July 5, 2015
After almost two months and 67 events, the Main Event of most prestigious live poker tournament on the planet, the World Series of Poker, is set to kick off on Sunday July 5 in Las Vegas. Ten days have been set aside for the event, number 68 on the WSOP schedule, which is expected to […]
July 4, 2015
Continuing the best traditions of talented young German players, 24-year-old Leipzig student and part time player Paul Hofer bested a field of 4,554 other players to win the $1,111 buy-in Little One for Big Drop event at the World Series of Poker Friday night. It was his first World Series visit, yet he had already […]
July 3, 2015
Alex Lindop, a 25-year-old professional player from Stoke-on-Trent, has claimed the UK’s second bracelet in this year’s World Series of Poker, besting a talented field of 2,154 other players and claiming the $531,037 winner’s share of the $2.9 million prize pool. Making a return to WSOP nine years after he won the 2006 Main Event […]
July 3, 2015
Thanks to legalisation and the presence in Nevada of licensed and regulated online poker websites, this week has seen the start of the first ever World Series of Poker internet competition, with the winner qualifying for a WSOP winner’s bracelet. In a way, it represents a coming of age development for online poker, and one […]
July 2, 2015
Boston lawyer-turned eight-year professional poker player, Anthony Zinno (33) continued his impressive red hot run of successes at the World Series of Poker Wednesday with a storming win in Event 60 – a $25,000 buy-in High Roller Pot Limit Omaha competition contested by a slew of top players. It was Zinno’s fifth cash – all […]
July 2, 2015
Takahiro Nakai, a 36-year-old hi-tech specialist and amateur poker fan from Osaka, Japan has achieved his first World Series of Poker bracelet on his first WSOP final table on his first visit to Las Vegas to play in the prestigious international poker tournament. Nakai plays mainly on the internet, where he has honed his poker […]
June 30, 2015
2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel (27) has won another multi-million dollar poker tournament, besting the creme de la creme of international poker players in the $111,111 buy-in One Drop High Roller – event 58 at the 2015 World Series of Poker. Highly skilled and motivated professionals like Phil Hellmuth (who […]
June 30, 2015
The inaugural $1,500 buy-in DraftKings 50/50 NLHE competition (event 55 on the World Series of Poker schedule) has ended appropriately with a win for Las Vegas-based professional sports gambler Brandon Wittmeyer (31). Sponsored by the market leading DraftKings daily fantasy sports provider, the event was unusual in that it enabled fifty percent of entrants to […]
June 29, 2015
31-year-old Danish online poker pro Alexander Petersen topped a field of 387 to win his first World Series Of Poker gold bracelet, a hefty $927655 pay check and the 2015 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship Title. Petersen bested Jason Mercier in heads-up play reversing a seemingly dire starting 3-1 chip count. This marks Petersen’s first […]
June 28, 2015
Few visitors to this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas will have failed to notice the high profile presence of one of the top sponsors, the daily fantasy sports provider DraftKings. That makes a lot of business sense, given the long-known cross-over interest between poker and sports betting, although the DFS industry will […]