May 18, 2017
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Domestic Schedule has been released for the 2017-18 season featuring three additional stops for a record twenty-six tournaments. All twenty-six tour stops are linked by a points system tied to the WSOP gold-bracelet awarding, $1,000,000+ prize pool Global Casino Championship. Each stop will offer a dozen official gold ring […]
May 15, 2017
A World Series of Poker (WSOP) advisory notes significant changes to the annual WSOP tournament format following new global television and digital media rights contracts agreed with ESPN and Poker Central. Expanded programming will include live event coverage and original episodes throughout the year, the organisation said, and for the first time same-day coverage on […]
April 28, 2017
The entire WSOP.com – Nevada online poker offering this year is themed around a good old-fashioned rock and roll festival, the organisers have announced in a press statement. WSOP.com Nevada celebrates its fourth year running parallel to the World Series of Poker; participants this summer are competing for more than $2.5 million in guarantees and […]
April 25, 2017
North Carolina nail technician, Vanessa Truong, outplayed a field of 1,164 in the World Series of Poker Harrah’s Cherokee Circuit $1,675 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, to win $318,646 and her first WSOP gold ring. Truong went into heads play with Daniel Pearlman having knocked out six, of the eight, players at the final table. She […]
April 20, 2017
One of the World Series of Poker main event final tablers last year, Czech pro Vojtech Ruzicka has claimed the honours and a GBP 284,210 first prize in the GBP 10,300 buy-in Dusk Til Dawn High Roller in Nottingham, England. 110 entries were recorded for the contest, which culminated in an epic heads up in […]
April 11, 2017
West Palm Beach poker pro, Maurice Hawkins, won the 2017 Horseshoe Council Bluffs Main Event for $97,561 but more notably took home his record-breaking 10th career WSOP Circuit gold ring. Six of Hawkins’ rings have been won in the past two seasons on the circuit and he now tops the all-time gold rings leaderboard, overtaking […]
April 10, 2017
888Poker has developed a high profile magnet to get online poker fans into its satellite qualifiers for the next World Series of Poker…the company has put up the difference between the main event top prize and $10 million dollars as an add-on booster if it is won by a 888Poker satellite qualifier. 888 has dubbed […]
April 7, 2017
888poker has guaranteed a $10 million payout to the 888poker qualifier that wins the 2017 WSOP Main Event as part of its “Supersize ME” promotion. 888Poker will top up the regular WSOP winning payout to $10 million if the winner qualified through 888poker’s steps satellites for $0.01 or buy in directly to one of the […]
March 28, 2017
Will Berry won the World Series of Poker Circuit main event at the Hard Rock Tulsa, earning $180,806 and the WSOP gold ring which has eluded him twice before at consecutive circuit events held in his home state. Berry won the title after besting Dan Lowery in heads up play at his third consecutive Oklahoma […]
March 8, 2017
The first World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) to be held in Rozvadov, Czech Republic will kick off October 19 and run to November 10, 2017 at Leon Tsoukernik’s King’s Casino, Rozvadov offering an 11-bracelet event tournament schedule. The series will officially conclude on Friday, November 10, 2017 with the final table of the Euro […]