July 7, 2014
771 players – a lower turnout than last year – turned out for the Day 1a, the first of three entry flights for the $10,000 buy-in 2014 World Series of Poker main event, which concluded over the weekend with retired chef and Swedish pro Martin Jacobson in the lead on 200,100 chips, more than 40,000 […]
July 7, 2014
Missouri poker pro and primarily cash game player Pat Walsh enjoyed a profitable weekend after claiming his first winner’s bracelet and the $923,379 first prize in event 64 of the 2014 World Series of Poker, an excellent return for his $10,000 buy-in for the Pot Limit Omaha competition. The event, which lasted for 29 one […]
July 6, 2014
The first of three starting days for the main event at the World Series of Poker is traditionally a smaller field, especially this year following Independence Day celebrations in the States, but 771 players anted up the $10,000 buy-in Saturday to get the prestigious competition started. The field included a host of notable names that […]
July 6, 2014
Another maiden World Series of Poker bracelet was won at the Rio in Las Vegas over the weekend when Florida IT business owner Salman Jaddi took down event 60 – the last of the $1,500 buy-in NLHE competitions this year – after a long drawn out heads up against Brandon Hall. Jaddi’s reward for besting […]
July 5, 2014
Despite his 3.3 million in career earnings and long list of victories at the poker table, New York poker pro Bryn Kenney had yet to add a World Series of Poker bracelet to his awards cabinet, but he did it in style Friday night, crushing an impressive final table from start to finish and winning […]
July 4, 2014
Chicago poker pro Matt Grapentheim triumphed Thursday night in a 4-hour heads up against Todd Brunson to claim his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the main prize of $268,473 in event 61, a $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud championship competition. The result was another bitter disappointment for 13-bracelet Phil Hellmuth, who’s hopes of […]
July 3, 2014
Texas grinder and World Series of Poker Circuit ace Phillip Hui has realised one of his big ambitions – winning his first WSOP bracelet – by taking down event 59, a $3,000 buy-in Omaha Eight-Or-Better competition after besting a field of 456 other players. Remarkably, at one stage in the heads up, Hui was at […]
July 3, 2014
Event 58 at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has been won by veteran poker pro Jared Jaffee (33), a long-time professional grinder from Brooklyn in New York. In the biggest win of his career (his previous best included several $250,000+ wins at major tourneys) Jaffee claimed his first WSOP bracelet and $405,428 […]
July 2, 2014
Minnesota online poker grinder Mike Kachan put his experience in long hours of internet poker action to good use in event 56 of the World Series of Poker, playing into the early hours of Wednesday morning to capture his first gold WSOP bracelet and $403,483 in the $1,000 buy-in NLHE event. The event’s relatively low […]
July 2, 2014
The Latin American-facing live tournament organiser Latin Series of Poker (LSOP) is to re-brand following a copyright complaint from the World Series of Poker, which claims that the LSOP title infringes its copyright and trademark. Diego Chan, president of LSOP, said this week that he has opted to re-brand his company, which will in future […]