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The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino may be the property that is hopping right now in Las Vegas, what with the 2015 World Series of Poker going on, but ARIA Resort & Casino is doing its very best to get poker players over to its venue. The WPT500 is currently being held there as a… Read more »
Brian Hastings is making a case for WSOP Player of the Year, as he has become the first player this year to win two bracelets at the 2015 World Series of Poker. The 26-year old who is better known for his online poker prowess won Event #39: $1,500 Ten-Game Mix, earning $133,403. Hastings certainly seems… Read more »
It was a busy Friday at the 2015 World Series of Poker as three tournaments handed out bracelets. It would have been four, but the final two contenders in that event played to the WSOP curfew before deciding to come back on Saturday afternoon to decide the champion. Event #34 – $1500 Split Format Hold’em… Read more »
The 2015 World Series of Poker is blowing past the halfway point as more than half of the scheduled events have either started or concluded. In two of those concluded events, a top professional was able to capture his third WSOP bracelet against a difficult field while a newcomer surprised the pros in the other tournament. Event… Read more »
When one looks back on the poker boom era of the World Series of Poker, one of the distinct themes was the changing of the guard from the old school players who became instant television stars in the mid-aughts to the new-age, brash, young internet players who learned the game by grinding out thousands of… Read more »
OMG. Phil Galfond won the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship Monday at the 2015 World Series of Poker, earning his second career bracelet and his first since 2008. For the win, Galfond won $224,383. As is always the case with high buy-in specialty events like 2-7 Draw Lowball, the field was very small, just… Read more »
During the course of the past month, discussion on internet poker forums of third-party software usage in online poker has been heating up. Always a subject of debate, the topic has found some extra steam recently primarily because of a controversial, yet quite secretive piece of software developed by a player named “skier_5.” As such,… Read more »
Working its way into its third weekend of the schedule, the 2015 World Series of Poker had arguably one of its busiest days yet in the series. There were four bracelets awarded throughout Saturday – three from scheduled events and one that had been suspended from Friday – as the tournament schedule drew closer to… Read more »
The 2015 World Series of Poker, like the venerable riverboats of yore on the Mississippi River, is steaming into its third weekend of action. On the schedule for Saturday is the completion of one event that was carried over from Friday night alongside two tournaments which will crown a champion on Saturday. Event #24: $1500… Read more »
In this latest (and first) edition of “truth in advertising,” the 2015 World Series of Poker’s sixteenth event, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker did actually create a millionaire (or technically, multiple ones, depending on the net worth of the individual players going into the tournament…but I digress). Tuesday night, Adrian Buckley won the third… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth continues to prove that poker is a game of skill with an element of chance, not the other way around. In fact, when Hellmuth plays at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), it seems that it takes bad luck for him NOT to make a deep run in a tournament. Already the most… Read more »
A quartet of Pennsylvania State Senators are preparing to introduce another online gambling bill, the fifth piece of legislation on the subject this year. Sponsored by Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati, Sen. Robert Tomlinson, Sen. Elder Vogel, and Sen. Kim Ward, the bill will aim to amend multiple aspects of Pennsylvania’s Gaming Act, not… Read more »
The Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino and, in particular, the tournament poker arenas were buzzing yesterday at the 2015 World Series of Poker. Coming back to a delayed tournament, Konstantin Maslak came off the short stack in Event #13 to win the WSOP bracelet while U. S. professional players Barry Hutter and Shaun Deeb… Read more »
The 2015 World Series of Poker entered its second weekend of play with the final day of action in two tournaments. In one the eventual winner triumphed over several known professionals in the field while the other fell short of its goal to crown a champion. Event #12 – $1500 Six Handed No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
The 2015 World Series of Poker is headed into its second week of action with a host of bracelets on the line for its participants. In yesterday’s action, the highly controversial Heads Up World Championship reached its conclusion while a part-time player defeated several top professionals on his way to winning WSOP gold. Event #10… Read more »
It’s been a busy first week of the 2015 World Series of Poker. In total, nine events have crowned champions, including the largest ever live tournament victor and a feat that hasn’t been done since 2009 in another tournament. Event #5 – “The Colossus” In a rapid five hour blast, the champion of “The Colossus”… Read more »
Ah, it seems like yesterday when over 22,000 entries were racked up for “The Colossus” at the 2015 World Series of Poker. Last night the field was cut down to the final 39 players as, in the very same Amazon Room, the players in the Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball World Championship reached the… Read more »
Making the biggest noise in the room, “The Colossus” careened onward on Sunday at the 2015 World Series of Poker but, somewhat oblivious to the commotion around the largest live poker tournament ever, Lowball specialists gathered together to determine what is essentially the game’s World Champion. Event #5 – “The Colossus” As we documented here… Read more »
In the end, it was what the officials for Caesars Entertainment and the WSOP had billed it to be: the largest ever live tournament ever held. When the numbers were announced for “The Colossus” at the 2015 World Series of Poker this afternoon, it wasn’t surprising that it broke records but what was a stunner was the… Read more »
In what has been a frantic weekend around the tournament rooms of the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino, the 2015 World Series of Poker – and its grand experiment, “The Colossus” – and its officials have been holding their breath regarding how well the tournament was received. From all appearances, the players came out… Read more »
If its “Colossus” tournament wasn’t enough for players and fans around the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino, the 2015 World Series of Poker had three other tournaments that might have captured someone’s fancy. In these tournaments, a player was denied a bracelet after dominating the final table, one of Hollywood’s elite will take on… Read more »
With surprisingly little fanfare (no celebrities or showgirls around for the “shuffle up and deal” announcement this year) the 2015 World Series of Poker is off and running. The first official bracelet of this summer’s grandest poker spectacle has been awarded and, in the second tournament on the schedule, there are 20 players that are… Read more »
Today is the day. Opening day of the 46th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Poker players, their families, friends, and poker fans are flocking to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino just off the Las Vegas Strip for a month and a half of card playing madness. More than 60 bracelets will be awarded,… Read more »
The World Series of Poker is about to begin and later this year, a few people are going to be millions of dollars richer. In 2008, Ivan Demidov was to be one of those skilled and fortunate players, as he finished second to Peter Eastgate in the WSOP Main Event, the first time the world… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker – and its 64 event schedule – set to begin next week, the players have completed essentially the first half of the tournament poker “season.” As players prepare to descend on the “Oasis in the Desert” two men, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Anthony Zinno, will be at the top of… Read more »
