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Most of the time in a poker tournament, the crème DOESN’T rise to the top. Poker is an egalitarian process, uncaring of how many times you have won or whether you have even played the game at all. At the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – continued its fortnight march on Wednesday at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. There was some unfinished business from Tuesday that had to be completed – popping the money bubble – but, with $90 million awaiting the survivors,… Read more »
It was a celebratory day at the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – at least at the start of the day. The field came together for the first time under one roof and stopped short of the money bubble on Day Three. Between the start… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – began last week, and there has been a great deal of joviality to this point. Players have come to the tables, survived their first hands – or, in some cases, first all-ins – and have enjoyed the thrill… Read more »
Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take Seven has long been known as a lucky number in gambling, and it certainly seems to be living up to its name at this summer’s 2025 World Series of Poker. On Thursday, Shaun Deeb won his seventh career WSOP bracelet, claiming the crown in the $100,000 Pot-Limit… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – is now underway. The halls of the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas are throbbing with people running around, trying either to set up their seat in poker’s most prestigious event or lamenting their departure from it. Day 1A… Read more »
Yaginuma, Carroll will still receive prize money Though it stopped short of saying collusion or chip dumping occurred, the World Series of Poker has announced that there will be no winner of the $1,500 Millionaire Maker event and no bracelet will be awarded. The two final players and the ones at the center of the… Read more »
It was arguably one of the most historic weekends in the history of the World Series of Poker. In two separate events, players would make their mark by achieving something that had never been done in the history of poker’s most storied event. As a result, Michael Mizrachi and Shiina Okamoto have etched their names… Read more »
If it sounds like the same song, different verse, you would not be mistaken. Once again, Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi is leading the way at the 2025 World Series of Poker’s $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. With seven players remaining (including for the first time a female competitor), Mizrachi has a better than average chance at… Read more »
In about two weeks, Event #92, the $1979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty tournament, will take place during the 2025 World Series of Poker. As a matter of ceremony, the newest inductee for the Poker Hall of Fame will be named before the start of the tournament (for which all Hall members have a free… Read more »
The United States may be sitting under a “heat dome” right now, but nobody on Earth is hotter than the UK’s Benny Glaser. Over the weekend, Glaser became just the seventh player in World Series of Poker history to win three gold bracelets in a single WSOP. Glaser took the crown in Event #56: $2,500… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker continues to motor along through the steamy June days, but one thing has been determined. Following input from the public, the nominees for the 2025 Poker Hall of Fame have been announced. Ten people have been selected, but only one person will be announced publicly just ahead of the… Read more »
Approximately a third of the way through the 2025 World Series of Poker schedule, the Player of the Year race is shaping up quite nicely. Of course, if someone is going to win two bracelets in the early action, they are going to put themselves in a position to win the 2025 WSOP POY battle.… Read more »
Esteemed company As the World Series of Poker adds more tournaments every year, it has become less crazy to see someone win two bracelets in a single WSOP. It’s still an amazing feat – winning one bracelet is tremendous – but doing it over the course of 100 events is quite different than doing it… Read more »
While the 2025 World Series of Poker was in full swing, the World Poker Tour wanted to try to steal a bit of thunder from poker’s biggest tournament. For the WPT, that meant wrapping up two tournaments over the weekend that were subjected to delays so they could be filmed in Las Vegas for future… Read more »
For some, it feels like the beginning of summer camp. For others, it is more akin to Christmas. But the fact remains that the World Series of Poker is the preeminent poker tournament festival in the history of the game. Tuesday marks the start of the 56th annual rendition of the tournament, and there is… Read more »
We are a week away from the 2025 World Series of Poker. The Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas are prepping for action, wheeling out the massive piles of tournament chips for poker’s greatest tournament and evaluating the dealers’ acumen. The players are also getting ready, as many competitors are looking to move up the ladder… Read more »
For women in poker, few summits are left to climb. Sure, there is the World Series of Poker’s “Main Event,” which has not seen a woman make the final table since Barbara Enright’s stirring run in 1995. However, a historical first was achieved last week in Montenegro, with Canada’s Xuan Liu becoming the first woman… Read more »
Back from the dead Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that players who were previously on the league’s permanently ineligible list are reinstated once they pass away. This means that 16 players, including on-field legends Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who were banned for gambling violations, are now back in the good… Read more »
There was a time when the World Series of Poker was sacrosanct on the tournament poker schedule. In the 21st century, however, that thought has gone out the window as several entities are looking to get a boost from poker’s longest-running tournament. Count the World Poker Tour into that mix as they will journey to… Read more »
The European Poker Tour has wrapped up its pre-World Series of Poker action with an exciting stop on the shores of the Mediterranean. Following the cancellation of the EPT stop in Paris due to political issues earlier this year, the EPT Monte Carlo was the first time that the crème of the European poker world… Read more »
While online poker receives extraordinarily little attention from state legislatures, sports betting continues to draw support from those very pols looking to raise revenues. Thirty-eight states plus the District of Columbia have passed some form of sports betting or daily fantasy sports, but one is going to have to wait for another legislative session before… Read more »
Earlier this week, the PokerGO Tour journeyed to the Champions Club in Houston for the second running of their PGT Texas Poker Open. The event was a rousing success, as the $2 million guaranteed bounty was exceeded. In the end, local player Ravee ‘Sonny’ Sundara outlasted the 699-entry field to take home a nice payday… Read more »
If you want an example of how fortunes can change quickly in poker, you need not look further than the 2025 U.S. Poker Open. After not even appearing on the leaderboard at the halfway point of the 2025 USPO, Shannon Shorr stormed from the back of the room to stun those in the competition by… Read more »
To be brutally honest, the 2024 World Series of Poker, and the $10,000 Championship Event (the “Main Event”) did not end well. The fiasco regarding Jonathan Tamayo’s win in the event – with a rail full of computers and professional players advising him – was a black eye to the sport, one that still hasn’t… Read more »
