January 22, 2015
The World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw wrapped up this week with the final ring event held at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Okla. The 12-day festival culminated in the $1,675 Main event which drew a field of 1 363 entries and delivered an impressive prize pool of $2,044,500. Jose Montes, based in New York, […]
January 10, 2015
Caesars Interactive Entertainment has announced that from next week the WSOP.com and 888Poker.com online poker sites will share a common player pool, which should see better rewards for players. A Caesars spokesman told the Associated Press news agency that the player sharing initiative is designed to increase player liquidity, a key area if New Jersey’s […]
December 23, 2014
The 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) will run from May 27 to July 14 at Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in 2015. The jammed schedule includes gold bracelet events, satellites, cash games and thrice daily deep stack tournaments running for 49 consecutive days, with the WSOP Main Event reaching its final nine […]
December 23, 2014
Veteran poker ace Mukul Pahuja delivered an impressive display of poker skill and talent Monday to take down the last of this year’s World Series of Poker Circuit events at Harrahs Atlantic City. The $1,675 buy-in Main Event pulled in 460 entries to generate a prize pool worth $690,000, which was fiercely contested over a […]
December 10, 2014
Cincinnati poker professional Jake Bazeley took down the WSOP Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event this week, his first WSOP-related victory. The 31-year-old earned earned $239 096, a Circuit gold ring and a seat in the season-ending National Championship. Play moved quickly in the third and final day of play with the field narrowing from 12 to […]
November 15, 2014
World Series of Poker main event runner-up this year, Felix Stephensen, will see only half of his $5,147,911 (around 35 million Norwegian kronor) winnings once the Norwegian taxman has finished with him. Although Stephensen has lived in London for the past two-and-a-half years he remains a Norwegian and is subject to Norwegian taxes at just […]
November 13, 2014
In an interesting footnote to this year’s World Series of Poker main event finale (see previous reports), media reports have acknowledged the key role played by technical support teams deployed by at least one of the three top finalists, winner Martin Jacobson and runners up Felix Stephsen and Jorryt Van Hoof. In Van Hoof’s case […]
November 12, 2014
Less than two hours into the second day’s play in the World Series of Poker main event final table, Dutch player Jorryt Van Hoof has suffered a remarkable reversal of fortunes and was the short stack at three-handed play stage when we went to press this morning. The tall Dutchman started the final day of […]
November 12, 2014
A European player will emerge the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, as the table whittled down to three, Tuesday. The final three players still in contention comprise Dutch poker pro Jorryt van Hoof, Martin Jacobson from Sweden and Norwegian Felix Stephenson. van Hoof, who will become the first Dutch world poker champion […]
November 11, 2014
Dutch poker pro Jorryt Van Hoof entered this year’s World Series of Poker final table as the chip leader, and has a track record that should attract the most demanding sponsor, yet spectators have wondered about the absence of sponsorship patches on his clothing. Fellow countryman and poker journalist Remko Rinkema explained why in an […]