For August 2009:

Number of 1k events the WSOP is rumored to be adding to the schedule for 2010 – 5

Progress the 2M2MM guys have made toward their $2 million goal through the first three episode of the series: $114,400

Largest overall loss of the 2M2MM through three episodes: Dani Stern, $114,400

Patrik Antonius’ August results in the durrrr challenge: +$807,658

Antonius’ overall lead at the end of August: $76,104

Three largest pots played online in August: $603,752, $585,952 and $570,906.

Winner of all three: Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan

Loser of all three: Martonas

Number of players in the November Nine now sponsored by Poker Stars: 3

Number of players in the November Nine now sponsored by Full Tilt: 3

Maximum number of players that any one company can sponsor after a new rule introduced by Harrah’s for the 2009 WSOP: 3

Amount that Brian Townsend was won playing PLO online over the last 11 months: $2.5 million

Amount that he left online after announcing he was quitting PLO forever: $50,000

Prize a player could win if they triumph in PokerStars new heads up poker challenge TV show ‘Million Dollar Challenge’: $1 million

Number of episodes that Full Tilt Poker’s similar show ‘Face The Ace’ lasted: 2

Record-breaking revenue decline for Atlantic City, year-to-date: 15%

Amount Party Gaming paid to acquire most of the assets of the World Poker Tour: $12.3 million

Amount Phil Ivey is rumored to have riding on side bets related to the final table of the WSOP: $10 million +

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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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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