World Series of Poker news.
After over three months of waiting, it has all come down to this. The 2012 World Series of Poker Championship Event final table resumes tomorrow, with the “Octo-Nine” stepping to the felt to work their way down to the final three men that will determine poker’s next World Champion on Tuesday night. For those of… Read more »
Although it might have been lost amid the clamor over Phil Hellmuth extending his record with his thirteenth bracelet win in the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Championship Event, Canada’s Mike “SirWatts” Watson had a nice evening in Cannes himself last night in winning the €50,000 Majestic High Roller. 51 players gathered earlier this… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth‘s going to have to add another finger to his promotional materials. History was made tonight – or extended, depending on your viewpoint – as 1989 World Champion Phil Hellmuth captured Bracelet #13 in defeating Sergii Baranov to take down the victory at the World Series of Poker Europe Championship Event in Cannes, France.… Read more »
The money bubble burst Tuesday at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Tuesday as the field was narrowed from 77 players to just 24. Leading the final three tables is 2010 November Niner Joseph “subiime” Cheong, who started Day 2 in 9th place. He goes into Day 3 with 1.381 million chips,… Read more »
The population of Cannes, France is dwindling. A total of 230 players from the combined Days 1A and 1B hit the felts on Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOP-E) Main Event Monday and at the end of the night, there were just 77 left with chips. The Ukraine’s Sergii Baranov enters… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOP-E) Championship Event is in the books in Cannes, France, with 205 players paying the €10,450 to get in on the action on Sunday. 115 of them survived to play in today’s Day 2 and will combine with the exact same number of players from Day… Read more »
In what was one of the quieter events on a hectic Saturday at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe, Portugal’s Francisco Da Costa Santos emerged as the champion of Event #6, the €1650 Six Handed Pot Limit Omaha tournament, over Spain’s Ana Marquez early Sunday morning in Cannes, France. Five players remained as play… Read more »
One of the final preliminary events on the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe, the €10,450 Mixed Max No Limit Hold’em tournament, went through a day of tribulation on Saturday to the point of not even determining the champion. The Final Four of the Mixed Max tournament came back on Saturday, supposedly to determine a… Read more »
The Championship Event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe is underway in Cannes, France, as poker players from around the world are gathered to win the next to last bracelet (save for the Las Vegas “Octo-Nine”) on the 2012 WSOP schedule. The Hotel Majestic Barriere became the latest battleground for poker’s elite and… Read more »
The World Series of Poker Europe has a hectic day scheduled on Saturday as two tournaments reach their conclusions (and award bracelets) while the €10,450 Championship Event is set to take center stage for the rest of poker’s denizens in Cannes, France. Event #5 – €10,450 Mixed Max No Limit Hold’em – Day Three The… Read more »
Event #4 at the World Series of Poker Europe, the €3250 No Limit Hold’em Shootout, has reached its conclusion – albeit a day late – with France taking down its second bracelet of this year’s schedule with the victory by amateur player Giovanni Rosadoni over the formidable Dan O’Brien. The second day of the tournament… Read more »
On Sunday, Imed Ben Mahmoud said it would happen. On Wednesday, it did. France got its first WSOP Europe (WSOPE) bracelet winner and, even better, it was on its home soil. Roger Hairabedian won Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha in Cannes, France, defeating a rather small field of just 96 other competitors. For his victory,… Read more »
Antonio Esfandiari is certainly enjoying himself at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) this year. Less than three months after his $18 million win in $1 million buy-in The Big One for One Drop at the WSOP in Las Vegas this summer, Esfandiari has taken the title in the €1,000 + €100 No-Limit Hold’em Re-entry… Read more »
The first event of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) came to a close Sunday at Hotel Majestic Barriere in Cannes, France with Imed Ben Mahmoud winning €147,099 in the €2,500 + €200 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em contest. While he hails from Tunisia, Mahmoud is currently as much of a local winner as there might… Read more »
The best poker players in the world have convened on the grounds of the Hotel Majestic Barriere and the Le Croisette Casino Barriere in Cannes, France, for the final World Series of Poker events of 2012. Seven events are awarding bracelets (along with a special “Super High Roller” event that isn’t a bracelet tournament) between… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced the 2012-2013 WSOP Circuit schedule Monday, revealing the largest tour of all-time, complete with an impressive 20 stops. The new season is just around the corner, beginning August 9 at the IP Casino Resort & Spa in Biloxi, Mississippi and culminating with the WSOP Circuit National Championship May… Read more »
I have never been a poker tournament director, but I would imagine one of the most difficult aspects of the job is making rulings on hands in which there are both confusion and disagreement at the table. Especially in a situation where there are potentially millions of dollars at stake. Such was the case this… Read more »
The 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) October Nine was determined early this morning and boy, is the poker community disappointed. It’s nothing against the nine skilled and fortunate men who made the final table of the Main Event. Not at all. The disappointment stems from the two eliminations that occurred before play ended Tuesday… Read more »
f there is a lesson to be learned tonight, it’s “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” Monday’s Day 7 of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is final table cut down day, the day that the field is narrowed from 27 to the November Nine (well, the October Nine, but we’re… Read more »
Are we having fun yet? Just shy of 6,600 players entered the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Now there are just 27 – three tables – remaining. Each survivor to this point is guaranteed almost $300,000, but they all have their hearts set on much more. Leading the charge to the final… Read more »
It’s getting down to crunch time in the Amazon Room at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino as the 2012 World Series of Poker Championship Event has broken the 100 players remaining mark, but the leaderboard is still tightly bunched with no single player really seizing control of the tournament to this point. At… Read more »
As expected, the Day Four action at the 2012 World Series of Poker would prove to be a day of celebration…at least for most of the 720 players who returned to the felt on Friday to contest for the title. With the payouts starting at 666 players, 54 souls would go home empty handed and… Read more »
For the first time during the 2012 World Series of Poker Championship Event, the entirety of the field gathered together in the Amazon Room at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino for Day Three of the event. After three versions of Days One and Two were wrapped up, there were 1738 players who came… Read more »
After battling through the 99 World Series of Poker Circuit All-Stars who had qualified for the event – and 57 more WSOP Player of the Year contenders who bought in for $10,000 to the million dollar freeroll – Ryan Eriquezzo emerged as the victor of the WSOP National Championship last night at the Rio in… Read more »
The final Day Two of the 2012 World Series of Poker Championship Event has wrapped up its play, sending the survivors from the day off to the first day that the field will join together this afternoon in the Amazon Room at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino. At the start of the Day… Read more »
