With the three starting flights out of the way and all the registration and prize pool numbers discussed, it is time to make the trek into the meat of the 2014 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event. We’re still not yet at a single, unified field, but we’re getting closer. On Tuesday, the 505… Read more »
If there is a bad time to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event, it is smack dab in between the million dollar Big One for One Drop and the crown jewel of the WSOP, the $10,000 Main Event. I mean, no time is really a bad time to win a WSOP tournament, what… Read more »
On Sunday, WSOP officials said that registrations for Day 1C of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event had already surpassed the total registrations for Day 1B, while Day 1B was going on. As such, it was expected that Day 1C would be gigantic. It was. The Day 1C field of 3,968 players set… Read more »
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 »
Loyalty programs have been one of the core components of the online poker experience for ages (does the history of online poker even have ages?). Sure, players want to play in quality poker games on a software client that runs smoothly, but part of the fun, part of the impetus to sit down and play… 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 »
Chad Brown, actor, model, baseball player, poker pro, and one of the greatest ambassadors the game of poker has ever had, passed away early Wednesday morning after a long bout with cancer. He was 52-years old. We all like to think we are going to leave our mark on this world, that peoples’ lives will… Read more »
It appears that the four and a half year drama between Two Plus Two Publishing and Russell “Dutch” Boyd may finally be at an end. Last week, Boyd sent a letter of apology for the whole saga to Mason Malmuth, owner of Two Plus Two; Malmuth published the letter on Two Plus Two’s ever-popular poker… 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 »
