June 10, 2015
Arizona poker professional Matt Elsby (38) bested a field of 319 players in the $3000 buy-in Six Handed Limit Hold’em Event 19, winning his first career WSOP gold bracelet and $230799. Elsby defeated French pro Gabriel Nassif who has been a fixture at the WSOP each year since 2005, but his first gold bracelet remains […]
June 10, 2015
With 7,275 entrants and a prize pool worth $9,821,250, the $1,500 buy-in Millionaire Maker competition attracted huge interest at this year’s World Series of Poker, and five days on it has produced a winner. 27-year-old Lockheed Martin electrical engineer Adrian Buckley from Dacono, Colorado will be taking home his first WSOP bracelet and the winner’s […]
June 10, 2015
With allegations of cheating via mysteriously marked cards still reverberating around the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas last week (see previous reports on Moldova player Valeriu Coca), security officials may want to follow up on a Poker News story about a Dutch supplier of questionable technology. The publication reported Tuesday that an […]
June 9, 2015
The high profile poker pro from California, Phil Hellmuth (50) proved to a packed rail that he still has it in spades early Tuesday morning Vegas time when he eliminated his last opponent to claim victory and his 14th World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet in event 17 – the $10,000 buy-in Razz Championship. That […]
June 9, 2015
After a three-year hiatus forced upon him by open heart surgery and a still-problematic brain tumour, Brit World Series of Poker veteran John Gale (61) returned triumphantly to the Las Vegas tournament this year by winning event 18 – the $1,500 buy-in NLHE Turbo competition – over a fast-paced two days of blistering action. In […]
June 7, 2015
Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s best professional poker players without a World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet, Shaun Deeb shrugged that monkey off his back this weekend by winning the $10,000 buy-in Pot Limit Hold’em Championship event in Las Vegas. The 29-year-old professional player bested a star-studded entry field of 127 other players […]
June 7, 2015
Russian chess grand master Konstantin Maslak (30) became interested in poker just six years ago but already has a string of cashes to his credit, the latest in event 13 of the World Series of Poker, a $2,500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud eight-or-better tournament. A stellar collection of top international poker professionals among the 474-strong […]
June 6, 2015
Idan Raviv, a 24-year-old IT manager from Holon in Israel, is the latest World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner after claiming the $457,007 first prize in event 12, a $1,500 buy-in NLHE Six Handed competition that pulled in 1,651 entrants – 64 more than the same event in 2014. The multi-national final table lasted […]
June 5, 2015
Highly successful Miami businessman, broker and realtor William Kakon (38) loves competing and poker, and makes Las Vegas and the World Series of Poker a regular annual holiday stop to get a little of both every year. This year he achieved a major ambition to secure his first WSOP winner’s bracelet, at the same time […]