A quick recap on the biggest poker news stories and highlights of 2013 which includes:

• Regulated online poker in three USA states
• Best poker operator of the Year
• WSOP & WSOPE
• Player of the Year
• Poker Hall of Fame 2013.

Certainly an interesting year for poker with a brighter outlook for 2014 especially for online poker in the USA.

Donkey of the Year award goes to Sheldon Adelson for his hypocritical anti-gambling campaign, the award is passed on from Howard Lederer who held the position for two consecutive years.

Player of the Year was none other than PokerStars legend Daniel Negreanu.

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The 45th annual WSOP 2014 dates have been announced and is scheduled to run from 27 May until 14 July, 2014.

The World Series of Poker will return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino with more than 60 WSOP bracelet events in the series.

Dates for the 2014 WSOP Main Event have been set from 5-14 July, and will take a break when the final 9 players remain.

With the recent developments in the regulation of online poker in Nevada & New Jersey, players will now be legally able to qualify for their seats to WSOP events in 2014.

The official WSOP online poker software will offer WSOP satellites to players who reside in these American states.

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The eGR Operator Awards 2013 took place at The Roundhouse in London on 25th November, the awards ceremony rewards excellence in e-Gaming each year.

888 won Operator of the year 2013, Best Poker Operator 2013 as well as Best Casino Operator 2013.

888Poker has won Best Poker Operator for three consecutive years at the EGR awards and will no doubt be celebrating their achievements in the online gaming industry.

More than 700 online gaming operators were included in the nominations with awards given out for several categories including: poker, casino, sportsbetting, bingo, mobile products and many more.

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The final table for the World Series of Poker returns on 4-5 November, nine players battling it out for the title and millions for first place finish.

888 Poker JC Chan has his eye on the prize having the chipleader advantage starting out on the final table.

Watch all the action on ESPN2, the cards will be dealt from 16:30 Pacific Time with a fifteen minute delay from the live action. Poker fans can also watch the WSOP Live Streaming sponsored by 888Poker worldwide and Slotmania in US.

Commentary will be provided by Lon McEachern, Norman Chad with additional commentary by poker legends Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth.

Before the final table started two players were inducted into the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame, Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy.

US player Ryan Riess has been crowned the WSOP Main Event champion defeating Jay Farber heads-up.

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Daniel Negreanu wins 6th WSOP Bracelet and the Player of the Year title in the final event of the Europe series, 2013 WSOP Europe High Roller Event.

Negreanu just needed to make the final table of the High Roller Event to claim his 2013 POY title and managed to win the tournament and his 2nd WSOP bracelet for 2013.

This is Negreanu’s second WSOP player of the Year title, his previous title was won in 2004 a decade ago.

Negreanu started out on the final table with the lowest chip stack and found himself head-ups verses Brazilian player, Nicolau Villa-Lobos.

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