July 5, 2018
The second starting flight for this year’s World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event attracted 2,378 entries Wednesday, but only 1,801 survived to go further in the competition when the survivors of all three starting days combine. The second starting day field this year was up 10 percent on 2017, and combined with […]
July 4, 2018
Arizona cash game grinder Dan Matsuzuki (28) made an impulsive decision urged on by a friend to enter the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud Hi Lo championship event, and it paid handsome dividends. Matsuzuki bested a field of 141 to claim his first World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet and the […]
July 4, 2018
Online and live poker pro Phil Galfond (33) has claimed his third World Series of Poker bracelet and prize money of $567,788 after winning the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. It was a remarkable achievement, given that Galfond has been too busy preparing his new Run It Once Poker online business to […]
July 3, 2018
The first of three starting days for the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off in Las Vegas Monday with 925 hopefuls registering – up from last year’s 795 Day 1A entries. The start comes at the end of a month of WSOP tournaments that has so far seen over 60 gold […]
July 2, 2018
Phill Galfond has added a third WSOP bracelet to his trophy case having outlasted 237 players and winning Event 60: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament. Galfond (33) outplayed Michael McKenna heads-up for the title, bracelet and top prize of $567,788, his twentieth WSOP career cash taking his total earnings to around 2.8 […]
July 2, 2018
One of the frustrations in Las Vegas poker pro Jean-Robert Bellande’s otherwise successful career has been his inability to corral a World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet, but he finally managed to lift that monkey off his back over the weekend with a win in the $5,000 buy-in NLHE Six-Handed event. In addition to finally […]
July 1, 2018
Las Vegas poker pro and coach Chance ‘Bingshui” Kornuth achieved the rare distinction of becoming both a live tournament and online World Series of Poker bracelet holder early Sunday morning when he took down the $3,200 buy-in WSOP.com Online High Roller event, besting a field of 356 with 124 re-buys to claim his second WSOP […]
July 1, 2018
Over five hours of intense heads up action in the four day $10,000 buy-in Razz Championship concluded Sunday at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas with Oklahoma poker pro Calvin Anderson claiming his second winner’s bracelet and the first prize of $309,220. The competition recorded 119 entries, creating a prize pool worth $1,118,600. […]
June 30, 2018
The World Series of Poker $1,000 buy-in NLHE Online Championship event over the weekend turned out to be something of an endurance test, running for over 15 hours with a four-hour final table and a two-hour heads up. The event pulled in 1,635 entries (1,180 unique players and 455 re-entries) generating a prize pool worth […]
June 30, 2018
Portuguese poker pro Diogo Veiga is enjoying a good run at the poker tournament tables this year with two big six-figure cashes in the past three months. Back in April he took home Euro 555,000 after a sixth placing in the PartyPoker Millions Barcelona Grand Final, and on Friday he claimed the Euro 522,715 main […]