Poker Tournament News
On Sunday, WSOP officials said that registrations for Day 1C of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event had already surpassed the total registrations for Day 1B, while Day 1B was going on. As such, it was expected that Day 1C would be gigantic. It was. The Day 1C field of 3,968 players set… Read more »
It was no surprise that Day 1A of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was a little light; the first flight usually is. Pro poker players don’t normally like to have multiple days to wait before Day 2 if they make it through Day 1 and those that flew in just for… Read more »
It was Daniel versus Daniel. One, a young online heads-up specialist, the other one of the greatest live tournament players of the last couple decades. Appropriately, it might seem, it was the heads-up specialist that triumphed heads-up, as Daniel Colman defeated Daniel Negreanu last night to win the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,000,000… Read more »
It was a long, long, long Day 2 at the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop Event as play dragged on into the wee hours of Tuesday morning before it was time to call it a night (or almost day). The plan for Monday was to narrow the field… Read more »
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. David Olson, the winner of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Fixed-Limit Hold’em event, originally just planned on playing in the Monster Stack event, but was convinced by his friends to play in the Fixed-Limit Hold’em Championship and he ended up winning the whole thing. Haixia… Read more »
One of the most highly anticipated tournaments of the 2014 World Series of Poker, the million dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop, got going Sunday as some of the poker and business world’s elite plunked down an ungodly sum of money to try to win an ungodlier sum of money and/or a platinum bracelet.… Read more »
The World Series of Poker is in full swing at the Rio in Las Vegas, but that doesn’t mean people can’t get excited for even more tournaments to come. This week, the WSOP released the official schedule for the 2014-2015 WSOP Circuit, setting it to begin at the end of July at the Palm Beach… Read more »
Day 3 has been completed at the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #46: the $50,000 The Poker Players Championship and though the tournament has not reached the money yet, the finish line approaches. Just 22 players remain out of the 55 that started play on Tuesday and with eight eliminations today, the money… Read more »
Even at only 30-years old, Jordan Morgan has been around the poker scene for what seems like forever. Well known as one of the earliest online poker celebrities, “iMsoLucky0” is well respected in the game, even if he does consider himself “semi-retired” on his Twitter page. But even with all the success he has had,… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #46: $50,000 The Poker Players Championship is in the books with Jason Mercier out in front in what still remains a close race at the top of the leaderboard. The second day of this tournament was a significant one, as it was the first… Read more »
The highlight tournament of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) other than the $10,000 Main Event got underway Sunday as a loaded field of players sat down for Event #46: the $50,000 The Poker Players Championship. The event has not lost its luster after almost a decade, both players and fans consider it the most… Read more »
Sometimes, when writing these pieces about the World Series of Poker (WSOP), I try to come up with some sort of interesting narrative about the winner to put his accomplishment in perspective or at least make the story more entertaining. In the case of Eric Buchman, though, his victory in the 2014 WSOP Event #34:… Read more »
He might not be widely loved in the poker community, but you can’t say Dutch Boyd can’t play poker. On Tuesday, Boyd won his third World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, taking the hardware in 2014 WSOP Event #33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. Boyd has been under a lot of scrutiny for over a decade,… Read more »
It appears that Brett Shaffer has found his niche in the live poker tournament world. For the second time in two years, Shaffer won a $1,500 No-Limit event, winning 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em on Monday. This go around, there were 1,631 entries in the event, creating a $2,201,850… Read more »
Monday featured what could be argued to be the highlight final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) so far. Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em was already considered a fairly prestigious event. It’s one of a dozen $10,000 events this year (a baker’s dozen if you count the Ladies Event) and is,… Read more »
It really is a wonder that there is room enough at the Rio to house all these tournaments of the 2014 World Series of Poker. Five bracelets were awarded this weekend and in addition to those events, four more tournaments began and have yet to finish going into Monday. Let’s take a look at the… Read more »
Tuesday’s final tables may have been highlighted by Dominik Nitsche winning his second tournament of the 2014 WSOP and Chris Wallace winning the prestigious $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, but there was one more bracelet up for grabs yesterday in 2014 WSOP Event #23: $1,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold’em. A familiar name to many in the online poker… Read more »
There is winning a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and then there is winning a World Series of Poker bracelet. Minnesotan Chris Wallace won his first in style Tuesday as he triumphed over a very strong field in 2014 WSOP Event #21: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. This was the fifth $10,000 event of this year’s thirteen… Read more »
We’re only two weeks into the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and we already have our first double bracelet winner. Dominik Nitsche, who previously won the WSOP National Championship which was held just before the WSOP-proper, took the title in 2014 WSOP Event #21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em yesterday, adding $335,659 to his bank account.… Read more »
2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em entered Day 3 with just 12 players of the original 2,086 remaining, and even though it took a few hours to get down to the official final table, we knew we would see a champion crowned Monday. That man was former United States Marine… Read more »
Kory Kilpatrick certainly knows how to make the most of his World Series of Poker final table appearances. On Monday, the professional poker player from Athens, Georgia, won his first-ever bracelet, nabbing the jewelry in the 2014 WSOP Event #20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout in what was also the first trip to a WSOP final… Read more »
You know a poker tournament is special nowadays when it gets the legendary Doyle Brunson to register. Such was the case with 2014 World Series of Poker Event #18: $10,000 Seven Card Razz, the most expensive razz tournament in WSOP history. “Texas Dolly” doesn’t compete in this tournaments much anymore, but this one was apparently… Read more »
It is a full slate Monday at the 2014 World Series of Poker as four events pick up where they left off over the weekend and one event gets underway. Enough of the formalities, though; let’s have a quick look around the Rio to see what will be going on today. Event #19 – $1,500… Read more »
Grinders grind. Small cashes, large cashes, they keep playing tournament after tournament to make a living. It’s what they do. And Dan Heimiller is one of tournament poker’s most successful grinders. In 2002, he won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. After a dozen years of grinding the WSOP, he finally won another… Read more »
Four hours after the Casino Employees Event kicked off the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the highlight event of the first week, Event #2: $25,000 Mixed Max No-Limit Hold’em began its four day journey. In this Mixed Max tournament, Day 1 is played with nine-handed tables, Day 2 is six-handed, Day 3 is four-handed,… Read more »
