July 12, 2017
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has donated one of two “unawarded” WSOP bracelets from the inaugural $10,000 Tag Team Championship event to Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a non-profit charity co-founded by poker pro’s Igor Kurganov and Liv Boeree. Kurganov and Boeree won WSOP 2017 Event #2, but having only two tag-team members left […]
July 11, 2017
Mike Wattel has taken down the 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event 72, $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship, to earn his second career WSOP gold bracelet and a $245,451 pay check. A loaded final table saw seven of the eight players previous bracelet winners but ultimately it was Wattel who emerged victorious from six-hour heads […]
July 1, 2017
US poker pro Tom Koral has finally accomplished a long-time goal…securing a World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet after 13 years of attending the Las Vegas poker festival, during which he has made 53 cashes and appeared on five final tables. “I’ve been coming here since 2005, so 13 years I’ve played in the World […]
June 11, 2017
33-year-old cash game pro, Anthony Marquez, has emerged victorious in Event 16, the $1,500 Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em. This is only Marquez’ second WSOP cash and his first WSOP bracelet and were well earned after he defeated a huge 1,708-player field to win $393,273 after defeating Demoesthenes Kiriopoulos heads-up. On his focus from cash games to […]
July 11, 2016
Veteran online and live tournament grinder Kyle Bowker (33) from New York has secured his first World Series of Poker bracelet at last after more than 200 entries in WSOP events over the years….and the first prize of $294,960 in the $3,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Eight of Better tourney made the achievement that much […]
July 7, 2016
With just ten events left in this year’s World Series of Poker series, three more maiden winner’s bracelets have been won by professional players in their twenties. David Peters (29) has a long list of live tournament and online high stakes accomplishments on his cv and over $12 million in career earnings, yet a WSOP […]
July 4, 2016
Online and live tournament poker pro Andrew “Lucky Chewy” Lichtenberger (28) from New York has the respect of most of his peers and has been successful in many tough competitions since 2009, but the monkey on his back has always been his inability to secure a World Series of Poker bracelet despite cashing on 33 […]
July 3, 2016
Chicago poker pro Brandon Shack-Harris (38) claimed his second World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet and the impressive top prize of $894,300 over the weekend when he took down the $10,000 buy-in 8-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha Championship at the Rio in Las Vegas. Post-match he acknowledged that it had been one of the toughest in his […]
July 1, 2016
33-year-old New York professional player Shaun Deeb, one of the many notable names at this year’s World Series of Poker, has boosted his $1.5 million in live tourney career earnings with a $111,101 victory – and his second WSOP bracelet – in the $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud competition. Good cards and consummate skill and […]
July 1, 2016
This weekend’s celebration of Canada’s national day will be more memorable than usual for Canadian online and live tourney player Kristen Bicknell (29)…she became this series’ first woman event winner after taking on a star-studded field of 2,158 in the $1,500 buy-in Bounty event. In addition to the prestigious bracelet – her second – Bicknell […]