World Series of Poker news.
Yes, I 100% went for the cliché in the headline. I’m not a tournament director, so I need to take the one really good opportunity I have per year to use it. Maybe two, if I go for the gold on Day 1 of the Main Event. But yes, the 2023 World Series of Poker… Read more »
All thanks to the poker software Out with the old, in with the new. The World Series of Poker has replaced Event #4 on its WSOP Online schedule for Michigan and Pennsylvania, switching from a $400 Progressive Knockout bracelet event to a $500 Mystery Bounty tournament. Just like progressive knockout tournaments were all the rage… Read more »
Maurice Hawkins is the king of the World Series of Poker Circuit once again. On Monday, he won his 15th career WSOP Circuit gold ring at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina, breaking a tie with Joshua Reichard at the top of the all-time list. Reichard earned his 14th ring, tying Hawkins, at the WSOP Circuit… Read more »
Caesars is doing some rearranging of its properties on the Las Vegas Strip. On Monday, the company announced that Horseshoe Las Vegas’ Jubilee Tower will become part of Paris Las Vegas as part of a $100 million renovation project. The hotel tower will be renamed Versailles Tower and will be connected to the rest of… Read more »
Load up on energy drinks Daniel Negreanu had better get some rest over these next six weeks because he has a busy summer ahead. Over the weekend, the Poker Hall of Famer posted his schedule for the 2023 World Series of Poker and it is a doozy, leaving him with essentially no rest at all.… Read more »
It may not feel like it, but the 2023 World Series of Poker is just around the corner (a little over a month away). Earlier this week, the flagship broadcast outlet for the WSOP, PokerGO, announced its broadcast (streaming?) schedule for the run of the 2023 WSOP. Meanwhile, another announcement came out that ended one… Read more »
The World Series of Poker has announced that registration for this summer’s WSOP will open on Thursday, April 13. The Series begins on May 30 and runs through July 18. Caesars recommends players use the online registration system, which will be at bravopokerlive.com (the site does not work right now because registration is not open… Read more »
We’re about two months away from the 2023 World Series of Poker and as such, online poker rooms have started ramping up their WSOP satellites. One of those poker sites is GGPoker, which has had a tight relationship with the WSOP for several years now. On Sunday, GGPoker launched its “Road to Vegas” promotion, during… Read more »
Last year was the first year that the World Series of Poker was held on the Las Vegas Strip, jointly hosted by Paris and Horseshoe (then Bally’s). For more than a decade and a half, the off-Strip Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino was the annual home of the world’s most prestigious poker festival. That former… Read more »
Releasing the full schedule five months before the cards hit the air, the World Series of Poker is certainly vacuuming up the air in the poker community. On Thursday, WSOP and Caesars officials released the day-by-day schedule for this year’s festivities, which will run from May 30 to July 18. There is also going to… Read more »
Uh…what just happened? The latest poker controversy has dropped: a split pot at the final table of a World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit event somehow resulted in player being eliminated from the tournament. The incident occurred when the WSOP Circuit Rozvadov Main Event at King’s Casino – the home venue for WSOP Europe –… Read more »
Lon McEachern is not in the Poker Hall of Fame. He and his long time World Series of Poker broadcast partner Norman Chad have been finalists together, but they have yet to make it. When and if McEachern is enshrined, it will be for his contributions to the game in the broadcast booth, not at… Read more »
Everyone’s had their rest…now it’s time to get back in the pool! The 2022 tournament poker season seems to have just ended a couple of weeks ago as Father Time strolled out the door. With the arrival of the Baby New Year comes a brand-new fleet of tournaments and a few surprises on the major… Read more »
Horseshoe on the Strip Nearly eleven months after the original announcement, Bally’s Las Vegas has been officially renamed to Horseshoe Las Vegas. The transformation is not 100% complete, as some Bally’s logos and signage still remain, but it will all be changed soon enough. There were a couple of reasons for the name change. First,… Read more »
54th Annual WSOP Here’s an early Christmas present for poker players who are jonesing for the next World Series of Poker: Caesars Entertainment has released the 2023 WSOP dates, so break out your calendars and start planning. For the second year in a row (and likely way into the future), the WSOP will be held… Read more »
It wasn’t exactly a wire-to-wire victory, but it was a victory all the same. Omar Eljach began the eight-handed final table of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event on Wednesday as the chip leader, and in the wee hours of Thursday morning, he held all the chips, giving him his first-ever WSOP… Read more »
The final table of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event is set and it is Sweden’s Omar Eljach who enters Wednesday with the chip lead. Eight players remain, battling for the bracelet and the €1,380,129 first prize. Anything can happen at a final table – and anything usually does – but at… Read more »
The money bubble popped at the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) on Monday as just 42 players remain from the original 763 entries. France’s Alexandre Reard is the chip leader heading into Tuesday’s Day 4 with 5.100 million chips, the only player over the 5 million mark. After Reard, just two players have… Read more »
It all comes down to this. The 2022 World Series of Poker Europe has reached the €10,000 Main Event (unlike its Vegas counterpart, which is called the Championship Event, the WSOPE has always been called the Main Event) and, in a unique twist, the Day 1A field turned out to eclipse the Day 1B field.… Read more »
It is slowly coming to a close. Two weeks of poker bacchanalia at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic – otherwise known as the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe – is heading into its final events. In the Diamond High Roller, the players fought down to a player who is a known commodity… Read more »
Two-thirds of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe is in the books as of tonight, with significant action around the King’s Casino in Rozvadov. In the €2000 Eight Game Mixed tournament, Event #10 on the schedule, Thomer Pidun added his name to the illustrious list of players who have captured a WSOP bracelet. Elsewhere,… Read more »
Paul Phua had $26 million in live tournament earnings in his career, but had never won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. Until Wednesday morning. After two days of action, Phua emerged triumphant in the €25,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Platinum High Roller event at the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe, winning €482,433. “It’s… Read more »
Lubos Laska had a significant chip lead entering the final day of the World Series of Poker Europe €550 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Colossus event and though it was not a smooth ride on Monday, he arrived at his destination safely, winning the tournament and €170,568. This was the first WSOP gold bracelet of Laska’s poker… Read more »
Closing out the second weekend of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe, two events were in play. First, “The Colossus” stunned those in attendance at King’s Casino in Rozvadov with the rate of knockouts. Second, the PLO denizens showed they could get their gamble going by blowing through its Day One action. Big Plans… Read more »
After awarding four bracelets in the opening week of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe, the pace has certainly slowed. Part of the reason for that is that “The Colossus,” the €500 tournament that is Event #5 on the schedule, was taking up all the room in the King’s Casino in Rozvadov. Six Day… Read more »
