World Series of Poker news.
There are times where I would be anywhere from ok to thrilled with my likeness being used without my consent for something that will make someone else money. For instance, I have been a zombie on The Walking Dead and if I saw my zombie face on a shirt, I think I would be pretty… Read more »
Summer WSOP action after all The picture of the 2021 World Series of Poker has become a bit clearer, as tournament organizers have released the schedule for the “domestic” portion of the WSOP Online 2021. A total of 33 gold bracelets will be awarded over 32 days, spanning July 1 through August 1. The WSOP… Read more »
ESPN was our first poker home When it comes to the World Series of Poker on television, most of us have only known it on ESPN. Sure, in recent years, streaming services like PokerGO have provided coverage, but on our tubes, it has always been ESPN. In fact, for many of us, watching the WSOP… Read more »
It has been one of the biggest questions of the year in the poker world. Will the 2021 World Series of Poker be held? We now have an answer to that – at least some of the question – as Caesars Entertainment and WSOP officials have announced the dates that the tournament schedule will tentatively… Read more »
Hotel had been closed mid-week Though COVID-19 vaccines are getting into arms at a rapid pace now, it is still going to be a while before things are back to normal in the United States. Things are definitely starting to feel a little more normal, though, as people are starting to return to some of… Read more »
McEachern and Kerstetter It won’t be quite the same as in previous years – nothing in the past twelve-ish months has been – but the World Series of Poker Main Event will once again be on ESPN a few days from now. ESPN announced on Wednesday that it will air 2020 WSOP Main Event coverage… Read more »
WSOP.com keeps its software provider 888 Holdings has announced that it has inked a multi-year extension to its B2B partnership with Caesars Interactive Entertainment. No duration or specific monetary terms were revealed in Tuesday’s press release. The upshot of this is that 888 will continue to be the World Series of Poker’s software provider for… Read more »
Million-dollar performance Paulius Plausinaitis went into the final table of the 2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit $1,700 Main Event as the chip leader and he finished the day with all the chips. Per the definition of a poker tournament, this means he was the winner (if this is your first time… Read more »
One Circuit stop each month With large-scale live poker tournaments still problematic because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Series of Poker has announced an expanded WSOP Online Circuit Series schedule. The first online festival, the Winter Online Super Circuit, kicks off Thursday, January 14 and will run through the end of the month. Every… Read more »
Finished what he started With sincerest apologies to Sir Paul McCartney, the long and winding road has finally come to an end, as Damian Salas won the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event over the weekend. What began online culminated Sunday with a heads-up match between Argentina’s Salas and the Louisiana’s Joseph Hebert for… Read more »
Wire to wire After a confusing morning, the US Bracket final table of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event ran to its conclusion on Monday, with Joseph Hebert emerging as the champion. Hebert now moves on to the heads-up match with International Bracket winner Damian Salas for the bracelet. Hebert went into the… Read more »
Upeshka De Silva tests positive for COVID-19, can’t play at final table The poker world was skeptical that the hybrid online/live 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event was going to work and it appears that skepticism was well-founded. The proof: the 2020 WSOP Main Event is now going to end in 2021. Not only… Read more »
Nine month wait All of Caesars Entertainment’s Las Vegas properties have now reopened, as the last holdout, the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino finally welcomed back guests on Tuesday, December 22 and 10:00am. The casino will be open around the clock, while the hotel will only be open Thursdays through Mondays. Unlike many casinos in… Read more »
In an announcement over their Twitter feed on Thursday, Caesars Entertainment and World Series of Poker officials announced the list of nominees for induction into the “mythical” Poker Hall of Fame (I will save my “physical” Poker Hall rant this year). The ten men on the list are no strangers to having been nominated and… Read more »
Penultimate victory One slot in the 2020 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event heads-up match has been determined. On Tuesday, Damian Salas won the final table of the Main Event’s International Bracket, outlasting seven other players at King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. For his efforts, Salas pocketed $1,550,969. Salas is not quite done… Read more »
The US Bracket final table of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event is set, with Joseph “kolebear” Hebert holding an overwhelming lead. Hebert has 13,052,534 chips, well more than his two closest competitors combined. This online portion of the Main Event was held on WSOP.com over the last two days. 705 players entered… Read more »
The international community has decided their players for the 2020 Hybrid WSOP Championship Event. Now it is the States of America’s turn to decide. This Sunday, WSOP.com in both New Jersey and Nevada will be utilized to fill out the remainder of the field for this unique tournament, playing their ONLY Day 1 and looking… Read more »
Next stop: King’s Casino The final table of the “International Bracket” of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event on GGPoker has been determined, with nine of the original 674 players still standing. Leading the way is Brazil’s Brunno Botteon with 10,317,743 chips. Nobody is within 4,000,000 of him. So ends the online portion… Read more »
International players kick it off The $10,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event kicked off on Sunday with the first of three starting flights on GGPoker. 246 players signed up for Day 1A of the “International Bracket,” with just 62 moving on to Day 2. Julian “VWgunther” Menhardt emerged as the chip leader with… Read more »
It’s right there in black and white Late last week, the World Series of Poker made the surprise announcement of a new $10,000 hybrid online/live WSOP Main Event. It has drawn mixed reviews, as do most things in the poker world, but the poker community really started rumbling when Stoyan Madanzhiev, champion of this summer’s… Read more »
2020 has seen many special events either postponed or canceled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The British Open golf tournament, the New York City and Boston Marathons, and Wimbledon were all canceled this year while other events such as the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball saw significant… Read more »
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 »
