World Series of Poker news.
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak and the inability for many to travel, Caesars Entertainment utilized one of their biggest assets – the name of the World Series of Poker – and went online (for its part, Caesars has given lip service to having a live schedule in the U. S. in 2020, but time is… Read more »
Before the 2020 World Series of Poker Online began, Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu offered up a couple bracelet prop bets, as he often does. One for which he got a couple takers was an even money heads-up bet on who would win a bracelet. Ali Imsirovic and Connor Drinan took him up on… Read more »
After pulling a stunning one-outer out of the fire near the final table, Bulgaria’s Stoyan Madanzhiev battled back to capture the championship of the 2020 online WSOP. In defeating the 5082 entries that were compiled over a two-week period, Madanzhiev earned his biggest payday in his career – and in the history of online poker… Read more »
There is one day left in the 2020 World Series of Poker Online $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event on GGPoker as just 38 players remain after this past weekend’s Day 2. Leading the way is Bryan Piccioli with 18,417,494 chips. In my friend Earl Burton’s previous update on the WSOP Online, he said it looked… Read more »
You could be forgiven if you didn’t know it, but the 2020 online WSOP Main Event is ready to start “Day 2” this afternoon. To cover their $25 million guarantee, however, they have had to run 22 “Day Ones,” even running one on the VERY SAME DAY as the start of “Day 2.” In other… Read more »
If you didn’t know that the 2020 online WSOP Main Event was going on right at this moment on GGPoker, you could be forgiven. To Saturday, there have been six “Day Ones” played out, with the plan to play 22 “Day Ones” to get the numbers for the online Main Event. In addition, the players… Read more »
After a week’s delay, David Peters battled his way through two tough competitors – one well known and the other the “Cinderella story” of the tournament – to capture his second bracelet at the 2020 online WSOP. Along with picking up the bracelet in this $10,000 event, Peters also took down a $360,480 payday and… Read more »
There are just a few major events left on the schedule for the 2020 online WSOP at GGPoker (more on that in a minute), but one of them is being completed today. Event #54, the $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold’em Championship, has come down to its Final Four and the players have been champing… Read more »
Last night, I wrote that Norman Chad is just about the last person in the poker world you would want to see get COVID-19 (I don’t want anyone to, but that’s not the point), but unfortunately, he did. Using a little parallel article structure for a moment, the last person in the poker world I… Read more »
One of the biggest tournaments to date at the 2020 online WSOP, the $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold’em Event (#54 on the schedule on GGPoker), has worked its way down to the Final Four competitors. Of the 128 players who started the tournament, the four – three gentlemen and a lady – outlasted the… Read more »
Especially with the size of the fields, it was thought to be an impossibility – someone winning two 2020 online WSOP bracelets. That theory was trashed on Thursday night, however, as Alek ‘astazz’ Stasiak earned his second WSOP bracelet of 2020 in taking down the $1000 No Limit Hold’em tournament on GGPoker. It only took… Read more »
The 2020 online WSOP rolled along on Wednesday, this time completely on the GGPoker platform. It turned out to be a historic night as, after an 11-hour battle on the virtual felt, Ireland’s Eoghan O’Dea made history in winning Event #51, the $400 Pot Limit Omaha tournament. Truly International Event Draws Large Field There was… Read more »
The first 31 events of the 2020 online WSOP are in the books, and the first leg of the 2020 online WSOP has been completed on WSOP.com. At about 6AM Saturday morning, online player ‘2Rivers’ was able to vanquish the 1455 player field to pick up a six-figure payday. The action now moves over to… Read more »
The 2020 online WSOP rolled along on Wednesday as two notable pros – Kristen Bicknell at GGPoker and Nick Guagenti at WSOP.com – emerged from two large fields to take their respective gold bracelets. While capturing their new pieces of jewelry, the duo also picked up two of the larger paydays of the entirety of… Read more »
This week, Roberto Romanello got his name on a very short list, becoming just the ninth player in poker history to win poker’s Triple Crown. In winning the 2020 World Series of Poker Online Event #39: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, Romanello he nabbed his first career WSOP bracelet. That, along with previous World Poker Tour and… Read more »
Would’ve made George Carlin blush Daniel Negreanu is in internet jail. On Sunday, Twitch suspended the Poker Hall of Famer’s channel following an incident during his Friday night stream in which he let loose with a barrage of expletives and threats on a viewer. Negreanu was playing in the 2020 World Series of Poker Online… Read more »
With action going on across two platforms, the 2020 online WSOP has ramped up the action. For the first full weekend of play on WSOP.com and GGPoker, the bracelets have been flowing like water. That doesn’t mean that the crème of the crop hasn’t come to the fore, however, as top pro Nick ‘samadhi’ Binger… Read more »
Tony Dunst won the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Event #21: $777 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed on Tuesday night, nabbing $168,342.09 for the victory. Using the screen name “Panoramic,” Dunst outlasted 848 opponents; the 849 total entries and 512 re-buys grew the prize pool to $952,700. This is Dunst’s second career bracelet – he… Read more »
Popularity: a blessing and a curse It was certainly an exciting weekend at GGPoker, as the first World Series of Poker Online bracelet to be awarded outside of the United States was won by Shoma “pp_syon” Ishikawa of Japan, but connectivity issues marred what would otherwise have been a celebratory Sunday. Included in the problems… Read more »
Three sevens on a slot machine usually means a jackpot for the person that hits it (“777”). That was the case for popular tournament professional Pat ‘IchiiKawawa’ Lyons on Saturday morning as he picked up his first piece of jewelry at the 2020 online WSOP. Saturday evening turned out to be Scott ‘BudLightLime” Hempel’s coming… Read more »
Now well into its second week, the 2020 online WSOP has been consistent with its field sizes and prize pools. As they prepare to start up the “international” leg of the 2020 online WSOP on GGPoker, WSOP.com will continue to have tournaments up until the end of July. Getting ready to start the second weekend… Read more »
2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Joe McKeehen won his third career bracelet on Tuesday, taking down Event #14: $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller at the 2020 WSOP Online. The tournament had a prize pool of more than $1.5 million after 368 players entered and 128 re-bought. It took him a grueling 14… Read more »
Gotta do what you gotta do This COVID-19 pandemic has turned the poker world (and everything else) upside down. The World Series of Poker is weird right now. The live Series postponed (probably cancelled, if I may use another parenthetical), one leg of the WSOP is being played online right now on WSOP.com with another… Read more »
Sometimes the rich and famous are just like the rest of us. And this weekend, it was Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu to whom we could all relate. During the 2020 World Series of Poker online, in the middle of a live stream, Negreanu’s connection to the WSOP.com went down multiple times on Friday,… Read more »
Event #11 of the 2020 online WSOP is in the books and it took no time at all – turbos are like that! In the end, Raman ‘Acrogum’ Afanasenka took down the championship in a little over seven hours. Also in the event was 2020 online WSOP bracelet winner Robert ‘bustinballs’ Kuhn, who extended his… Read more »
