The Poker Decade

During this decade, poker was brought up from smoke-filled card rooms into everyone’s living room. Poker sites, and even traditional media, started covering the game. These are the 19 biggest news stories from the decade. Poker Spot Unable to Pay out Winnings (2000) World Championship of Online Poker Introduced (2002) World Poker Tour Is Launched (2002) Late Night Poker.

This was the decade when everybody started to play poker. Many celebrities were attracted by the game and went to Vegas to take down some money and possibly to boost their careers. The majority of these celeb players are not particularly skilled, but here are nine who actually can play the game. 9.

Every poker player knows how it feels to miss every hand while the steam pressure intensifies. Eventually something – a bad beat, what an opponent says or a bad play – will trigger an explosion and you find yourself in the middle of a poker blow-up. Here we list the 10 biggest blow-ups of the century, at least among those caught on tape. 10.

Poker as game and industry, boomed in the early noughties and subsequently insta-grew to epic proportions. Today hundreds of poker rooms, magazines, sites and events fight over the same plate. And as the hype over poker seems to be cooling, new poker players are not that easy to come by anymore. The fierce competition has however resulted in some rather impressive advertisements and creative work.

*Gus Hansen is known for playing any two cards and then suckout on his opponents if needed. The proof is in these clips. Or is it?* Gus Hansen vs. Erik Seidel Gud Hansen vs.