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Mark Radoja wins World Series of Poker Event #16

Oh Canada.

Mark Radoja managed to accomplish quite a bit today in the $10,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em Event 16. The Guelph, Ontario poker pro not only won Canada’s fifth bracelet of the summer, he also managed to buck a trend that had to be somewhat

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Tom Schneider wins World Series of Poker Event #15

Tom Schneider won two gold bracelets en route to earning Player of the Year honors back at the 2007 World Series of Poker. In the time since he’s recorded a formidable 24 WSOP-related cashes, but his highest finish is a mere 5th place, well short of the b

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Jonathan Taylor wins World Series of Poker Event #14

Prior to 2012 Jonathan Taylor’s poker resume boasted a handful of small cashes and no major victories. He was a college graduate with a full-time job living a normal life, but it wasn’t long before the 9-to-5 grind wore on Taylor. Eventually, he broke fre

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Lev Rofman wins World Series of Poker Event #12

Before the summer even began, there was quite a bit of fanfare surrounding the ten-year anniversary of Chris Moneymaker’s stunning victory over Sammy Farha in the 2003 WSOP Main Event. The talk of Cinderella stories and tales of amateurs upsetting the pr

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Levi Berger wins World Series of Poker Event #11

At a final table with bracelet winners and accomplished pros, it was the player with just a single WSOP cash to his credit who triumphed and won the bracelet Thursday night in the $2,500 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em Event.

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Brent Wheeler wins World Series of Poker Event 10

The third time was a charm for Brent Wheeler who won his first WSOP gold bracelet on the heels of his third final table appearance early Thursday morning. In addition to the trophy, Wheeler was awarded $191,605 for his championship in the $1,500 Limit Hol

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Cliff Josephy wins World Series of Poker Event #9

There are some who say that poker is now a young man’s game. The generation of hotshot online poker pros tend to get stereotyped as single twenty-somethings who divide their time between grinding the tables and living the high life.

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Michael Malm wins World Series of Poker Event #8

The Event 8 final table wasn’t quite “all Michael Malm all the time”, but it was when it mattered. The 29-year-old marketing specialist from Coquilam, British Columbia outlasted Steven Wolansky heads-up to become the third Canadian-born champion a the 201

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