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On Monday night just before the start of heads-up play in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, former Main Event champ Dan Harrington and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel were inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. The two members of the Class of 2010 received a commemorative trophy and spoke for… Read more »
Ke$ha is blasting inside of the Penn and Teller Theater here at the Rio in Las Vegas and we’re just an hour and a half away from the start of heads-up play in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Poker News Daily rolled up to the off-Strip hotel around 5:30pm local time… Read more »
Recently, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and its title sponsor, Jack Link’s Beef Jerky, extended their sponsorship deal. As the title sponsor of the biggest tournament in poker, the event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino will continue to be known as “The World Series of Poker Presented by Jack Link’s Beef Jerky”… Read more »
On Sunday, World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event finalists Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener met the media and a host of family and friends at the Masquerade Stage at the Rio in Las Vegas. The festivities followed a meatball eating contest sponsored by Martorano’s, an on-site restaurant featuring world-class Italian food. Joey Chestnut was… Read more »
Joseph “subiime” Cheong was eliminated in third place in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event to set up heads-up play on Monday night between Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener. The former will hold just over a 6:1 edge in chips after entering the final table as the chip leader this afternoon. Duhamel… Read more »
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi went from chip leader five-handed to out the door in fifth place shortly before 1:00am PT at the Rio in Las Vegas in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table. Mizrachi’s chips went into the middle with Q-8 on a flop of Q-5-4 and found himself up against… Read more »
It’s that time of year once again, when poker’s elite gather to Las Vegas to watch the final nine members of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event play down to a winner. This year, the winner will receive $8.9 million. In this article, I’m going to break down the November Nine and give… Read more »
On Tuesday night, the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event November Nine was determined as part of ESPN’s continuing coverage of the tournament. The back-to-back one-hour episodes featured the second half of Day 8, when 18 players remained. Pascal LeFrancois was the chip leader and 14 players were American. Two stacks at the… Read more »
The 2010 running of the Foxwoods World Poker Finals, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), wrapped up on Tuesday with 22 year old Jeff Forrest taking down the title for $548,000. He’s now one-for-one in WPT tournaments and told WPT officials during heads-up play, “I keep thinking I am going to wake up.”… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals is set. After an abbreviated play down day on Monday, Tom “Kingsofcards” Marchese leads the six-handed finale. Marchese will come armed with plenty of televised final table experience after having won the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event earlier… Read more »
Monday marks the play down day in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals. Twelve players will assemble at the Connecticut casino this afternoon to play down to a winner, who will walk away with a $548,000 grand prize. Tom “Kingsofcards” Marchese leads the way with a stack of 1.8 million, nearly double… Read more »
Could another online poker player take down a major live tournament? It’s certainly shaping up that way at the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals, where Chris “Big Huni” Hunichen paces the field after three days of action. The tournament will crown a winner on Tuesday, when general elections will occur in the… Read more »
Registration remained open through the first level of play on Friday in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals. When the cash boxes closed for business, 242 players had registered for the $10,000 buy-in tournament, a drop of 31% from the 353 that entered last year. In 2009, Cornel Andrew Cimpan took home… Read more »
Jim Anderson became the first ever champion of a World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Regional Championship after trumping the field in Hammond, Indiana. The $10,000 buy-in tournament started with 226 players and Anderson banked over $500,000. Anderson finished 242nd in this year’s Main Event in Las Vegas, driving deep in poker’s most prestigious tournament.… Read more »
Parting ways with UB.com recently were Matt “mattg1983” Graham, Michael Binger, and Billy “Patrolman35” Kopp, who no longer appear on the room’s list of sponsored pros. UB.com makes its home on the USA-friendly CEREUS Network along with its sister site, Absolute Poker. Graham’s contract originally ran for one year and the young poker gun was… Read more »
The 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event field shrunk from 27 players to 18 on Tuesday night as the tournament aired on ESPN. Two players began with over 20 million in chips and five of the top nine stacks were seated at the ESPN feature table. PokerStars pro Johnny Lodden was the first… Read more »
The very first World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Regional Championship kicked off on Monday from the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, just outside of Chicago. The $10,000 buy-in tournament, whose price tag is equal to that of the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, drew 226 players for a total prize pool of $2.1… Read more »
It was another rough week to be a contestant on the PokerStars-sponsored “Million Dollar Challenge.” The poker game show, which airs around NFL coverage on FOX every other Sunday, pits online qualifiers against celebrities and PokerStars pros with a chance at $1 million on the line. Longtime sportscaster Chris Rose serves as its host. After… Read more »
The finals of the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship began airing on Saturday night on GSN. The $50,000 buy-in tournament had worked its way down to four teams, each vying for a $1 million top prize. Every team left standing is guaranteed to take home at least $100,000 for making the final table. Allen Cunningham… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker, the world’s second largest online poker room, sent an e-mail to an unknown number of recipients last week regarding the measures being taken to improve its security, according to PokerTableRatings and other outlets. The e-mail informed players that the site had completed an investigation that found several users in violations of Full… Read more »
In breaking news from Las Vegas, the seventh season of “High Stakes Poker” will tape from November 18th to 20th, as GSN has given the green light for the newest installment of the cash game poker franchise. The location, time, air date on GSN, and players involved have not yet been announced, but poker fans… Read more »
Randal Flowers, who can be found in online circles under the handle “RandALLin,” came out on top of the field in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago on Wednesday night. Following extended play on Tuesday, the six-handed final table took fewer than 100 hands to complete and Flowers walked away with $831,000. Flowers… Read more »
Longtime poker pro Randal “RandALLin” Flowers is the chip leader entering the final table of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago. After extended play on Tuesday, Flowers will come armed to the six-handed televised final table with 40 big blinds. The action picks back up today at 4:00pm PT. Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler was… Read more »
The Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was announced on Tuesday morning. 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Dan Harrington and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel will be enshrined during a ceremony on November 8th at the Rio in Las Vegas. Harrington received four of this author’s ten Poker Hall of… Read more »
With 13 players remaining in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago, a familiar face sits perched atop the leaderboard. Full Tilt Poker pro Annette Obrestad, the winner of the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event, is the lone player over two million chips in the Bellagio tournament. The final elimination… Read more »
