Online Poker Players Dominate WSOP Europe

Online poker players have dominated the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe, with stars from 888Poker, PokerStars and even the embattled Full Tilt Poker taking plenty of the prize money.

Online Poker Player Wins Main Event

This dominance was stamped at the Main Event, when American online poker professional Elio Fox overcame a big chip deficit to defeat fellow online player Chris "Moorman1" Moorman to claim the $1.928 million first prize.

Fox, 25, who known on PokerStars and FullTilt Poker as smokrokbyflock and on Absolute Poker as Turboking333, took up the game full-time after graduating from Bard College and found that he was making big profits. He said, "I like living a lifestyle that involves a lot of freedom."

The Real Deal

Online poker is the real, deal as was proved throughout WSOP Europe. The final table of the 3,000 euro shootout event was an all-internet affair, with American Tristan "Cre8ive" Wade edging out fellow cyberspace battlers Michael "SirWatts" Watson, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Richard Toth, Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer, Emil "whitelime" Patel, John "Texdue" Ambrust, Taylor "ambiguosity" Paur, James "Flushy" Dempsey and Max Silver.

Just to show how much the new generation has taken over, the oldest player on that table was 32. We wonder which site will produce the next great poker champion.