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PokerNews coverage, which is sponsored by Live Game Night Poker, will begin just after late registration has closed – approximately 7 p.m. PST – and continue down to a winner. Moneymaker, the 2003 WSOP Main Event champ, will join for a portion of the broadcast and interact with fans in the Twitch chat. If you’ve ever wanted to ask the Poker Hall of Famer a question, now is your chance.
The WSOP Winter Online Super Circuit started on January 14th with a schedule offering 18 Ring Events to players in Nevada and New Jersey. The plan was announced to host an online Circuit Series each month in 2021 with an expectation that they will each mimic this first series taking place currently. While PokerNews is not live reporting this Circuit Series, we are covering a handful of their events on our recently updated Twitch Channel.
A few players are already registered for the tournament including Krista “Pollux” Gifford, Alex “Shadowfiend1” Condon, Richard “flushingkid” Kwon, and Katie “azulciel” Stone, who last night topped a 528-entry field to win Event #12: $50,000 NLH Deep Stack Turbo for $18,057.60.
WSOPC January Super Series Winners Thus Far
| *Date | Tournament | Buy-in | Players | Rebuys | Total Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | Prize* |
| Thursday, January 14 | Event #1: $75,000 GTD NLH Big 500 Kick-Off | $500 | 229 | 169 | 398 | $185,866 | Toby 'DustPistons' Lewis | $35,686.27 |
| Friday, January 15 | Event #2: $40,000 GTD Limit Omaha 8 or Better | $215 | 185 | 66 | 251 | $50,200 | 'jdeane287' | $9,989.80 |
| Saturday, January 16 | Event #3: $100,000 NLH Double Stack | $320 | 420 | 181 | 601 | $180,300 | Aaron 'fishfold' Frei | $28,739.82 |
| Sunday, January 17 | Event #4: $125,000 Monster Stack | $215 | 769 | 238 | 1007 | $201,400 | Romain 'terrrr1' Lotti | $29,203 |
| Monday, Janury 18 | Event #5: $50,000 NLH Freezeout | $250 | 463 | 0 | 463 | 107,879 | Morna 'HeyNorm' Edmunds | $26,430.35 |
| Tuesday, January 19 | Event #6: $100,000 High Roller | $1,000 | 164 | 88 | 252 | $240,660 | Daniel 'bunzer07' Jordan | $49,046.50 |
| Wednesday, January 20 | Event #7: $50,000 GTD PLO Big 500 6-Max | $500 | 105 | 70 | 175 | $81,725 | Mark 'Nostradonkus' Liedtke | $17,693.46 |
| Thursday, January 21 | Event #8: $75,000 NLH | $320 | 314 | 162 | 476 | $142,800 | Daniel 'centrfieldr' Lupo | $24,418.80 |
| Friday, January 22 | Event #9: $50,000 NLH Knockout | $300 | 406 | 0 | 406 | $114,492 | Matthew 'mattyflushes' Larkin | $19,503.54 |
| Saturday, January 23 | Event #10: $100,000 NLH Double Stack | $320 | 380 | 154 | 534 | $160,200 | Srikar 'sri50k' Chadhivae | $27,394.20 |
| Sunday, January 24 | Event #11: $150,000 Monster Stack | $525 | 326 | 104 | 430 | $215,000 | Justin 'MadTitan' Turner | $36,765 |
| Monday, January 25 | Event #12: $50,000 NLH Deep Stack Turbo | $215 | 378 | 150 | 528 | $105,600 | Katie 'azulciel' Stone | $18,057.60 |
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23 Jan
Texas hold’em is by far the most popular variant of poker in the world today. It has been that way for decades but never more so than during this millennium following the poker boom.
The origins of the variant are shrouded in mystery, with very little known except the birth of the game being around the early 1900’s in Robstown, Texas. For decades the game spread like wildfire around the Lone Star state, but no further than its borders.
It wasn’t until 1967 when legends Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, and Crandell Addington upped sticks and moved to Las Vegas that people began to wonder what his new, exciting game was all about.
Beginning of an Era
At the beginning, Texas hold’em was only found at the Golden Nugget Casino, which hindered the game’s growth as the card room there wasn’t the nicest around. In fact, most professionals who were resident in the city wouldn’t consider going there.
It wasn’t until the road gamblers played a game in the entrance of the Dunes Casino that word started to spread. This was right in the middle of The Strip giving the game maximum exposure.
Around the same time a man called Tom Moore was trying to get the best poker players in the world to play at an event named the Gambling Fraternity Convention. For whatever reasons he couldn’t pull it off, so in stepped Benny and Jack Binion who bought the rights from Moore and changed the name to the World Series of Poker.
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In 1970 the WSOP circus headed to Binion's Horseshoe Casino where a series of cash games would be the format. Several games were spread with one of the variants being no limit Texas hold’em.
The Binions Take a Risk
This didn’t go unnoticed by observers who persuaded the Binions to change the format to what we still have today—a NL hold’em tournament.
It definitely took a while for the game to grow. In 1972 there were only eight entries, but this grew to around 10,000 at the peak of the poker boom.
During the 70’s Texas hold’em continued to grow in popularity, but not by as much as the top players hoped. Those guys could really see what a great game it is and wanted others to understand. It wasn’t nicknamed the Cadillac of Poker without reason.
Doyle Brunson then took matters into his own hands by writing the original classic Super System. This was the real beginning of poker growing into what it is today.
The growth, although welcome, wasn’t exactly booming. It took a few events for it to really get going.
The year 1998 was significant for a couple of reasons. It was the release date for the classic poker movie Rounders, and also when online poker was introduced to the world. Poker started to make some serious headway at this point but nothing prepared us for what was to come five years later.
In 2003 an accountant from Tennessee called Chris Moneymaker won the NL Texas hold’em WSOP Main Event after winning his seat in an $86 online qualifier.
All of a sudden, Texas hold’em was synonymous with poker. Everybody now knew the game where you got dealt two cards and had to make a five-card hand in combination with the five community cards.
And it looks so simple. Almost everybody who played the game thought they were great at it. The poker boom that took place over the next few years was unlike anything seen before because of this.
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The game of NL Texas hold’em is why poker is what it is today. It is still the most popular poker variant in the world despite serious competition from pot limit omaha, and we expect that to remain the case for many years to come.
New fans of poker could do far worse than learning how to play Texas hold’em.
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