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Here’s a quick catch up from the week on PokerStarsBlog… 

  • From $100 to $1M in 11 minutes
  • Best poker interviews of all time
  • Poker’s future (found in the past)
  • Opinion: Fortnite’s Moneymaker effect? It’s complicated
  • How the Sunday Million was won (August 4)

FROM $100 TO $1M IN 11 MINUTES


BEST POKER INTERVIEWS OF ALL TIME

It got us thinking, though. What other poker interviews stick in our minds, be it for their emotion, humour, controversy, or acumen?

Here are some of our favourites.


POKER’S FUTURE (FOUND IN THE PAST)

What Harris found seems to have predicted the exact way poker is played today, 132 years later.

It’s a fascinating find. Check it out here.


OPINION: FORTNITE’S MONEYMAKER EFFECT? IT’S COMPLICATED

In front of around 15,000 people at Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York, 16-year-old Kyle Giersdorf became the inaugural world champion of the video game Fortnite, booking a victory that earned him $3 million.

While the rest of the mainstream world shook baffled heads, amazed that playing video games could earn such an enormous pay-day, poker followers were similarly bemused by the tone of the media storm—but for very different reasons.

This week, PokerStars Blog’s Howard Swains explored Fortnite’s ‘Moneymaker effect’, and asked the questions; what can poker learn from Fortnite’s mainstream success, and what can it teach?

Read the excellent piece here.


HOW THE SUNDAY MILLION WAS WON (AUGUST 4)


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