What a difference a year makes. A year ago, the final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker was playing out to its conclusion and the crowning of Hossein Ensan as the new World Champion. But, earlier during the play of the Championship Event, there was another earth-shattering occurrence that also happened (no, not… Read more »
In just the latest salvo in the ongoing war between poker professional Phil Ivey and the Atlantic City casino the Borgata, Ivey’s winnings at the 2019 World Series of Poker have been garnished and are in the hands of federal authorities. By taking this action, the state of Nevada and its businesses are officially endorsing… Read more »
The tables have been packed up, the players have scattered to the far corners of the four winds and the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino is no longer the domain of the poker world. The 2019 World Series of Poker has closed its doors on its Las Vegas run (remember, there’s still Rozvadov this… Read more »
After about four hours of heads-up play, Hossein Ensan won the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event Wednesday morning, defeating Dario Sammartino and winning $10 million plus an insane 50th anniversary bracelet worth around half a million dollars. Ensan, who grew up in Iran before moving to Germany, became the second Main Event champ… Read more »
Welcome back to our “throwback” to the way we used to do reporting on tournament poker, through what was called “live blogging.” Over the span of tonight’s show (broadcast on ESPN beginning at 10PM Eastern Time), we’ll offer some insights to the second night of action at the WSOP Championship Event, which may turn out… Read more »
It must be a pretty good feeling to go into a day knowing you are about to be at least a million dollars richer. That’s how nine men were feeling on Sunday, as the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event final table got underway. With a minimum payout of a million bucks and a… Read more »
Welcome to the first of three nights for the final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event! As we’ve done the past couple of years, we here at Poker News Daily are reviving an old practice that used to be the way people relayed information regarding a live event – blogging about… Read more »
If the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event were a horse race, the equivalent would be the Belmont Stakes, the longest race of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown. And, if it were like a horse race, we could say we have entered the top of the stretch after Day 5. But it would be… Read more »
It’s time to get serious at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. Day 4 was a crossover day of sorts, as the money bubble burst at the end of Day 3 and now it was time for players to start trying to charge up the leaderboard. With just 354 players remaining, it is… Read more »
Georgii Belianin, the poker player who was disqualified from the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event on Day 1C for taking the chips of an absent player in the seat next to his, has issued a public apology for what transpired. As witnesses to the incident told it, Belianin had been playing for a… Read more »
I should have stopped writing before my last sentence yesterday. It was in that final sentence that I predicted that the money bubble of the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event would not burst until early in Day 4. I WAS WRONG, OK? Because of course tournament officials had to let things play out… Read more »
It is a new week at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. All flights are complete – the three from Day 1 and the three from Day 2 – and now everyone who still has chips will unite into a single field today for Day 3. Everybody under one roof, all playing at… Read more »
Over the weekend, I was combing through results from the 2019 World Series of Poker, seeing many familiar names and many unfamiliar ones and wondered to myself if there had been any double bracelet winners this year. Obviously, I could have carefully studied the list of winners, but that’s a long list and I’m a… Read more »
Tonight, across the United States, people are getting an early start on the Independence Day fireworks, while looking forward to the most impressive displays tomorrow night and then figuring out creative ways to use up the rest of their celebratory explosives throughout the weekend. Most of the people in the Rio poker room in Las… Read more »
I have been in the poker/poker news industry for 14 years, but I will readily admit that I am not all that into actually watching poker. When I covered the World Series of Poker live a couple times, it was exciting to be there and I very much enjoyed the experience, but in the crowd… Read more »
Razz is a polarizing game. World Series of Poker Main Event commentator Norman Chad has led the hate parade and many people have jumped on his bandwagon. Many view it as a game based too much in luck; the best starting hands aren’t huge favorites over decent starting hands and so much of the result… Read more »
One of the things that is fun about watching poker, reading about poker, or writing about poker is that it is one of the few sports (or games, if that’s how you think of it) in which it is really easy to live vicariously through the competitors. So many of them – even the ones… Read more »
There are 47 players who have won at least four bracelets at the World Series of Poker. After winning Event #20: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud last night, long-time poker pro Eli Elezra is one of them. This was Elezra’s first WSOP win since 2015, when he won this exact same event. His first bracelet came in… Read more »
The second of nine online bracelet events at this year’s World Series of Poker was contested this weekend, with Josh “loofa” Pollock winning $139,740 and his second career bracelet. For a while, it seemed like that might be it for all of the online hopefuls in New Jersey, as the Department of Justice’s reinterpretation of… Read more »
