July 12, 2015
There’s just one former World Series of Poker Main Event champion left in this year’s main event race and that’s Jim Bechtel, who won his spurs in the 1993 tournament. Both Ryan Riess and Joe Hachem were busted at 426th and 298th respectively, whilst Phil Hellmuth was eliminated at 417th by his friend Daniel Negreanu […]
July 11, 2015
The survivors of all the starter flights in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event combined Friday for the first time, with 1,796 starters, a field diluted to 1,051 by the dinner break in some frenetic action as the 1,000 player money bubble approached. When it broke, ensuring that going forward every player earns […]
July 10, 2015
Day 2C at the World Series of Poker is in the books, with more previous champions falling but many formidable players still in contention. Former champions Jamie Gold, Robert Varkonye, Huck Seed and Peter Eastgate are all out of the competition as the starting field of 2,765 was whittled down to just 1,770 going forward […]
July 9, 2015
The official World Series of Poker numbers are in, revealing that 654 players survived the 1,624-player field that started Day 2A play Wednesday. Massachusetts player Amar Anand was holding the biggest stack at 603,500 when the chips were bagged; his nearest challenger, Calvin Lee has 500,700 chips. The names of more high visibility players who […]
July 9, 2015
The 1,624 survivors from starting days 1A and 1B are currently playing at the Rio in Las Vegas. At the start of the Day 2 action Wednesday William Kakon and Hamid Feiz led their fields respectively with stacks of 152,325 and 182,675 (see previous reports). The action was still raging when we went to press […]
July 8, 2015
Many of poker’s biggest names were among the crowds that stood in line to register for Day 1C – the last entry day – of the World Series of Poker Main Event. It turned out to be a record Day 1C at 3,963 players, among them a large contingent of top international players, former WSOP […]
July 7, 2015
Connor Berkowitz, a 25-year-old online poker professional who plays under the handles connisaurusrex and nyr9414, has won the inaugural Event 66: $777 buy-in Lucky Sevens No Limit Hold’em, the last of the preliminary World Series of Poker tournaments to produce a result Monday. The 4 day event attracted 4,422 entries, creating a prize pool of […]
July 6, 2015
The results of the last of the preliminary tournaments leading up to the Main Event are now awaited at the World Series of Poker as 10 players from an original field of 4,422 continue to fight it out in the $777 buy-in Lucky Sevens NLHE contest – number 66 on the WSOP schedule – after […]
July 6, 2015
The attention swerved again this weekend from the World Series of Poker at the Rio to the Aria, where US poker pro Brian Rast took down the spectacular first $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl. With 43 players registered, the event carried a massive $21.5 million prize pool, ensuring that most of the final table […]
July 5, 2015
The 2015 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has entered the last stretch in the run up to the Main Event, with two bracelet competitions finishing over the weekend, both new inclusions on the schedule this year. The WSOP.com semi-online event was played at six-man live table in Las Vegas, and a New Jersey […]