July 11, 2016
22-year-old German online and live poker pro Fedor Holz, who says that this is his final World Series of Poker, is going out in style with a win in Event 67, the $111,111 buy-in High Roller for One Drop No-Limit Hold’em competition, that has boosted his bank balance by $4,981,775 and, incredibly for such a […]
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 11, 2016
The popular ladies event at the World Series of Poker this weekend attracted a field of 819 that included some tough competition in the forms of Amanda Musumeci, Wendy Freedman, Amanda Baker, Michelle Deng and Yaxi Zhu, but it was Detroit poker dealer Courtney Kennedy (37) who took the honours and the $149,108 main prize […]
July 11, 2016
The $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker NLHE main event kicked off over the weekend in the Amazon Room at the Rio, with the tables packed with players from all over the world – many of them top professionals. Starting the ball rolling, tournament director Jack Eiffel welcomed competitors, saying: “I wish all of you […]
July 10, 2016
High stakes online poker professional Jens “Jeans89” Kyllönen (26) showed once again that he is hard to beat at Pot Limit Omaha – live or online – when he was victorious in the World Series of Poker $25,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha championship event over the weekend. The blonde Finnish player bested a talented field […]
July 9, 2016
Amateur players David Prociak and Yue Du proved once again this week that the World Series of Poker is not necessarily the domain of the professional aces, taking down two important events for their first bracelets and substantial amounts of prize money. In the three-day $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split tournament Florida small business […]
July 7, 2016
US poker pro Brian Rast (34) has added another victory to his already glittering professional poker career, earning his third World Series of Poker bracelet and $1,296,097 main prize after taking down the prestigious $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship Eight Game Mixed event. In doing so he became only the second player to win the […]
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 5, 2016
The fourth of July will be memorable for Vietnamese immigrant Hung Le as not only America’s Independence Day, but his own in financial terms after winning $888,888 in the $888 buy-in No Limit Holden “Crazy Eights” event at the World Series of Poker. Now living in Dayton, Ohio the 53-year-old has a wife and five […]
July 4, 2016
Allan Le (30) lived up to and surpassed the proud records of his poker-playing relatives Tommy and Nam Le over the weekend, taking the honours and earning his first bracelet in the new World Series of Poker schedule addition, the $1,500 buy-in Omaha Eight-or-Better Mixed competition. The California poker pro has 30 WSOP cashes and […]