October 11, 2016
28-Year-old Tennessee poker pro Robert “Skinny” Hankins became the ninth player in World Series of Poker history to win six WSOP rings when he took down the Main Event title at HorseShoe Southern Indiana. Hankins pocketed $146,520, bringing his life-time career earnings to over $560,000. Top nine final table results were: Robert Hankins $142,560 Hank […]
September 24, 2016
Four years ago the poker world watched as Jesse Sylvia and Greg Merson fought it out in the heads up of the World Series of Poker main event (see previous report), with Sylvia narrowly defeated but taking home a second placing pay check for $5,292,889. Since then the poker pro has enjoyed a few more […]
August 18, 2016
The 2016/17 World Series of Poker Circuit’s (WSOP) first Main Event was won by Michigan poker pro Steven Snyder earlier this week. Winning the event at Harrah’s Cherokee, Snyder became the first official entrant into the 2017 WSOP Global Casino Championship and took home a healthy $241,198 pay check and a WSOP Circuit gold ring. […]
July 19, 2016
With a guaranteed pay-out of at least a million, the final table of the World Series of Poker is an alluring achievement, and as we went to press Tuesday morning the composition of the final table had just been decided. The 27 players who started Day 7 were led by Czech Republic pro Vojtech Ruzicka […]
July 19, 2016
Tuesday should see the formation of the final table at this year’s World Series of Poker as the 27 survivors from Day 6 reconvene to play down to the last nine, who will then go on a break until November, each with a million dollars. When they return to play to a winner in November, […]
July 19, 2016
The 47th edition of the World Series of Poker has created new records over its seven-week run and 69 tournaments, which are now drawing to a close as the main event nears its final table. The organisers have released some impressive statistics that include: * 107,833 entries (up 4.2 percent), just the second time the […]
July 17, 2016
Day 5 at the World Series of Poker main event saw just 251 survivors from the 800 who started Day 4, and the 6,737 who enrolled in the event. Chip leaders for Day 5 were Bryan Piccioli (4,026,000), Daniel Colman 3,711,000 and Thomas Miller (3,684,000), but Piccioli was among those who did not survive the […]
July 13, 2016
US online and live tourney professional player Clayton Maguire (47) has emerged from a field of 1,247 as the winner in the innovative mixed online and live No Limit Hold’em competition at the World Series of Poker. The online element in the event led to a final live table at the Rio in which Macguire […]
July 12, 2016
When former World Series of Poker main event champion Joe McKeehen gave the “shuffle up and deal” call Monday for the final entry day in this year’s main event it was the starting signal for 4,240 players and a new record for a third day start. Added to the 2,497 players who started playing in […]
July 12, 2016
888Poker’s partnership with the World Series of Poker this year resulted in the European online poker provider sending 250 players from 35 nations to Las Vegas for the world’s most prestigious tournament. 148 of these won seats in the main event currently running its course at the Rio, whilst the rest played in the inaugural […]