Pokertube Vegas to provide WSOP coverage

June 5, 2014

UK-based poker media and entertainment company 180Vita has announced the launch of PokerTube Vegas, a project which promises to provide video and written coverage of this year’s World Series of Poker currently underway at the Rio. The Betfair-powered venture will offer exclusive interview content from the Las Vegas venue, carried out by experienced poker interviewers […]

Three more WSOP events completed

June 4, 2014

Millions of dollars continued to change hands at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas Tuesday as three more events concluded. The one to watch was Event 8, a $1,500 buy-in Million Maker competition that saw one of the biggest entry fields in WSOP history at 7,977, generating a prize pool worth $10,768,950 (see […]

Two more bracelets awarded at WSOP

June 2, 2014

The action continued at full blast in Las Vegas over the weekend as more World Series of Poker events concluded, handing out millions of dollars in prizes to players. In the $10,000 buy-in Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball competition 120 entrants, including noteworthy names like David Benyamine, Jon Turner, Jason Mercier and Alexandre Luneau, battled […]

Memorable milestone at WSOP

June 2, 2014

Event 8 at the World Series of Poker – the $1,500 buy-in Millionaire Maker – attracted the biggest WSOP entry field since the 2006 main event this week, registering 7,977 hopefuls over two start days and generating a massive $10,768,950 prize pool which will ensure that the ultimate winner takes home well over $1.3 million. […]

Cartwright wins WSOP Event 4

June 1, 2014

The first of the $1,000 buy-in NLHE events at the World Series of Poker proved to be good news for Kyle Cartwright over the weekend which saw the Tennessee pro demolishing the opposition to start final table action with a million chip advantage, subsequently using the edge to skilfully dominate play and emerge the winner […]

Chicago player in WSOP win

May 31, 2014

The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas awarded another gold bracelet Friday when mixed games specialist Brandon Shack-Harris bested a field of 1,127 other competitors to claim victory in the $1,000 buy-in Pot-limit Omaha event and claim the lion’s share of the $1,015,200 prize pool. Shack Harris’s take-home after defeating Morgan Popham in the […]

Poker pro claims her third WSOP winner’s bracelet

May 31, 2014

International poker pro Vanessa Selbst had the satisfaction of taking down a trash-tweeting Jason Mo Friday in the $25,000 buy-in Mixed Max event at the World Series of Poker, turning possible failure into certain victory by taking two major pots in the finale. The event was one of the first to start at WSOP last […]

First 2014 WSOP event completes

May 30, 2014

The first bracelet event in this year’s World Series of Poker – the $500 buy-in Casino Employees NLHE competition, took rather longer than anticipated but has concluded at the Rio in Las Vegas, with Roland Reparejo claiming the main prize of $82,835 after 3 days of action and a tense early-hours-of-the-morning adjournment at the heads […]

Barcelona shenanigans at WSOP?

May 30, 2014

In a disappointing start to the World Series of Poker this week, poker players who had travelled to Las Vegas for the epic tournament reported thefts of money and laptops from the Rio Hotel where they were staying. The complaints, especially from Finnish players Lauri Pesonen and Joni Jouhkimainen, had an eerie deja vu quality […]

WSOP starts with a bang

May 28, 2014

The organsers of this year’s World Series of Poker promised a few surprises, and the first one was at the launch in the Brasilia Room at the Rio Tuesday. Executive director Ty Stewart asked rhetorically if the assembled players liked free money, then provided the answer as several loud explosions showered one dollar bills on […]