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Jeff Gross, The Voice of GGPoker As the dust settles on another World Series of Poker, the conversation inevitably turns to what’s next for the game we all love. This year marked a significant milestone – GGPoker’s first year running the WSOP after their landmark acquisition. The integration of digital innovation with poker’s most prestigious […]
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Dai Ishibashi’s Journey To Full-Time Poker Meet Dai Ishibashi, the third last Japanese player remaining in the Main Event. Dai joined the World Series of Poker after qualifying through a $1,000 satellite tournament on GGPoker as part of the Road to Vegas promotion. “I jumped into the direct satellite because the odds were just better. […]
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From Singapore to the Strip The first step towards winning the WSOP Main Event is getting there. With a $10,000USD buy-in, travel and hotel expenses, plus money for food and maybe some entertainment, it’s a goal that most people will be hard pressed to achieve. That’s one of the reasons GGPoker offers the Road to […]
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From Football Tragedy to Poker Triumph: Ruben Correia’s Inspiring Journey Whether you are raised in North America with baseball and hockey, Europe and South America with football and basketball, or in Asia, where cricket and table tennis reign supreme, there is one thing that unites us all: the thrill of competition. Some people excel at […]
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The Footballer’s Poker Dream: Stefan Nemetz’s Final Table Run Each day of the WSOP Main Event is draining. Each hand, each deal, each run out. Every minute that passes during the 12-hour days takes a little bit more from each of the players. Once you are in the money, there is some momentary relief granted, […]
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From Brazil to the Big Stage: An Unexpected WSOP Journey Getting into the WSOP Main Event can be a challenge. First, you need to come up with the $10,000 buy-in. Then you need to arrange a place to stay in Las Vegas, plus there’s food, entertainment, and other things to keep you busy and out […]
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Age Is Just a Number: Guy Holtzman’s Incredible WSOP Journey Cards and card games can be traced back to as early as the 9th century in China. It is believed that from there, playing cards spread throughout the world, and people in different regions created their own games and card variations. The one thing all […]
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Winning the World Series of Poker Main Event is a dream that lives in the minds of every poker player, at least everyone I have met, including myself. The unfortunate reality is that most poker players will never win the big one, but it will never stop players from coming to Las Vegas from around […]
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From Professional Footballer to Poker Pro: The Steve Enriquez Story In the course of a “regular” life, we are born, go to school, and find work to support ourselves and, depending on the situation, our family. If we are lucky, somewhere along the way, we find something we have a true passion for. We nurture […]
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Road to Vegas Meets r/Poker Part of GGPoker’s ideology is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to play poker. We also try to share the experience of poker with as many people as possible. This led us to a relationship with the r/poker subreddit and its thousands of players. GGPoker put up two seats […]
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The Stage Is Set The familiar mix of anticipation and anxiety hangs thick in the air at Paris and Horseshoe, mixing with the scent of fresh felt, coffee, and that indefinable Vegas aroma of dreams deferred and fortunes about to be made. It’s 11 AM on a Tuesday in July, and the World Series of […]
Stories from the Rail
When the event started, there were 2,139 entrants, 409 of whom qualified through GGPoker. Just 25 remained at the start of the final day, and eight were left after the dinner break; only one was from the field of GGPoker players. We had a chance during the dinner break to sit with him, and while […]
