With the number of poker tournaments in the world today, it seems as though certain players are winning constantly. When a player can win a tournament in back-to-back years, however, that is something worth noting. That happened in Event #2, the $7500 Pot Limit Omaha Bounty tournament, at the 2024 PokerGO Tour PLO Series on… Read more »
The 2023 World Series of Poker has come to and end and the poker world is celebrating Daniel Weinman, who won the biggest Main Event in Series history. Loads of other players had WSOPs to remember, whether they won a bracelet (or two), made a profit, or simply got to experience the world’s greatest poker… Read more »
This afternoon, Caesars Entertainment and World Series of Poker officials announced the eleven people who are the nominees for induction into the Poker Hall of Fame. The 2023 class is split almost equally between players who have had a long history on the felt versus those who have contributed from off the velvet baize. It… Read more »
Shaun Deeb loves playing poker, loves making money. But more than most players, he really loves the competition of tournament poker. Poker is a game, after all. Deeb is one of those guys who really tries to win Player of the Year awards, to try to win more than his friends, just because those races… Read more »
It is the second Sunday of action at the 2023 World Series of Poker and there have been bracelets flying out of the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas rapidly. This afternoon at the WSOP, former WSOP Player of the Year Josh Arieh joined the highly exclusive “Five-Timers” club. In other action, the “Gladiators of Poker”… Read more »
If you’re going to show your domination is a particular discipline, then you simply pound your opposition into submission. Spain’s Lautaro Guerra Cabrerizo did just that this weekend at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas, winning three of the last four tournaments in the inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series. Along the way, he… Read more »
I bought two tickets for the record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball lottery: one was a Quik Pik and one used “my” numbers that I played two and a half decades ago that I now have to play, lest I spiral if the numbers come up and I switched to some other combination. Surprise! I did not… Read more »
The fan ballots have been tabulated and the results are in. Yesterday, World Series of Poker officials announced the ten people who have been nominated for the sole induction into the Poker Hall of Fame this year. It is a mix of those who have been down this road before, along with a few newcomers… Read more »
Just when you think you can pause for a breath, the 2022 World Series of Poker kicks the games back into action. Now comfortable in their new digs at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas, things have become almost normal (including waiting for a part for the air conditioning for the Bally’s playing arena). With that… Read more »
It seems like just yesterday that Josh Arieh found himself playing the role of semi-villain in the World Series of Poker Main Event, but that was 17 years ago. Now he is the wise poker veteran, still living in Atlanta where there is absolutely no poker except for underground games. And now he is also… Read more »
He may not be a tremendous fan of the World Series of Poker Player of the Year formula, but Phil Hellmuth certainly did his darndest to finish atop this year’s POY rankings. It doesn’t look like he will pull it off, but “The Poker Brat” has etched his name into the record books once again,… Read more »
The 2021 World Series of Poker is still creeping along, using the days after the conclusion of the $10,000 Championship Event to wrap up some unfinished business (or, perhaps, to milk a little more out of the cow). The High Roller tournaments have been the featured events over the weekend, with two of them actually… Read more »
Time is growing short if you are planning to go to the 2021 World Series of Poker Championship Event, at least as a player. The third of six Day Ones is in the books, drawing in a smaller crowd than on Friday but still bringing a respectable field. How respectable? The chip leader from Day… Read more »
Friday night at the 2021 World Series of Poker saw the second Day One of action in the $10,000 Championship Event, but more eyes might have been on “The Mothership.” The main arena in the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino’s Amazon Room was playing down the final table of the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship, and… Read more »
Coming to the final table of the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the 2019 World Series of Poker on Friday, there were plenty of eyes on the “stars” of the show. Josh Arieh, who had been hovering around the top of the leaderboard since the start of the tournament; Shaun Deeb, the defending WSOP Player… Read more »
The penultimate day of the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the 2019 World Series of Poker has arrived. After four days of play among 74 of the greatest poker players in the world, the final table will feature longtime pro Josh Arieh and a tightly packed bunch of competitors. One of those competitors, alas, will… Read more »
For the second day in a row, 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey bagged up the chip lead in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the 2019 World Series of Poker. But he isn’t the only story among the 12 men left in the event, with a nominee for the Poker Hall… Read more »
After Josh Arieh took down his first WSOP bracelet in the 1999 $3,000 Limit Hold'em event, he was asked if he had been intimidated by a final table that included Humberto Brenes, Howard Lederer and John Juanda (link all 3). He said that he didn't know who any of them were so he didn't even have a reason to be intimidated. Read more »
