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Yesterday, we reported on the Trump Taj Mahal and Ultimate Poker forging a partnership to bring online gambling to the state of New Jersey. Today, two more deals between Atlantic City casinos and online gaming providers have been made public. The other Trump property in Atlantic City, Trump Plaza, has reportedly partnered with online gaming… Read more »
Ultimate Poker, the first legal, licensed online poker room to go live in Nevada, is making a push to become the first to go live in New Jersey. The Stations Casinos-owned site announced Monday that it has inked a deal with Trump Taj Mahal Associates LLC to offer real money online poker in the Garden… Read more »
The final weekend before the start of the $10,000 Championship Event next weekend wrapped up on Sunday, with several notable pros stepping up to capture WSOP bracelets in a multitude of poker disciplines. Event #49 – $1500 No Limit Hold’em This particular $1500 NLHE tournament drew in a nice sized field of 2247 but, by… Read more »
Three days of battle wasn’t enough for the competitors in the “One Drop High Rollers” event as four men came back on Saturday to determine the champion of the epic tournament. The four men – chip leader Bill Perkins (14.7 million), Anthony Gregg (13.9 million), Chris Klodnicki (12 million) and Antonio Esfandiari (9.2 million) –… Read more »
After Thursday night’s controversy surrounding the close of Day 2 and a table re-draw on Day 3, the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #47: $111,111 One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold’em Event forged ahead on Friday. There were 26 players remaining to begin Day 3, but only 24 of them would avoid exiting… Read more »
It is going to be another frenetic weekend at the 2013 World Series of Poker, kicked off on Thursday by the awarding of two more bracelets in the unique “Ante Only” tournament as well as the $3000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo event. Event #45 – $1500 Ante Only No Limit Hold’em The final nine men… Read more »
The 2013 World Series of Poker is steaming along well past the halfway mark of the tournament schedule, awarding another bracelet in a No Limit Hold’em event that ended in a stunning fashion. Event #44 – $3000 No Limit Hold’em 1072 players started out the tournament on Monday but, by the time Day Three was… Read more »
Jesse Martin had already come really close to his first career World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet this summer, finishing tenth in two tournaments. He finally made it nine spots farther Tuesday, as he won the 2013 WSOP Event #43: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, garnering over a quarter million dollars in the process. The… Read more »
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And again. And yet again ad infinitum. Such is the mantra to which Steve “gboro780” Gross must subscribe as after fifteen fruitless tournaments at the 2013 World Series of Poker, he finally broke through, not only cashing, but winning Event #41: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha. Gross… Read more »
Sometimes is better to be lucky than good. Not that Jared Hamby isn’t a good poker player. He is. It’s just saying…whatever, you know what I mean. Hamby showed off his poker skill for three days and used, yes, a little luck to earn his first gold bracelet, winning 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP)… Read more »
Sunday marked the last day, Day 3, of the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #38: $2,500 Four-Handed No-Limit Hold’em. It was expected to be a relatively quick day as far as WSOP tournaments go, as with just eight players remaining and only four people to a table, the action was going to be… Read more »
On Saturday at the 2013 World Series of Poker, two more bracelets were handed out. In one event, a popular face on the European poker scene captured his first bracelet while in the second a veteran poker player from the past earned his first ever bracelet. Event #36 – $1500 No Limit Hold’em Shootout Yesterday… Read more »
The 2013 World Series of Poker is set for another exciting weekend of action, yet it was the performance of two popular poker professionals that has captured the attention of the poker world over the last two days in Las Vegas. Event #32 – $5000 Six Handed No Limit Hold’em Coming into the day on… Read more »
Battling back from the short stack at the start of the day’s play, Australia’s Jarred Graham outlasted a strong field in Event #31, the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hold’em Hi/Lo tournament, to take down his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet. The leaderboard was packed with strong players as the final fourteen competitors moved… Read more »
Six years ago, most people in the poker world didn’t know who Tom Schneider was. Then he won two World Series of Poker bracelets and was named 2007 WSOP Player of the Year. Today, he’s a well-known poker player, albeit maybe not quite a household name, and he’s on his way to eclipsing his fantastic… Read more »
We knew Day 4 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #27: $3,000 Mixed Max – No Limit Hold’em was going to be short. After all, there were just two players left. But in this case, short turned out to be a relative term, as those last two players required three and a half… Read more »
Ken Lind has fathered seven children and spent more than two decades in the military. Cash in a World Series of Poker tournament? Nope, he had never done that. Never, that is, until early Monday morning, when he not only cashed, but won the 2013 World Series of Poker Seniors Event and earned $634,809. A… Read more »
After two long Day Three’s of work, two more bracelets were awarded at the 2013 World Series of Poker on Saturday night/Sunday morning. In one tournament, a longtime poker professional was able to outlast a difficult final day field to take the bracelet, while a newcomer to the WSOP felt was able to vanquish a… Read more »
The third weekend of the 2013 World Series of Poker got off to a big start on Friday as veteran poker professional David Chiu, playing a tournament in honor of a longtime friend of the poker world, took down his fifth bracelet and Josh Pollock earned his first WSOP bracelet in Pot Limit Omaha. Event… Read more »
It may have taken a bit longer than planned, but the bracelet was finally awarded in Event #20, the $1500 Omaha Hi/Lo tournament, while the action in Event #21 at the 2013 World Series of Poker awarded its bracelet as planned on Thursday night. Event #20 – $1500 Omaha Hold’em Hi/Lo After battling through ten… Read more »
The 2013 World Series of Poker has reached the one-third mark of its 62 event schedule. While it was expected that one event would award a bracelet last night, play was suspended early this morning as the final two combatants reached the “ten level rule” cutoff without determining a champion. Event #20 – $1500 Omaha… Read more »
Davidi Kitai is not a household name in the poker world, but perhaps he should be. On Wednesday morning, Kitai captured his second career World Series of Poker bracelet, winning Event #19: $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em. Kitai is no stranger to success. Not only was this not the first time he was fitted for a WSOP… Read more »
Former restaurateur-turned-poker pro Athanasios Polychronopoulos captured his second career World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet early Tuesday morning, winning Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, good for over a half million dollars. Polychronopoulos actually made a bit of World Series of Poker history, as his previous title came two years ago in another $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em… Read more »
In 2007, Tom Schneider won the World Series of Poker Player of the Year (POY) award. He was a relative unknown at the time; there were likely many utterances of the phrase “Tom who?” when people looked at the POY leader board that year. It was easy to like they guy – he had that… Read more »
On Saturday night at the 2013 World Series of Poker, Jonathan Taylor was able to outlast one of the larger fields of this year’s schedule (1819 players) in winning his first WSOP bracelet in Event #14, the latest $1500 No Limit Hold’em tournament. Taylor was only one of two men who were over the one… Read more »
