World Series of Poker news.
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 »
As the throngs head off to the 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event, other players are finishing up the preliminary events leading to it. Three bracelets have been awarded in the final preliminaries while the “Little One for One Drop” has reached its penultimate day. Event #60 – $1500 No Limit Hold’em Coming out… Read more »
What some poker players have been waiting all summer for opened up for business on Saturday. Day 1A of the 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event took to the felt battlegrounds of the Rio at noon sharp yesterday, with the defending champion of the tournament, Ryan Riess, stepping up to defend his title. As… Read more »
With the Championship Event on the horizon at the 2014 World Series of Poker, several preliminary events have either wrapped up or are on their final days of action. In three of the tournaments champions were determined, while the “Little One for One Drop” still has a sizeable field to contend with. Event #58 –… 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 2014 World Series of Poker is reaching the top of the stretch run, but that didn’t stop two more bracelets from finding deserving owners on Saturday. In an overtime match, David Miscikowski was able to outlast Norbert Szecsi to take the title while, in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em World Championship, David Olson emerged as… Read more »
He’s already done more in his career arguably than any other player all-time, but the (too-soon to call him “legendary”?)Phil Ivey etched another chapter in his legacy at the 2014 World Series of Poker. In Event #50, the Eight Game Mixed Event, Ivey became only the fourth player to crack the double-digit mark in bracelets… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker has been running at full throat for the last four weeks, but today is something that many players have been looking forward to. For the first time since its introduction in 2012, the $1 million “Big One for One Drop” will take to the floor of the Rio All… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker moved on its action on Friday as one bracelet was awarded in a tournament. In another event, the players battled late into the night before pausing action with two players remaining. Event #48 – $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Low Split 8 or Better In what turned out to be… Read more »
After over 11 hours of card-based combat, veteran poker professional John “Johnny World” Hennigan earned his third lifetime World Series of Poker bracelet in taking down arguably the WSOP’s most prestigious title in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. Coming to the final table, 2014 WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Shack-Harris (4.101 million chips) was ruling over… Read more »
On Wednesday at the 2014 World Series of Poker, two more bracelets were handed out to well-deserving champions. In Event #45, Will Givens was able to grasp the golden bracelet that eluded him only a week earlier while, in Event #47, Jesse McEuen earned the championship of the unique Ante Only tournament. Event #45 –… Read more »
In what turned out to be arguably one of the longer – and most entertaining – days of play in a tournament at the 2014 World Series of Poker, 2014 WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Shack-Harris is in the hunt for a second bracelet as he leads the history-making $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. 22 players came… 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 »
On Friday, the 2014 World Series of Poker welcomed two more players to the all-exclusive WSOP bracelet club. In one event, it was a first timer who would take the trophy while in the other it was someone who had already tasted victory at this year’s Series. Event #37 – $1500 Pot Limit Omaha After… Read more »
Business was booming on Saturday at the 2014 World Series of Poker as three events awarded bracelets, including the first bracelet in a unique tournament that saw many poker variations dealt that haven’t graced the felt at the WSOP for many years. Event #39 – $3000 No Limit Hold’em Battling through a 992 player field,… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker will award two more bracelets on Thursday as eleven players vie for the championship of Event #37, the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament. In the other event, German professional George Danzer heads a powerful final 13 that will contest for the WSOP bracelet. Event #37 – $1500 Pot Limit… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker has broken the halfway mark on its march to the 2014 Championship Event as two more bracelets were awarded on Wednesday. One event went so quickly that it didn’t need a fourth day and another saw one of the members of the 2010 “November Nine” denied his first bracelet.… 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 »
