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Poker by the Numbers: June

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 June 2009:

Number of events scheduled for Season 8 of the World Poker Tour: 12

Percentage of events that take place at the Bellagio: 33%

Number of events in Season 5 of the WPT: 18

Total amount of live tournament buy ins in June 2009: $123,000,000

Percent decline from total buy ins during June 2008: 29%

Amount of guaranteed prize money for the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker: $40,000,000

Total amount of prize money awarded in the 2002 inaugural WCOOP: $730,000

Number of WSOP cashes in June 2009 for Jeffery Lisandro: 6, including 2 bracelets.

Number of other live tournament cashes for Lisandro in 2009: 0

Total number of 2009 WSOP preliminary event cashes for last year’s November Nine: 10

Amount Phil Ivey is rumored to have won in side bets for capturing a WSOP bracelet ($2,500 2-7 Lowball): $12,000,000

Amount Ivey won for his bracelet: $96,367

Amount Ivey won playing high stakes online cash games in June: $525,595.55

Amount won by Tom Dwan on June 11th to pull him nearly even with Patrik Antonius in the durrrr Challenge: $376,597

Amount won by Dwan in a 2 part session on June 18th to take the lead: $761,141

Largest single pot played so far in the challenge: $477,555.50

Amount that Patrik Antonius, winner of the hand, ended down for that session overall: $391,103.50

Percentage of online cash games played that were Hold’em: 89.1%

Percentage of online cash games played full ring, shorthanded and heads up, respectively: 48.5, 50.2, 2.4

Estimated total of player cashouts frozen by the DOJ in early June: $33,000,000

Total number of individual players impacted: 24,000

Bonus on failed cash outs provided to players by PokerStars: 10% of cash out amount.

Sources: PokerListings Market Pulse, Wikipedia, PokerPages, HighStakesDB, PokerStars, PTP News.

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