For the last decade (minus a brief stint in which the operator was offline due to the seizure of it domain name by the US Department of Justice), PokerStars has reigned as the world’s largest online poker room.

It was like a dreamscape for young poker pro Trevor Pope. Every card seemed to fall in his direction, every chip flowing atop his stack. Anyone who witnessed the final table of the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #2, $5k 8-handed NL Holdem, had no doubt as to the eventual winner of the bracelet.

Benny Chen, better known as “1Mastermind” to his high-stakes opponents on Full Tilt Poker, is often recognized for playing nosebleed cash games in the online poker community, but not so much for his live poker tournament play.

They say a good salesman can persuade anyone to buy just about anything, but Canadian real estate broker Charles Sylvestre won’t have a hard time convincing anyone of his dominating talents on the poker table.

A field of 1,069 posted the $1,500 buy-in to enter 2013 WSOP Event #4, a 6-handed NL Hold’em tournament, setting the stage for a massive $1.4 million prize pool wherein John Beauprez competed in one of the most fearsome final tables the World Series of Poker has seen this year.

The 2013 World Series of Poker has already gotten underway at the vast poker room of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, but it’s not too late to win a prize package with an all-expense paid trip to the City of Sin from European-based online poker room PKR.

Full Tilt Poker has earned quite a name for itself among high-stakes poker player with its long-running FTOPS tournament series, guaranteeing multi-millions in prizes to those who can afford to compete for the ultimate rewards.

While thousands of poker players have gathered in the gambling mecca that is Las Vegas to participate in the 2013 World Series of Poker, they aren’t the only ones putting their money on the line.