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It is a new week at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. All flights are complete – the three from Day 1 and the three from Day 2 – and now everyone who still has chips will unite into a single field today for Day 3. Everybody under one roof, all playing at… Read more »
The first of two-Day Twos set flight on Saturday after what was a tremendously tumultuous Friday of action at the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event. Unlike the turmoil of Day 1C, Day 2AB (the combination of Days 1A and 1B) went through five levels of action with…GASP!…only POKER being played! By the end… Read more »
To say that there have been some strange occurrences going on at the Rio for the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event (the “Main Event”) would be a huge understatement. A check of the lunar calendar doesn’t show that there is a full moon or any other heavenly alignment to cause issues, but there… Read more »
Tonight, across the United States, people are getting an early start on the Independence Day fireworks, while looking forward to the most impressive displays tomorrow night and then figuring out creative ways to use up the rest of their celebratory explosives throughout the weekend. Most of the people in the Rio poker room in Las… Read more »
I have been in the poker/poker news industry for 14 years, but I will readily admit that I am not all that into actually watching poker. When I covered the World Series of Poker live a couple times, it was exciting to be there and I very much enjoyed the experience, but in the crowd… Read more »
Coming to the final table of the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the 2019 World Series of Poker on Friday, there were plenty of eyes on the “stars” of the show. Josh Arieh, who had been hovering around the top of the leaderboard since the start of the tournament; Shaun Deeb, the defending WSOP Player… Read more »
The penultimate day of the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the 2019 World Series of Poker has arrived. After four days of play among 74 of the greatest poker players in the world, the final table will feature longtime pro Josh Arieh and a tightly packed bunch of competitors. One of those competitors, alas, will… Read more »
For the second day in a row, 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey bagged up the chip lead in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the 2019 World Series of Poker. But he isn’t the only story among the 12 men left in the event, with a nominee for the Poker Hall… Read more »
For much of the first month of the 2019 World Series of Poker, it has seemed like the bracelet races were going to those who already had one, two, or three WSOP wins on their record. And that’s great – it is further evidence that poker is a game of skill, that the best players… Read more »
The game show Jeopardy! has been on the air for decades, a staple in homes across America, but rarely has it been appointment viewing like it was this spring when professional sports bettor and former semi-pro poker player James Holzhauer went on a run the likes of which had only been seen a couple times… Read more »
After rumors of a deal swirled, Eldorado Resorts, Inc. and Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced on Monday that they have agreed to a merger, forming the largest gambling company in the United States. The combined company will operate close to 60 casino-resorts in 16 states, including the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, home of the World… Read more »
Everyone knows that Phil Hellmuth has the record for the most World Series of Poker bracelets won (15), but when it comes to the best of those that have never won a piece of the coveted jewelry, it is a lively debate. On Saturday, three men who were arguably atop the list for the dubious… Read more »
In what was arguably the most talent-laden final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker so far, two Poker Hall of Famers squared off on Wednesday night to determine the champion of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud event. In the end, it was John ‘World’ Hennigan who got the best of Daniel ‘Kid Poker’… Read more »
As partypoker moves to purge its site of third-party software tools (and partypoker is only the latest one to do this, not the only one), another online poker network is doing the exact opposite. The Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) announced on Monday that it is going to make tracking hands easier to do than it… Read more »
Look at any tournament schedule nowadays and you will see a predominance of Texas Hold’em tournaments on the roster. But what is arguably the true test of a poker player is their skills in non-Hold’em games – Stud, Razz, even Omaha. Over the past couple of days, two of the veterans of the game with… Read more »
The final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker’s $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship couldn’t get to the six players left that seems to be the trend of this year’s tournament, but they got close. They will come back today with six players left and determine the champion, with Italy’s Dario Sammartino holding a dominant lead… Read more »
The second of nine online bracelet events at this year’s World Series of Poker was contested this weekend, with Josh “loofa” Pollock winning $139,740 and his second career bracelet. For a while, it seemed like that might be it for all of the online hopefuls in New Jersey, as the Department of Justice’s reinterpretation of… Read more »
After battling through the largest entry field in the history of the event, Femi Fashakin completed what he started. Coming to the final table of the “BIG 50” at the 50th Anniversary World Series of Poker, Fashakin wasn’t even slowed down on his way to capturing the biggest payday of his career and his first… Read more »
The 2019 World Series of Poker is off to its second weekend of action, but there is plenty left over not even looking to the weekend. That “little” $500 buy-in event called the “BIG 50” has finally reached its final table and five other events will be at some point in their action. That doesn’t… Read more »
If you are currently playing on partypoker and you love your screen name, I suggest taking a picture of your monitor because that screen name will disappear in a couple weeks. In a move we heard was coming about a month ago, partypoker announced late last week that with a major software update on June… Read more »
The first weekend of the 2019 World Series of Poker will wrap up today, but there’s no rest awaiting those in the Rio on Sunday. Two tournaments will be looking to crown champions while the “BIG 50” enters its final Day One and the Mixed Triple Draw tests the wills of its competitors. “BIG 50”… Read more »
We’ve already hit the first weekend of the 2019 World Series of Poker, but there were some loose ends to tie up before the weekend bacchanalia could begin in earnest. In a tough battle against the Media Director of the WSOP, Nicholas Haynes was able to emerge as the champion of the Casino Employees Event.… Read more »
On only the second day of the 2019 World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, we’ve already seen the first bracelet awarded. Coming through one of the tougher final tables you’ll see in any tournament schedule, Brian Green was able to outlast an all-star final table in… Read more »
It is Christmas, New Year’s Day and the Fourth of July (which now falls during the event) all rolled into one. For the denizens of the world of poker, there’s almost nothing better than the start of the World Series of Poker. The 2019 version, the 50th anniversary of the event, is now underway with… Read more »
Did you wake up this morning with a sense of anticipation? A feeling of elation that you haven’t felt since last year? Or were you like me and woke up to an e-mail informing you that your homeowner’s insurance policy is lapsing because your mortgage loan company’s system screwed up the premium payment?* If it… Read more »
