Missouri poker pro wins last of the prelims at WSOP

July 7, 2014

Missouri poker pro and primarily cash game player Pat Walsh enjoyed a profitable weekend after claiming his first winner’s bracelet and the $923,379 first prize in event 64 of the 2014 World Series of Poker, an excellent return for his $10,000 buy-in for the Pot Limit Omaha competition. The event, which lasted for 29 one […]

Amateur player wins Event 60 at WSOP

July 6, 2014

Another maiden World Series of Poker bracelet was won at the Rio in Las Vegas over the weekend when Florida IT business owner Salman Jaddi took down event 60 – the last of the $1,500 buy-in NLHE competitions this year – after a long drawn out heads up against Brandon Hall. Jaddi’s reward for besting […]

WSOP gold at last for poker pro

July 5, 2014

Despite his 3.3 million in career earnings and long list of victories at the poker table, New York poker pro Bryn Kenney had yet to add a World Series of Poker bracelet to his awards cabinet, but he did it in style Friday night, crushing an impressive final table from start to finish and winning […]

WSOP Circuit ace claims his first bracelet

July 3, 2014

Texas grinder and World Series of Poker Circuit ace Phillip Hui has realised one of his big ambitions – winning his first WSOP bracelet – by taking down event 59, a $3,000 buy-in Omaha Eight-Or-Better competition after besting a field of 456 other players. Remarkably, at one stage in the heads up, Hui was at […]

Brooklyn pro wins first gold at WSOP

July 3, 2014

Event 58 at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has been won by veteran poker pro Jared Jaffee (33), a long-time professional grinder from Brooklyn in New York. In the biggest win of his career (his previous best included several $250,000+ wins at major tourneys) Jaffee claimed his first WSOP bracelet and $405,428 […]

Gold for Minnesota online poker ace

July 2, 2014

Minnesota online poker grinder Mike Kachan put his experience in long hours of internet poker action to good use in event 56 of the World Series of Poker, playing into the early hours of Wednesday morning to capture his first gold WSOP bracelet and $403,483 in the $1,000 buy-in NLHE event. The event’s relatively low […]

Biggest win yet for San Diego poker pro

June 29, 2014

San Diego poker pro David Miscikowski capped a substantial online and live tournament career over the weekend with his first World Series of Poker bracelet and his biggest pay-day yet – $719,707. Miscikowski’s previous best score was $13,400 in a 2012 WPT event, although he has managed to cash eleven times in WSOP events previously. […]

Top poker pro claims his tenth WSOP bracelet

June 28, 2014

Congratulations to one of the world’s most skilled poker players, Phil Ivey, who on Friday night earned his tenth World Series of Poker bracelet, placing him in the august company of legends Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, and edging him closer to all-time record bracelet holder Phil Hellmuth. Ivey achieved his latest honour playing heads […]

Million dollar poker win for Hennigan

June 27, 2014

Thursday was a memorable day for US poker pro John Hennigan for a number of reasons, thanks to event 46 at the World Series of Poker – the $50,000 buy-in prestigious Players’ Championship: he bested a 101-strong field that included many of the most notable names in global poker; he was awarded the Chip Reese […]

Clements denied third WSPO bracelet

June 27, 2014

Tyler Patterson has scored eighteen World Series of Poker cashes, and made it to three final tables in poker’s biggest tournament, but never cracked a winner’s bracelet…until Thursday night. The 31-year-old Washington state pro managed to survive a field of 990 other poker fans eager for a share of the $1,337,850 prize pool in event […]