The long-awaited winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event was crowned on Monday night. The heads-up match pitted a Russian, Ivan Demidov, against Denmark native Peter Eastgate. In front of a packed house at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas, the two battled it out for the $9.1 million first place prize. Read more »
Jeff Haney is a reporter for the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. He's been on the scene at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event and will, along with a throng of fans, return to the Rio on Monday night. Play between Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate will kick off at 10:00pm local time and continue until one man is $9.1 million richer. Read more »
Ylon Schwartz, a member of the WSOP November Nine, just finished fourth in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, cashing for $3.77 million. He talks about how he got started in poker as well as his thoughts leading up to poker's most prestigious tournament. Read more »
After a 117 day layoff, the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event resumed on Sunday night. At the end of play, two men were left standing and will now compete for the $9.1 million first place prize: Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov. Read more »
Following in the graces of fellow World Series of Poker "November Nine" member Dennis Phillips, PokerStars Pro Ylon Schwartz has auctioned himself off for charity. Schwartz has hired Recordweb Communications to promote his marketing endeavors and is offering a 10 square-inch advertising patch on his hat, chest, or arm to the highest bidder on eBay. Read more »
The chip leader at the World Series of Poker Main Event final table is Dennis Phillips. He sits with nearly 27 million chips, one of just two players over the 20 million mark. Phillips has undertaken a massive amount of charity work since the tournament played down to its final nine participants in July. Read more »
The World Series of Poker is one of the marquee events to air on ESPN. New episodes currently air on Tuesdays and are replayed numerous times throughout the week on its family of networks. On November 11th, just a few hours after it concludes, the WSOP Main Event final table will air. Read more »
The man who patented the "Hole Card Cam" will be enshrined in the Poker Hall of Fame in November. Entrepreneur and World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Henry Orenstein will be honored during the WSOP Main Event final table on November 9th at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Read more »
When the final nine players return for the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event on November 9th, they won't be headed to the Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino. Instead, the action will move to the Penn and Teller Theater inside the hotel, where the final table participants will quite literally take center stage to determine a winner. Read more »
Ylon Schwartz is a member of the World Series of Poker November Nine, the players at the Main Event final table. He is passionate about the fact that the conclusion of the tournament should not have been postponed and now finds himself in the middle of the fray, holding the fifth largest chip stack when play resumes. Read more »
When play resumes in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table, Darus Suharto will be sixth in chips. He is the self-proclaimed amateur at the table and has had his life turned upside-down ever since the tournament wrapped up play in July. Read more »
On Tuesday, the World Series of Poker Main Event will air two one-hour episodes at 9:00pm ET and 10:00pm ET. The field of the final 27 players will take to the felts inside of the Rio in Las Vegas. Players left in the field may shatter a bevy of milestones, making every episode a truly entertaining affair. Read more »
David "Chino" Rheem will have the seventh largest chip stack at the final table when play resumes in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. Ever since the tournament was paused for over 100 days starting back in July, his world has been turned upside down. Read more »
On Tuesday night, millions of viewers will witness Day 2A and likely Day 2B of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event on cable channel ESPN. The action begins at 9:00pm ET on the Worldwide Leader in Sports. Read more »
When viewers across the United States tune into ESPN tonight, they'll witness the first of 18 hours of coverage from the World Series of Poker Main Event. The massive tournament began on July 3rd from the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Read more »
World Series of Poker Main Event chip leader Dennis Phillips pledged1% of his tournament winnings to the Prevent Cancer Foundation's "Bad Beat on Cancer," and PokerStars will match his contribution. Read more »
Several major names in the world of poker have advanced to Day 6 of the Main Event. One of them, however, won't be able to sit at his table when play commences at noon PT on Sunday. Read more »
A significantly larger field packed the Amazon Room and several surrounding rooms for Day 2b of the Main Event than Day 2a. The reason being the number difference between Days 1a/1b and 1c/1d. Read more »
1,250 players returned to the Rio for the first of two "Day 2s". Day 2A, which kicked off yesterday and, by the end of the evening, only 466 players remained. The survivors of Day 1A and Day 1B convened at 12pm PST led by Day 1A chip leader Mark Garner with 194,900 and Day 1B chip leader Ben Sarnoff with 177,500. The players all easily fit into the confines of the Amazon Room and when the day was done they did not even completely fill one of the four 50-table quadrants. Read more »
Over 40 hours of poker were played before Day 1 of the World Series of Poker officially came to a close. When all was said and done 6,844 players registered to play in this year's Main Event. While it does not exceed the record set in 2006, it does beat last year's field of 6,358. Players were crammed in every corner of the Rio in order to accommodate what was the largest of the Day 1 fields. Over 2,000 players filled up three rooms in the Rio Convention Center, tables set up in front of the Buzios seafood restaurant, and even ten tables in the Rio Poker Room, which is a good 15 minute walk away from the Amazon Room. Read more »
