Rebuy revolts, ebayed bracelets and what Harrah’s says should never be larger than 12 inches – those stats and more in our monthly round up of the numbers that form the fabric of the pokerverse.
Total number of tournaments in the Sunday online tournament schedule that Daniel Negreanu called “a monster challenge for me”: 7
Tom Dwan’s lead in the durrrr Challenge as of the end of January: $1,077,932.50
Number of hands won by Dwan vs number of hands won by Antonius: 17,041 / 14,753
Number of scheduled events at the 2010 Bellagio Five Star World Poker Classic that are rebuy events: 17
Total number of events at the series: 18
Amount that T.J. Cloutier’s 2005 WSOP bracelet sold for on eBay: $4,006
Career tournament earnings of new all-time tournament money leader Phil Ivey: $12,804,433
Amount Ivey won playing online cash games in 2009: $6,337,702
Amount poker pro Eric Baldwin gave to his alma mater Wisconsin-Whitewater’s baseball program: $200,000
Amount poker pro Dusty ‘Leatherass’ Schmidt earned during his 30 hour charity poker session: $21,000
Number of times a bot (automated player) program for Zynga Poker on Facebook has been downloaded from Google code: > 90,000
Amount of hands Insidulr1 played during a January 17th session of $5/$10 NL: 30
Won / loss for session: -$433
Number of online poker players State Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-Union), who is sponsoring legislation to legalize intrastate online gambling in New Jersey, estimates are in the state: “Probably 500,000″
Size limit established by Harrah’s for an “individual logo, patch or block of promotional language” on player apparel: 12 square inches
Amount of record-setting bad beat jackpot at Caesar’s in
Atlantic City, hit on January 16th: $553,958
Number of hands analyzed in a Cornell study that concluded the more hands you win, the higher your chance of being a losing player: 27 million
Approximate number of poker tables added to Pennsylvania ‘racinos’ after table games were legalized in early January: 140
Amount of guaranteed prize money for FTOPS 15: $17 million
Amount of guaranteed prize money for the first FTOPS, held three years ago: $1 million
Amount you could earn on top of your rakeback in the 2010 PTP Rake Challenge: $8,000. Learn more about the PTPRC here, and view all of our available rakeback offers by clicking here.
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