Benyamine going up from $100.000 to $500.000 - ICallSoWhat continues his downswing with huge losses - Patrik Antonius makes a nice comeback - Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen…

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Tom Dwan was on fire - playing multiple sessions within the last 24 hours and winning a lot. Huge hands included a pot worth $311.142 which was won by plain Aces in the end at pot-limit Omaha!

Two bracelets in one week is pretty amazing - “Razor” is on fire! The aggressive style from no-limit Texas helped him to take also down the 2-7 Triple Draw tournament.

Some rumors going on that Patrik had lost this huge pot in Vegas playing deepstacked $200/400 Texas Hold’em - if this is not true Patrik still has some reason to be very upset with Texas Hold’em!

Ilari Sahamies borrowing money from Tom “durrrr” Dwan, big games at the tables - ICallSoWhat with over $470.000 in two tables and durrrr with $380.000.. and durrrr closing to $1.000.000 later!

Few notes about different deposit bonuses on different sites - it might seem a bit strange that some sites have smallish bonuses compared to some huge bonuses. Choose your games wisely and use the deposit bonuses well!

Iveys Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren can be now bought from e-bay - rumor are telling that he might have bought a car much more expensive… a Bugatti Veyron with the topspeed of 407km/hour!

With the signing of Patrik Antonius to team Full Tilt the action has surely heated up - now we have even more bigger tables with the names “Patrik”, “Patrik Antonius” and “RailHeaven”!

Legendary “Texas Dolly” has had a horrible ride at tournaments and in the cash games. Losing session after sessions tells that something is wrong, maybe $50.000 H.O.R.S.E will turn things around!

Tuan Le is known for his gambling style in the poker tables as well as in other tables too! Sidebet turned into very expensive one. Some info about the live $500/1000 PLO game at the WSOP.

Jason “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz battled again against Patrik Antonius in the $300/600 NL heads-up tables. In the end Patrik decides to go all-in with five-four before the flop.

“deeznuts6″ again offering some great action - building first a stack worth $36k and then blowing it up, “OneUponAStar” winning eight buy-ins.

Benyamine beat the huge final table that included Mike “the Mouth” Matusow, Ram Vaswani, Toto Leonidas among other great players. Mike had a huge rollercoaster and lots of emotions on the line as he tried to snatch his second bracelet this year.

Patrik Antonius has been getting the action that he hoped for - but now Jason “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz beat him in the big NL-tables. Some huge hands occurred, like both players hitting a straight on the flop.

Huge sessions played at Full Tilt Poker - Antonius has started to dominate the tables and ICallSoWhat has started losing! PrtectYaNeck with over $250.000 in the NL table etc.

Layne Flack made over 20 rebuys - which was well paid by his first prize in the $1.500 PLO-rebuy tournament. Chris “Jesus” Ferguson had his opponent crippled in the $5.000 Stud hi-low tournament but didn’t manage to finish as a winner.