Texan takes down WSOP Circuit event

January 22, 2014

Texas online and live tournament professional player Tyler Morris bested a record entry list of 1,427 rivals in the $1,675 buy-in Main Event of the World Series of Poker Circuit stop in Durant, Oklahoma on Monday, playing at the Choctaw Casino. The event turned out to be one of the biggest main events in WSOP […]

2014 WSOP dates released

December 20, 2013

The organisers of the World Series of Poker have announced that the 45th in the series will take place at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas between May 27 and July 14, 2014. Next year’s prestigious event will again feature the $1,500 buy-in Millionaire Maker and the $1 million buy-in Big One for […]

WSOP reshapes international event format

November 26, 2013

Caesars Entertainment’s World Series Of Poker announced significant changes to its International event schedule Tuesday, consolidating and making bi-annual the WSOP Asia-Pacific and the WSOP Europe events. The second WSOP Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC), in partnership with Australia’s Crown Melbourne, will be expanded to feature 10 open bracelet events and is expected to run from October […]

Online poker firms gear up for New Jersey tournaments

November 26, 2013

With New Jersey online gambling now moving into full commercial operations, major companies are gearing up their promotional efforts in the new market, with the Party Poker and World Series of Poker brands especially prominent. The former is vigorously promoting www.njpartypoker.com, with Mike Sexton, a member of the Poker Hall of Fame and founding father […]

Quebec poker ace does it again

November 24, 2013

Quebecer Charles Sylvestre, who took an event winner’s bracelet home from this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, has claimed another WSOP honour, this time the WSOP Circuit main event at the Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau. 371 hopefuls paid the $1,675 buy-in to enter the week-long main event, generating a prize pool […]

Ryan Riess wins the 2013 WSOP main event

November 6, 2013

The crowds were back at the Rio theatre Tuesday to see the final confrontation in this year’s World Series of Poker main event as 23-year-old poker pro Ryan Riess and amateur player and night club promoter Jay Farber (29) returned to decide this year’s big winner. There was plenty of Las Vegas razzmatazz and showmanship, […]

Farber and Riess in WSOP Main Event heads up

November 5, 2013

The World Series of Poker Main Event hasn’t disappointed in terms of fast play and thrilling action as contenders were eliminated in short succession, leaving amateur Jay Farber and 23-year-old Ryan Riess the last two standing. When play resumes on Tuesday, November 5 at 18:00 Pacific Standard Time, Farber and Riess will go heads up […]

Three down on World Series of Poker final table

November 5, 2013

Monday evening at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas was a buzzy, noisy affair as the railbirds gathered to support  their favourites in the final table of the 2013 World Series of Poker. Finalist Ryan Riess appeared to be especially well-supported, with a fair number of people sporting “Riess the […]

WSOP Final table kicks off today

November 4, 2013

16 weeks on from the 2013 World Series of Poker, the nine final table players who survived return to the felt in Las Vegas today to battle it out for the winner’s millions and the prestige of taking home a WSOP main event winner’s bracelet. 5 Americans, a Canadian, an Israeli, a Dutchman, and a […]

WSOP 2013 climax this week

November 1, 2013

In just a few days – November 4 and 5 – poker fans around the world will be watching the live televised climax of this year’s World Series of Poker….the final table at which nine survivors from an original field of 6,352 face off with millions of dollars in prizes up for grabs. The main […]