July 11, 2018
The World Series of Poker Main Event Day 6 survivors have bagged up their chips for the night after the field was reduced from 109 to just 26 Tuesday night. The next player to be eliminated will earn $282,630 from the massive $74,015,600 prize pool, and Day 7 should see the formation of the final […]
July 10, 2018
Day 5 of the World Series of Poker Main Event was shortened following a major storm over Las Vegas which caused lighting and other technical hassles at the Rio around a half hour before play was scheduled to end Monday. The field at the start of the day had numbered 310, but when the chips […]
July 9, 2018
The World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event Day 4 has concluded with under 5 percent of the original field of 7,784 players still in contention…and Phil Ivey was among the big names to fall during a day that saw the field whittled down to just 310 players. After 13 hours of poker […]
July 9, 2018
Las Vegas real estate manager Longsheng Tan (34) boosted his half-million dollars in poker career earnings over the weekend in taking down the World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in NLHE event following four days of intense competition. Tan dominated much of the play in the closing days and especially at the final table, where at […]
July 8, 2018
2,786 players started the first day of combined starter fields in the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event Saturday, concluding early Sunday morning when the money bubble was reached on the elimination of the 1,183rd player. Matthew Hopkins was busted out by Bryce McVay, and from now on players are assured of […]
July 7, 2018
The World Series of Poker Main Event competition continued Friday when the 3,480 survivors of the record third starting flight battled for a position in the combined field Saturday. At the end of the 10-hour day Californian fruit farmer Ignacio Sanchez led the 1,668 players still active, holding the lead with 627,200 in chips, with […]
July 6, 2018
The first day of combined field action in the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event has concluded with just half the starting field of 2,460 (made up of the survivors of the three starting flights of the competition) surviving. 1,131 players now move on to the next day’s action, led by California […]
July 6, 2018
This year’s four online events at the World Series of Poker show that there is wide appeal for this type of event, attracting worthwhile entry lists and general interest. The recent evolution of shared state player pools in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware have boosted that appeal, as is apparent from the wider participation and […]
July 6, 2018
Belgian hedge fund manager and poker ace Galen Hall (33) is $888,888 wealthier this morning after his profitable victory in the World Series of Poker $888 buy-in Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed event. The big win brings his career live tourney earnings to over $5 million, and adds a maiden WSOP bracelet to his achievements. […]
July 5, 2018
The World Series of Poker organisers anticipated a large field for the third starting flight in this year’s $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event and they were not disappointed; 4,571 players, many of them respected names in the game, turned up for the last starting day, with the shuffle up and deal call made by the […]