Poker is, at heart, a game of numbers. While the numbers that concern most players are those involved within the game itself – pot odds, equity and the like – there’s also some fairly interesting numbers surrounding the game as well. Those are the focus of our monthly article series ‘By The Numbers’, a collection of facts, stats and miscellany that help round out a fuller picture of the pokerverse.
For April 2009:
Amount paid by Party Gaming in a settlement with the US DOJ guaranteeing Party freedom from federal prosecution: $105,000,000
Average real money hands played per hour online since February 18th: 29,166
Average hands per hour played between Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan in the durrrr challenge since it got underway on February 18th: 7.8
Patrik’s online cash results for April: +$2,162,752.33
Tom Dwan’s (durrrr) results for April: $-660,126.75
Total number of WSOP Main Event entrants from 1970-2003: 6,809
Total number of WSOP Main Event entrants in 2008: 6,844
Total amount of prize money awarded by the WSOP from 1970 through 2008: $867,253,377
Total amount of prize money awarded during the inaugural PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker: ~$40,000,000
Amount Stox Poker instructor Dusty ‘Leatherass’ Schmidt has put up as part of an open poker/golf hybrid challenge: $1,000,000
Number of takers so far: 0
Number of months it took Bodog to regain legal control over the Bodog.com domain name: 18
Number of entrants in 2009 Main Event of Foxwoods Poker Classic, a WPT event: 259
Number in 2008: 344
Total entrants / buy-ins in live poker tournaments in March 2009: 33,566 / $31,400,000
Total in March 2008: 39,172 / $39,300,000
Average traffic at PokerStars in May 2008: 12,000 players
Average in April 2009: 22,698
Largest online cash game pot played in April, Omaha: $544,623
Largest online cash game pot played in April, Holdem: $344,347
Number of gambling websites the State of Minnesota seeks to block its residents from accessing: 200
Number of child pornography sites the State of Minnesota currently blocks its residents from accessing: 0
Sources: PokerListings Market Pulse, Wikipedia, PokerPages, HighStakesDB, PokerStars, PTP News
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