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Online poker room PKR has announced it will host at Summer of Music. The PKR Summer of Music will allow players to attend music events in London and elswhere. The online poker room will host events in Hyde Park in London as well as events in Sweden, Germany and France. Players can visit the online poker site for more details on how they can attend such events as the Berlin Festival for just €24, where they might find music from The Killers, Arcade Fire and Moby among others.
Here’s a look at all of the drama from Week 1 at the World Series of Poker.
On Thursday, 888poker announced the final schedule for its 2011 Super Stack series in the United Kingdom. The six-stop tour will take place at London’s Fox Poker Club and Birmingham’s Circus Casino between July 30 and December 18.
In a fan friendly event dreamed up by the WSOP organizers, poker legends Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth faced off in a grudge match. The World Series of Poker Grudge Match pits heads up players against their famous rivals. Chan was the winner of back to back WSOP events in 1987 and 1988. Hellmuth defeated him in 1999, breaking what would have been a three-streak record in the process. Now in 2011 the rematch gave Chan his chance at revenge, and he took it, defeating Hellmuth for a $25k win.
Phil Gordon discusses Bad Beat on Cancer’s expanded presence at World Series of Poker and the absolutely free First Annual Bad Beat Seminar Series.
Blom Drops $459,000 to end May on a low note; meanwhile, a mystery man known only as “niantos” visits the high-stakes games - and wins!
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