After a two year hiatus, the Caesars Cup will once again be up for grabs during this year’s World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes, France. Back in 2009 in London, the Caesars Cup was devised as a poker competition between two teams of players from the Americas and Europe, roughly akin to golf’s [...]
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Caesars Cup Competition To Return To WSOP Europe

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Bodog Releases November Nine Betting Odds

With the November Nine officially in place, it’s always interesting to see how the oddsmakers view the crop of players at the biggest final table of the year. Online bookmaker Bodog released the odds of each player winning the World Series of Poker Main Event yesterday, giving poker fans and betto [...]
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2011 WSOP November Nine is Set

Everyone knew where this road was headed, we just didn’t know who would get there. Just 22 players entered play at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Tuesday with a chance to make the final table and come hell or high water, the field was going to be narrowed to nine [...] [...]
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Erika Moutinho, David Sands Flirting with WSOP History

With the eliminations of Claudia Crawford and Amanda Musumeci on Sunday, Erika Moutinho is officially the last woman alive at the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event. Moutinho, a native of Easton, Conn., finished Day 6 with just over 2 million chips and has joined the likes of Maria Ho, Tiffany Mi [...]
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David Bach Leads WSOP Main Event With 142 Remaining

Georgia-based poker pro David Bach leads a field of 142 heading into Day 6 of the World Series of Poker Main Event. Bach, best known for winning the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship in 2009, more than quadrupled his stack on “Moving Day” as the field was trimmed down from 378 Saturday. Ba [...]
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WSOP Main Event Money Bubble Bursts, Manoj Viswanathan Leads After Day 4

Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Main Event brought a lot of excitement and several tense moments as the money bubble approached late Friday afternoon. A total of 853 players made their way to the Amazon Room knowing that only 693 would cash, and the title of “bubble boy” was at the fo [...]
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ESPN’s Same-Day WSOP Main Event Coverage Begins Thursday

Day 3 of the World Series of Poker Main Event kicks off at noon PST Thursday, and for the first time ever poker fans will be able to watch the action in near-real time. ESPN will be providing tape-delayed coverage of the tournament for the next six days — until the November Nine is set [...] [...]
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Aleksandr Mozhnyakov Leads 2011 WSOP Main Event Day 2A Survivors

The first four flights of Day 1 of the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, along with all the associated pomp and circumstance, are in the books, so now it’s time to get down to business. Many players just wanted to get past Day 1, but those that are left are focused on [...] [...]
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Maynard Little Heads Day 1D Survivors at 2011 WSOP Main Event

The final flight of the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Day 1 wrapped up Sunday night with Charlotte, North Carolina’s Maynard “Mory” Little emerging as the chip leader of Day 1D, with a stack of 179,450 chips. That total ranked him as the third biggest stack out of [...]
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Bracelet Winners Thriving at WSOP Main Event

For the third straight day, a former bracelet winner has finished atop the chip counts at the World Series of Poker Main Event. California-based poker pro Kevin Song joined Fred Berger and Ben Lamb in that regard by amassing a stack of 163,325 chips on Day 1c Saturday. Song, who won a $2,000 Limit H [...]
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Ben Lamb Leads WSOP Main Event Day 1b Field

What a summer for Ben Lamb. The Las Vegas poker pro known as “benba” last month followed up a second-place in the $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha event by winning his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship. He then took eighth place in the $50,000 Poker P [...]
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WSOP Main Event: Fred Berger Leads After Day 1a

The World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off Thursday with 897 players participating on Day 1a, the first of four starting days in poker’s biggest showcase. The field was down about 20 percent from the 1,125 entrants that participated in 2010 — not surprising given the lack of online [...]
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Doyle Brunson to Sit Out 2011 WSOP Main Event

The $10,000 Main Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is set to launch this week, but despite the thousands of players expected to compete, the electric atmosphere, and all the pomp and circumstance that comes with the biggest poker tournament in the world, there will be a noticeable void [...]
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WSOP $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship Underway

The World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship kicked off Saturday with 128 players, an eight percent increase from last year. The stout field generated a prize pool of $6,144,000 with first place earning $1,720,328. Second place will also pick up a seven-figure score of $1,063, [...]
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Ben Lamb wins WSOP Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Ben Lamb is known as one of the best Pot-Limit Omaha cash game players around. It might be about time to remove the “cash game” qualifier from that description. Coming off a runner-up finish in the $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) just a week ago, [...]
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2011 WSOP on Record Pace

So who predicted that the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) would be on a record-breaking pace at its halfway point? You did? Liar. After the United States online poker market imploded as the result of the U.S. Department of Justice indictments of eleven principals at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars [...]
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Eric Rodawig Wins $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship; Phil Hellmuth Second

Considering he has a record eleven World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelets, the old saying “always the bridesmaid, never the bride” wouldn’t quite be appropriate, but it must feel like that for Phil Hellmuth this summer. Early Tuesday morning, Hellmuth fell just shy of his tw [...]
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Mike Sexton Falls Just Short of WSOP Bracelet #2

Hall of Famer Mike Sexton might best be known for his unparalleled wit as the voice of the World Poker Tour. But at the core Sexton is a poker player. He’s proven his knack for playing cards for more than three decades, and this week he was inches away from claiming his second ever World [...] [...]
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Frenchmen Bertrand Grospellier (ElkY), Elie Payan Win WSOP Gold

With titles on the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour to his credit, along with numerous online accomplishments, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is considered one of the most talented No Limit Hold ‘em tournament players on the planet. The Team PokerStars Pro has accrued more tha [...]
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More First-Time Winners at 2011 WSOP

The story at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) over the weekend was the incredible battle between all-time greats John Juanda and Phil Hellmuth in the $10,000 2-7 No-Limit Draw Lowball Championship. It would have been interesting enough had it just revolved around Juanda winning his fifth gold brac [...]
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John Juanda Denies Phil Hellmuth of 12th Bracelet

Phil Hellmuth was so close to winning his 12th bracelet on Saturday night you could virtually hear the cork pop on the Dom Pérignon. Hellmuth absolutely punished the final table of the $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship to reach heads up play with another legend of the game, John Juanda [...]
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Phil Hellmuth Approaches Bracelet #12

There are several fascinating storylines going into the final day of the World Series of Poker $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship. The stacked field of nine features two former WSOP Main Event champions, a former WSOP Europe Main Event Champion, and the winner of last year’s 2-7 Draw Lowbal [...]
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Viacheslav Zhukov Wins WSOP Omaha High-Low Split Championship

Russia’s Viacheslav Zhukov entered the $10,000 Omaha High-Low Split Championship this week as one of only a few unfamiliar faces in the tournament. But the 22-year-old poker pro, playing in his first World Series of Poker, never felt threatened playing in one of the most star-studded fields of [...]
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WSOP Monday: Bracelets Aplenty

There was no shortage of action at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) on Monday, as three bracelets were clinched in three entirely different events. To be fair, the final days of two of the tournaments were actually started on Sunday, but the bracelets were won after the clock struck midnight, [...]
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Eugene Katchalov Captures WSOP Bracelet #1

Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet Saturday by winning the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud title in Las Vegas. The 30-year-old pro from New York collected $122,909 in prize money and removed his name from the list of the best players in the world that have [...]

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