Swiss student an instant millionaire at poker tourney

July 1, 2014

Five days ago 22-year-old Swiss Hotel Management grad Hugo Pingray was just another face in a 7,862 entry field for the World Series of Poker event 51 – the inaugural Monster Stack – and one of the smaller stacks to boot. By late Monday night Las Vegas time he was an instant millionaire and the […]

Big win for Canadian at WSOP

July 1, 2014

By the third day of World Series of Poker event 55, a $1,500 buy-in NLHE contest, Canadian player Asi Moshe was among 17 survivors of a massive original field of 2,396, hanging in around the middle of the chip stacks….by day’s end he had claimed his first WSOP winner’s bracelet and a very impressive first […]

German ace wins event 54 at WSOP

June 30, 2014

20 players – all that remained from a starting field of 474 – survived to the third and last day of Event 54 of the World Series of Poker and gathered at the Rio in Las Vegas to compete for the best share they could get of the $1,294,020 prize pool in the event, a […]

WSOP ladies championship completes

June 30, 2014

The $10,000 buy-in Ladies NLHE Championship competition – number 53 on the World Series of Poker schedule – came to a conclusion over the weekend with a heads up between two amateur players, businesswoman Haixa Zhang and digital marketing specialist Mikiyo Aoki. It was the culmination of a three day affair in which 793 entrants […]

Detroit victory in poker tournament

June 30, 2014

Twenty-seven-year-old Detroit poker pro David Olson is the latest maiden bracelet winner at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, taking down event 52 – the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’Em contest for $303,909 despite a professional-rich and competitive field of 122. The field, and the $1,146,800 prize pool that it generated, could have been […]

Biggest win yet for San Diego poker pro

June 29, 2014

San Diego poker pro David Miscikowski capped a substantial online and live tournament career over the weekend with his first World Series of Poker bracelet and his biggest pay-day yet – $719,707. Miscikowski’s previous best score was $13,400 in a 2012 WPT event, although he has managed to cash eleven times in WSOP events previously. […]

Top poker pro claims his tenth WSOP bracelet

June 28, 2014

Congratulations to one of the world’s most skilled poker players, Phil Ivey, who on Friday night earned his tenth World Series of Poker bracelet, placing him in the august company of legends Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, and edging him closer to all-time record bracelet holder Phil Hellmuth. Ivey achieved his latest honour playing heads […]

WSOP Monster Stack lives up to its name

June 28, 2014

Thousands of players jammed every available inch of space at the Rio in Las Vegas Thursday and Friday as registrations were extended to two starting flights to accommodate 7,862 entrants for the well-named Monster Stack NLHE competition, number 51 on the World Series of Poker schedule. It was the biggest field since the 2006 Main […]

Million dollar poker win for Hennigan

June 27, 2014

Thursday was a memorable day for US poker pro John Hennigan for a number of reasons, thanks to event 46 at the World Series of Poker – the $50,000 buy-in prestigious Players’ Championship: he bested a 101-strong field that included many of the most notable names in global poker; he was awarded the Chip Reese […]

Clements denied third WSPO bracelet

June 27, 2014

Tyler Patterson has scored eighteen World Series of Poker cashes, and made it to three final tables in poker’s biggest tournament, but never cracked a winner’s bracelet…until Thursday night. The 31-year-old Washington state pro managed to survive a field of 990 other poker fans eager for a share of the $1,337,850 prize pool in event […]