Poker Tournament News
For the better part of this decade, the World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop reigned as the most expensive tournament in poker history with a stunning $1 million buy-in. This weekend, it was overtaken by the Triton Million – A Helping Hand for Charity tournament, part of the Triton Super High Roller… Read more »
The money bubble burst at the 2019 World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Festival Main Event on Tuesday as the field was trimmed from 54 players all the way to 11 heading into Day 4. Eric Hicks will enter Wednesday as the chip leader with 3.060 million, the only player to have eclipsed the 3… Read more »
There were probably a few poker players that had trouble sleeping last night in the Los Angeles area, as Day 2 finished up in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Festival Main Event just seven spots away from the money. I know if I was a short stack, I would have been tossing and… Read more »
The 2019 World Series of Poker may have ended less than a week ago and it may feel like it’s time for poker players to take a breather and relax, but the poker calendar waits for no one. The first World Poker Tour event of the new season – the WPT Gardens Poker Festival –… Read more »
Poker Central has been very active in creating programming for its streaming network. Already broadcasting the World Poker Tour final tables and some of the World Series of Poker (much to some people’s distaste), Poker Central has also created the Super High Roller Bowl and the U. S. Poker Open. These “made for streaming” events… Read more »
After about four hours of heads-up play, Hossein Ensan won the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event Wednesday morning, defeating Dario Sammartino and winning $10 million plus an insane 50th anniversary bracelet worth around half a million dollars. Ensan, who grew up in Iran before moving to Germany, became the second Main Event champ… Read more »
It must be a pretty good feeling to go into a day knowing you are about to be at least a million dollars richer. That’s how nine men were feeling on Sunday, as the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event final table got underway. With a minimum payout of a million bucks and a… Read more »
It’s time to get serious at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. Day 4 was a crossover day of sorts, as the money bubble burst at the end of Day 3 and now it was time for players to start trying to charge up the leaderboard. With just 354 players remaining, it is… Read more »
I should have stopped writing before my last sentence yesterday. It was in that final sentence that I predicted that the money bubble of the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event would not burst until early in Day 4. I WAS WRONG, OK? Because of course tournament officials had to let things play out… Read more »
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 »
Over the weekend, I was combing through results from the 2019 World Series of Poker, seeing many familiar names and many unfamiliar ones and wondered to myself if there had been any double bracelet winners this year. Obviously, I could have carefully studied the list of winners, but that’s a long list and I’m a… 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 »
Razz is a polarizing game. World Series of Poker Main Event commentator Norman Chad has led the hate parade and many people have jumped on his bandwagon. Many view it as a game based too much in luck; the best starting hands aren’t huge favorites over decent starting hands and so much of the result… 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 »
Do you like news about partypoker? Well, you are about to get more news about partypoker. The online poker room has announced that it will begin allowing players who wish to compete in the partypoker LIVE events the opportunity to begin the tournaments on the internet. It sounds a little weird, but the structure is… Read more »
One of the things that is fun about watching poker, reading about poker, or writing about poker is that it is one of the few sports (or games, if that’s how you think of it) in which it is really easy to live vicariously through the competitors. So many of them – even the ones… Read more »
There are 47 players who have won at least four bracelets at the World Series of Poker. After winning Event #20: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud last night, long-time poker pro Eli Elezra is one of them. This was Elezra’s first WSOP win since 2015, when he won this exact same event. His first bracelet came in… Read more »
It is clearly not easy to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. If it was, I would have one (to be fair, I should start by actually playing in a WSOP event, but let’s not pick nits). To win more than one is something that I, frankly, feel is absurd. On Sunday, Frankie O’Dell… Read more »
As the 2019 World Series of Poker was beginning, Season XVII of the World Poker Tour was ending and it all came to a head early this week when Ole Schemion won the Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Not that my opinion means anything, especially… Read more »
Sweet. We have a controversy at the 2019 World Series of Poker. With four players remaining in the Event #5: High Roller – $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em for the 50th Annual, veteran poker player Sam Soverel acted out of turn, potentially influencing the rest of the action and possibly contributing to Dmitry Yurasov’s elimination in fourth… 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 »
The six-handed final table has been determined for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event. The players will now take a week and a half break before commencing final table play at the Luxor’s HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas on the final day of May. Right now, it looks like a two horse… Read more »
The World Series of Poker draws the world together around the card table but, by the end of June, players are a bit spent (both physically and cash-wise). The “powers that be” with partypoker and their extremely successful LIVE series aren’t daunted by this, however, as they have teamed up with ARIA Resort and Casino… Read more »
Nobody would even argue that the World Series of Poker Circuit carries with it the same cachet as the traditional World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, but it is still a well-respected poker tour and if you are able to have repeated success on it, you are doing something right. But there is success… Read more »
