Earl Burton

After a Monday night that seemed like it would last forever, it was a rather rapid Tuesday for the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table. It only took a couple of hours to go from the final seven players, blow past the final three players, and reach the final two survivors in the tournament. On…

Tonight…it begins. The 2026 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event,” as it has become known – will bring nine men back to Paris Las Vegas to battle it out for the coveted World Championship of poker. Alas, some of these competitors have more of a chance than the others. In…

We are less than a week from the resumption of the 2026 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event,” as it has become known. Nine men will return to Paris Las Vegas on August 3 to battle it out for the coveted World Championship of poker. Alas, some of these competitors…

We are less than a week from the resumption of the 2026 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event,” as it has become known. Nine men will return to Paris Las Vegas on August 3 to battle it out for the coveted World Championship of poker. Alas, some of these competitors…

There has been a great deal of controversy over the World Series of Poker’s Player of the Year race, but it has done one thing: completely reworked the two overall POYs in the game. A completely new list of contenders – save for a couple – has announced their intentions for the year-long race. The…

The tables are gone, the lights taken down from the ceilings of the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. The 2026 World Series of Poker only has two things left to wrap up from its summertime bacchanalia. One, the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table, which will be contested on August 3-5. The other? Might take…

At the start, 9,208 hopefuls had a single dream: to win the 2026 WSOP Main Event. Now, after almost two weeks of poker, the final nine men have been determined in the race. It is also time to epitomize one of the axioms of the United States Marine Corps when it comes to taking action…

In the late stages of the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event, WSOP officials took an unusual step. With the money bubble popped, many players still insisted on lengthy tanks, in appearance to consider their action but in reality to try to level up on the money board. This brought the “doom switch” for…

After nearly two weeks of poker warfare, it has come down to this. The 2026 WSOP Main Event has entered its penultimate day, with 21 players left to battle for the nine slots that will come back in August to determine the next World Champion. Leading the way heading into Day Eight will be the…

On Day Four at the 2026 WSOP Main Event, the tension was palpable. 1,389 players were left in the field after the Day Three battles, but seven of them would not receive anything for their efforts. After two hours, the drama broke, involving a former World Champion, and by the end of the night there…

The grind known as the 2026 WSOP $10,000 Championship Event – the 2026 WSOP Main Event, to some – continued through Wednesday as the field came together for the first time. The object of the five levels of play on Day Three was to get to the money bubble, and the field got very close.…

The 2026 World Series of Poker’s $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event” to the world – has blasted through its first four Day Ones and its two Day Two flights. Over 9,000 players entered the tournament, and as of Wednesday morning, only 3,294 of those hopefuls remain. For those who were able to watch…

The 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event is underway in Las Vegas, and ESPN has assumed command of the broadcasting duties. Day 1B is currently ongoing and, harkening back to the past in poker, how about a live blog for the proceedings? Over the next couple of hours, we’ll give you a feel for…

If you have been living under a rock somewhere, then it might have passed your attention that the 2026 World Series of Poker has been underway…for the past six weeks. All those tournaments have been a prelude to what literally thousands of people have been waiting for, and Thursday will bring that action to life.…

It might have taken an extra day, but it was worth the wait for reigning World Champion Michael Mizrachi. Going into overtime against two overmatched opponents, Mizrachi held over 80% of the chips in play in Event #70, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship. With such an advantage, Mizrachi barely broke a sweat on…

Ahead of the start of the $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event” of the World Series of Poker – the lineup on the Player of the Year race has completely shuffled. Shaun Deeb, who was near the top just a couple of weeks ago in his pursuit of repeating as POY, is now mired…

After four days of battling across several disciplines of poker, the field has been reduced to the final six players in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. Event #60 concludes today at the 2026 World Series of Poker, and the man who led Day Four has left no doubt that he is looking for the overall…

After a remarkably fast public nomination process, the Poker Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday night the final eight nominees for the Class of 2026. Due to the changes in the voting process of the living Hall members, as many as six of these players could be inducted into the Hall. Those inductions will be…

The crème is slowly rising to the top in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship, Event #60 on the 2026 World Series of Poker schedule. After three days of battle, the final fifteen men are left standing, one of whom will be a new champion for the event after the elimination of former PPC champion Brian…