July 13, 2017
The Day 1 and 2 entry fields of this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event have almost run their course, and excitement is now building for Day 3, when the survivors of the original 7,221 entrants gather for the first time to play down to the eventual winner. Many former main event winners registered […]
July 12, 2017
The World Series of Poker organisers have released official figures for the total number of entries for this year’s $10,000 buy-in Main Event, noting that at 7,221 players it is the third largest achieved in the 48-year history of poker’s most prestigious competition. Every big name in poker, and thousands of enthusiastic amateur players, appear […]
July 11, 2017
A Las Vegas poker shift manager has outplayed a field of 10,015 to claim the 2017 WSOP Event 19, The Giant – $365 No-Limit Hold’em for a $291,240 payday and his first WSOP bracelet. 56-year-old Dieter Dechant ticked winning a WSOP bracelet off his bucket list after defeating Hrair Yapoudjian in heads-up play where he […]
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 11, 2017
It’s starting to look as if this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event will be the most popular in years; total entries from only the first two starting flights stands at 2,959 after Day 1 B official figures were released, showing that 2,164 entries – the highest in the last six years – had […]
July 10, 2017
Four-year Australian poker pro Heidi May (27) has clinched by far her biggest win yet – and her first WSOP bracelet – following victory in the $10,000 buy-in Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship, claiming the main prize of $135,098 May, who hails from Tasmania, mainly plays online tournaments and high stakes cash games, but is becoming […]
July 9, 2017
US poker pro scores his first WSOP bracelet and $1,289,074 in $25,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed High Roller. Congenial Florida poker pro James Calderaro (51) scored his biggest ever pay-day over the weekend, claiming his first WSOP bracelet and $1,289,074 in the $25,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed High Roller. A popular WSOP veteran, Calderaro bested […]
July 9, 2017
The World Series of Poker has announced a new partnership agreement with Chinese e-commerce, mobile gaming and social media giant Tencent which will help to expand awareness of poker in Asia. Tencent Poker is already the top play-for-fun social poker app in China, and the WSOP brand will receive exposure on this vehicle as part […]
July 9, 2017
It’s been a brisk weekend in Las Vegas, where the last few scheduled events in the enlarged program (73 events this year) were coming to a close as Day 1 entries for the Main Event topped 795 players – an increase on the corresponding entries last year of 764, and the largest Day 1 field […]
July 8, 2017
UK online and live poker pro Elior Sion (26) has scored his biggest win yet – $1,395,767 – taking down the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. To do so, the quiet-spoken Brit had to best a stellar field of 100 that included top international players like […]