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2. Archie Karas - Wikipedia

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   Anargyros Nicholas Karabourniotis [2] (Greek: Ανάργυρος Καραβουρνιώτης, born November 1, 1950), commonly known as Archie Karas, is a Greek-American gambler, high roller, poker player, and pool shark famous for the largest and longest documented winning streak in casino gambling history, simply known as The Run, when he drove to Las Vegas with $50 in December 1992 and ...

3. World Series of Poker - Wikipedia

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   The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a series of poker tournaments [1] held annually in Paradise, Nevada and, since 2004, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment.It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker players to the Horseshoe Casino for a single tournament, with a set start and stop time, and a winner determined by a secret ballot of the seven players.

4. Chip Reese - Wikipedia

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   World Series of Poker commissioner Jeffrey Pollack said upon his death that many consider Chip "the greatest cash game player who ever lived, but he was also a World Series of Poker legend." [19] Reese's house in Las Vegas was put up for sale on June 8, 2008, at a price of $5,699,500. [20]

5. Johnny Chan - Wikipedia

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   In 2005, Chan collaborated with Mark Karowe to release Play Poker Like Johnny Chan (ISBN 1-933074-48-5), an instructional book on several different types of poker. [34] On November 28, 2006, the follow-up titled: Million Dollar Hold'em: Winning Big in Limit Cash Games ( ISBN 1-58042-200-4 ), which focuses on limit hold'em strategy, was released.

6. 2004 World Series of Poker - Wikipedia

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   The 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe after Harrah's Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January. Harrah's announced that future WSOP tournaments will be held in a moving circuit of member casinos.

7. Annie Duke - Wikipedia

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   She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone, and she published her autobiography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, in 2005.