The 2013 Retrospective Part 4

In the fourth part of our retrospective take on the year 2013, we recall the highlights of the poker world from July and August.

July

In July, the mystery surrounding one of the best online high stakes players, ‘Odd_Oddsen’, was solved. Norwegian poker pro Ola Amundsgard revealed his true identity and that he was behind both the ‘Odd_Oddsen’ and the ‘no_Ola’ screen names.

Read more on the revelation here

The month saw Main Event of this year’s World Series of Poker play down from Day 1A to the formation of the November Nine. The very first day had 943 entrants of the total 6,352 participants and the fate of the nine-handed Final Table seats was decided on Day 7.

Read more on the kick-off of the WSOP 2013 Main Event here

Read more on the formulation of the finale here

Even though one can emerge champion with a lucky streak, more than one WSOP Main Event winners have proved their worth later on as well. We tried to find the best world champion of recent years.

Read more on our research here

‘Tight-Man1’ topped the monthly online high stakes money list with $1,219,915 in winnings. Already in the middle of the month, the completely unknown ace has been dominating the high stakes field.

Read more on the newly emerging prodigy here

August

Despite his form of cerebral palsy, Jonathan Bredin took down the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown 2013 Main Event.

Read more on the extraordinary achievement here

Mimi Luu could not fold her hand, nor call with her pocket kings in the Seminole Hard Rock Open. Her tanking was a major source of fun this year in the poker community, she even inspired ’SrslySirius’ to create a video.

Fold this if you can here

Steven ’Zugwat’ Silverman won the WPT Alpha8 Florida event for $891,660 with November Nine chipleader JC Tran finishing runner-up for $526,890.

Read more on the televised high roller finale here