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Usually if Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow is sporting a big grin it means that somewhere a puppy has been kicked. This time the smile still came at the expense of others but nobody will begrudge him ruining the day for eight other players and capturing his third World Series of poker bracelet. Mike didn't just overcome a field of internet qualifiers and anybody who walked in off the street from their accounting job in order to spend their vacation days living a dream: he beat a field of poker players that have as much all star credibility as the current Boston Celtics team.

There are big pots in poker, and at the Seminole Hard Rock's poker Room recently two men hit the largest poker pot in Florida history. The Texas Holdem Bad Beat poker Jackpot is a popular idea, where players who should win with a nearly unbeatable hand get beat, and the jackpot pays out. In this case $564,912 was paid out on Monday June 9...

The two presidential candidates are going to be rated in a number of ways in the coming months, but one way they might not have expected was based on their support for online poker. Rich Muny, a board member of the poker Players Alliance, has rated John McCain and Barack Obama with grades. Obama gets a C, mostly because he is himself a poker player, but McCain gets a D simply because he hasn't expressed an opinion one way or another, although he did not get behind the infamous UIGEA statement.Related Articles:Obama's poker skills highlightedDoyle Brunson makes political support statement...

Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow has picked up his third World Series of poker bracelet at the 2008 WSOP, taking down a small field in Event 18 that was comprised mostly of pros. The $5,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw with Rebuys event may have had only 84 players but the prize for Mike was half a million dollars thanks to the insane amount of rebuys the pros put on the table. Jeff Lisandro took second, followed by Barry Greenstein, Erick Lindgren, Tom Schneider, Tony Guoga, and David Benyamine for the final table...

16 players out of an original field of 414 returned to the Amazon Ballroom at the Rio for Day 3 of Event #22, $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. at the 2008 World Series of poker. At the end of three long days of limit mixed games, it was Jens...

The two major bubbles - the money and final-table bubbles - ground play to a halt in Event #24 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha at the 2008 World Series of poker. But after more than 14 hours of play, the $2,500 buy-in tournament at the Rio...

You know all poker players, even the pros, tooled their games to 'A' before entering the events of the World Series of poker. read more in pokerworks.com

Only one would walk away with the most coveted property in poker - the World Series of poker gold bracelet. Yet with many names at the final table unrecognizable to most poker fans, it wasn't particularly well-attended in the Amazon Room at the Rio. But the stakes were high, and in the end, all that mattered was the poker and the players competing for the money, the title, and the gold. read more in pokerworks.com

Thirteen was the luckiest number for some, but for most of the poker players who made their way into the Amazon Room at the Rio for the World Series of poker, it continued its unlucky ways. Lot's going on; here are the recaps for the day's action. read more in pokerworks.com

Change is the word at the World poker Association. In fact, it has been in the past six months that most of the change has taken place. And just as the 2008 World Series of poker got underway in Vegas, the WPA underwent the most drastic change thus far as Wendeen Eolis resigned as Chairperson, taking eight board members with her, and Jesse Jones was reinstated as Chairman of the Board. read more in pokerworks.com