Poker Tournament News
Monday night marked the end of Day 2 of the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $50,000 Poker Players Championship (PPC), a tournament arguably more prestigious in the poker community than the $10,000 Main Event. The PPC debuted in 2006 as a H.O.R.S.E. tournament, with the idea that the expensive buy-in and mixed game format… Read more »
The $111,111 One Drop High Rollers Event may be taking center stage right now at the 2013 World Series of Poker, but there are other tournaments to be played and other bracelets to be won. One of those tournaments, Event #48: $2,500 Six-Handed Limit Hold’em, concluded Friday night with 27-year old poker pro Marco Johnson… Read more »
After Thursday night’s controversy surrounding the close of Day 2 and a table re-draw on Day 3, the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #47: $111,111 One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold’em Event forged ahead on Friday. There were 26 players remaining to begin Day 3, but only 24 of them would avoid exiting… Read more »
Norbert Szecsi earned his first World Series of Poker bracelet Tuesday, winning 2013 WSOP Event #42: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. It was just the fourth WSOP cash of his life (all but one has come his summer) and the $345,037 prize for first place is more than double the total of all his previous live tournament… Read more »
Jesse Martin had already come really close to his first career World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet this summer, finishing tenth in two tournaments. He finally made it nine spots farther Tuesday, as he won the 2013 WSOP Event #43: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, garnering over a quarter million dollars in the process. The… Read more »
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And again. And yet again ad infinitum. Such is the mantra to which Steve “gboro780” Gross must subscribe as after fifteen fruitless tournaments at the 2013 World Series of Poker, he finally broke through, not only cashing, but winning Event #41: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha. Gross… Read more »
Sometimes is better to be lucky than good. Not that Jared Hamby isn’t a good poker player. He is. It’s just saying…whatever, you know what I mean. Hamby showed off his poker skill for three days and used, yes, a little luck to earn his first gold bracelet, winning 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP)… Read more »
Vancouver’s Daniel Idema won the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #39: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better early Monday morning after almost 100 hands of heads-up play and 301 hands at the final table overall. Beating out names such as Layne Flack, Kristy Gazes, and Poker Hall of Famer Linda Johnston… Read more »
Sunday marked the last day, Day 3, of the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #38: $2,500 Four-Handed No-Limit Hold’em. It was expected to be a relatively quick day as far as WSOP tournaments go, as with just eight players remaining and only four people to a table, the action was going to be… Read more »
Chris Dombrowski began travelling to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker as soon as it was legal for him to do so. He experienced some success right away; in 2008, he cashed four times, including a top fifteen finish. He cashed eleven more times in the years to follow, but was… Read more »
Three events will resume Tuesday at the 2013 World Series of Poker while two more will commence. Let’s take a quick look at what is going on at the Rio, focusing on some history that could be in the offing: Event #29: $5,000 H.O.R.S.E. The $5,000 H.O.R.S.E. event couldn’t quite finish Monday night/Tuesday morning, as… Read more »
World Series of Poker tournaments are long. Obvious statement is obvious, I know. One of the byproducts of a multi-day tournament is that because so many hands are played from start to finish, the chip leader after Day 1 almost never goes on to win. Jason Duval scoffed at history, though, taking the lead at… Read more »
We knew Day 4 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #27: $3,000 Mixed Max – No Limit Hold’em was going to be short. After all, there were just two players left. But in this case, short turned out to be a relative term, as those last two players required three and a half… Read more »
Monday is going to be a busy one at the Rio as four tournaments pick up mid-stream and one more gets underway. Let’s take a spin around the poker room: Event #27: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mixed Max It will be short day for Event #27, as just two players remain in the tournament: Max Steinberg… Read more »
Ken Lind has fathered seven children and spent more than two decades in the military. Cash in a World Series of Poker tournament? Nope, he had never done that. Never, that is, until early Monday morning, when he not only cashed, but won the 2013 World Series of Poker Seniors Event and earned $634,809. A… Read more »
Davidi Kitai is not a household name in the poker world, but perhaps he should be. On Wednesday morning, Kitai captured his second career World Series of Poker bracelet, winning Event #19: $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em. Kitai is no stranger to success. Not only was this not the first time he was fitted for a WSOP… Read more »
Taylor Paur was already a star in the online poker world. Now he has the hardware from the live tournament circuit to go along with his internet millions after winning the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. Let’s get one thing out of the way first: obviously Phil Ivey did not… Read more »
Two more gold bracelets will be awarded tonight at the 2013 World Series of Poker, while two other tournaments are mid-stream and one will be kicking off. Let’s see what’s going on at the Rio… Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Taylor Paur has a substantial lead over his 13 opponents heading into the final day… Read more »
Former restaurateur-turned-poker pro Athanasios Polychronopoulos captured his second career World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet early Tuesday morning, winning Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, good for over a half million dollars. Polychronopoulos actually made a bit of World Series of Poker history, as his previous title came two years ago in another $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em… Read more »
One of the signature events of the 2013 World Series of Poker wrapped up over the weekend as Canadian Mark “AceSpades” Radoja won the Event #16: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em. The Main Event may get the headlines, but many players look at this tournament as the one they want to win. 162 players lined up… Read more »
In 2007, Tom Schneider won the World Series of Poker Player of the Year (POY) award. He was a relative unknown at the time; there were likely many utterances of the phrase “Tom who?” when people looked at the POY leader board that year. It was easy to like they guy – he had that… Read more »
Three events in the 2013 World Series of Poker continue Monday and one more champion will be crowned. Let’s take a look at what is on-tap today. Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em David “Bakes” Baker heads the final 15 players in Event #17, one of the many $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em events at this year’s World… Read more »
While he has maintained a solid lead on many of the Player of the Year leaderboards since his February/March rush, Paul Volpe is now facing some serious competition as the poker world turns its attention to the World Series of Poker and its seven weeks of competition. On the Bluff Magazine POY, Volpe’s once dominant… Read more »
Last year, Jonathan Hilton finished second a $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). As Field of Dream’s Moonlight Graham may have said, “It was like coming this close to your dreams…and then watching them brush past you, like a stranger in a crowd.” Last Friday, Hilton got another shot at… Read more »
As you no doubt already know and we’ve already discussed, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) kicks off this week. Interestingly enough, though, the WSOP is not the only tournament series that will be taking place at the Rio this summer. Caesars Entertainment is resurrecting the Carnivale of Poker, a once popular poker festival that… Read more »
