June 5, 2015
51-year-old Louisiana poker pro Keith Lehr had to wait twelve years for his second World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet, but he managed it Thursday when he bested 142 other competitors to take down the $10,000 buy-in Heads Up NLHE Championship event in Las Vegas to claim the $334,430 main prize. It was no mean […]
June 5, 2015
At least five professional players in this year’s World Series of Poker currently taking place in Las Vegas have voiced so far unsubstantiated suspicions of cheating by Moldovan player Valeriu Coca following the conclusion of the $10,000 Heads-Up Championship event. Coca finished fifth in the competition, earning $54,545. He bested Matt Marafioti, Pratyush Buddiga, Aaron […]
June 4, 2015
Paul Michaels (24), a young Austrian playing on his first World Series of Poker final table Wednesday, scored his first WSOP winner’;s bracelet after a hard-fought duel with veteran ace Tom Marchese. The two were part of a field of 639 entries in event 8 – the $1,500 buy-in Pot Limit Hold’em competition – with […]
June 4, 2015
Las Vegas poker pro Max Pescatori (44) has just won his third World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet on his tenth WSOP final table, triumphing in event 9 – the $1,500 Razz championship – to claim the $155,947 first prize, bringing his career earnings within shouting distance of $2 million. It was “The Italian Pirate’s” […]
June 4, 2015
It’s taken six days of hard, take-no-prisoners poker to whittle a record field of 22,374 entries in the $565 buy-in Colossus event at the World Series of Poker down to just one man, and on Wednesday that man was 25-year-old Houston, Texas grinder Cord Garcia. At $638,880 the pay day – and his maiden winner’s […]
June 3, 2015
Los Angeles professional player Tuan Le (37) has done it again; for the second year running he has taken down the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball championship in Las Vegas, besting a field of 109 players to claim his second WSOP winner’s bracelet and prize money of $322,756. In defending […]
June 2, 2015
The World Series of Poker experiment with the Hyper Hold’em format of fast-action poker appears to have gone down well with the 1,436 players who entered Event 6, which was done and dusted in just 2 days with Minnesota’s John Reading (26) earning the fastest $252,068 he’s likely to see in a while. The twenty […]
June 1, 2015
US poker pro Robert Mizrachi has two reasons to smile after taking down World Series of Poker event 3; the $255,022 prize, and his third WSOP winner’s bracelet that puts him on the same footing as his brother Michael. The $1,500 buy-in Omaha Hi-Lo event attracted a field of 918 players, many of them well […]
June 1, 2015
The World Series of Poker can claim a player registration record for a single live tournament event following the final entry figures for the $565 buy-in Colossus NLHE event over the weekend, which reached 22,374, but the way in which the massive $11,187,000 prize pool will be distributed has caused dissent. A growing number of […]
May 31, 2015
Following the global financial meltdown back in 2008, fresh economics graduate Nick Petrangelo (28) battled to find a job in 2010, and started playing poker professionally to keep the wolf from the door. That decision has panned out well for the Massachusetts pro, who has since won over a million dollars in prizes, most recently […]