After six weeks of battle on the felt at the 2014 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the major Player of the Year races in the poker world have been completely readjusted. One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is that all three major rankings have a completely different picture of who is having the… Read more »
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2014 WSOP Championship Event November Nine Set as Mark Newhouse Makes History
After 13 hours of battle amongst the survivors of the 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event field, the “November Nine” have been determined with one man, Mark Newhouse, making history in his achievement. Three tables of nine players returned on Monday with the glow of potentially taking down the World Championship in their eyes.… Read more »
2014 WSOP Championship Event Day 6: Martin Jacobson Takes Over Lead with Three Tables Remaining
There are now only 27 survivors remaining in the 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event. After another bruising day of battle on the felt, Sweden’s Martin Jacobson has emerged as the leader with a massive stack that dwarfs his nearest rivals. 79 players would return on Sunday, all still with the hope that they… Read more »
2014 WSOP Championship Event Day 5: 2013 November Niner Mark Newhouse Rises To the Top, Maria Ho Final Woman Standing Again
The 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event is edging its way towards the creation of this year’s “November Nine” with one of the players who made it to that rarefied air last year in the lead and the 2007 “Last Woman Standing” still in contention herself. 291 players came out of the gates on… Read more »
2014 WSOP Main Event Day 4: Liporace, Yousefzadeh Eclipse Million Chip Mark, Phil Ivey Still Holding Strong
Day 3 of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was the first day of the tournament in which all remaining players were competing at the same time, the first without a letter suffix. 1,871 players began the day with their eyes still set on the prize, but only 746 will return Friday… Read more »
2014 WSOP Main Event Day 2C: It’s a Phil Ivey World
If this keeps up, the audience for the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event final table on ESPN will be tremendous. Day 2C of the Main Event, the largest of the three Day 2’s, took place Wednesday with 2,571 players looking to make it to Thursday. 1,047 survived led by none other than Phil… Read more »
2014 WSOP Main Event Days 2A & 2B: Timothy Stansifer Looks Down on Field
With the three starting flights out of the way and all the registration and prize pool numbers discussed, it is time to make the trek into the meat of the 2014 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event. We’re still not yet at a single, unified field, but we’re getting closer. On Tuesday, the 505… Read more »
2014 WSOP Main Event Day 1C Sets Starting Flight Record
On Sunday, WSOP officials said that registrations for Day 1C of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event had already surpassed the total registrations for Day 1B, while Day 1B was going on. As such, it was expected that Day 1C would be gigantic. It was. The Day 1C field of 3,968 players set… Read more »
2014 WSOP Main Event Day 1B : Field Growing Quickly, Trey Luxembruger Holds Top Stack
It was no surprise that Day 1A of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was a little light; the first flight usually is. Pro poker players don’t normally like to have multiple days to wait before Day 2 if they make it through Day 1 and those that flew in just for… Read more »
Day 1A of World Series of Poker Championship Event Begins, Martin Jacobson Leads
What some poker players have been waiting all summer for opened up for business on Saturday. Day 1A of the 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event took to the felt battlegrounds of the Rio at noon sharp yesterday, with the defending champion of the tournament, Ryan Riess, stepping up to defend his title. As… Read more »
WSOP Preliminary Events Wrapping Up Ahead of Championship Event
With the Championship Event on the horizon at the 2014 World Series of Poker, several preliminary events have either wrapped up or are on their final days of action. In three of the tournaments champions were determined, while the “Little One for One Drop” still has a sizeable field to contend with. Event #58 –… Read more »
Chad Brown: 1961 – 2014
Chad Brown, actor, model, baseball player, poker pro, and one of the greatest ambassadors the game of poker has ever had, passed away early Wednesday morning after a long bout with cancer. He was 52-years old. We all like to think we are going to leave our mark on this world, that peoples’ lives will… Read more »
2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop Enters Day 3 on the Money Bubble
It was a long, long, long Day 2 at the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop Event as play dragged on into the wee hours of Tuesday morning before it was time to call it a night (or almost day). The plan for Monday was to narrow the field… Read more »
2014 WSOP Million Dollar Big One for One Drop Begins; 42 Players Create $15.3 Million Prize Pool
One of the most highly anticipated tournaments of the 2014 World Series of Poker, the million dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop, got going Sunday as some of the poker and business world’s elite plunked down an ungodly sum of money to try to win an ungodlier sum of money and/or a platinum bracelet.… Read more »
Phil Ivey Makes History in Winning His 10th WSOP Bracelet in Eight Game Mixed Event
He’s already done more in his career arguably than any other player all-time, but the (too-soon to call him “legendary”?)Phil Ivey etched another chapter in his legacy at the 2014 World Series of Poker. In Event #50, the Eight Game Mixed Event, Ivey became only the fourth player to crack the double-digit mark in bracelets… Read more »
John Hennigan Outlasts Powerful Final Table to Win $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship
After over 11 hours of card-based combat, veteran poker professional John “Johnny World” Hennigan earned his third lifetime World Series of Poker bracelet in taking down arguably the WSOP’s most prestigious title in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. Coming to the final table, 2014 WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Shack-Harris (4.101 million chips) was ruling over… Read more »
2014 WSOP: Brandon Shack-Harris Leads History Making Poker Players’ Championship Event
In what turned out to be arguably one of the longer – and most entertaining – days of play in a tournament at the 2014 World Series of Poker, 2014 WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Shack-Harris is in the hunt for a second bracelet as he leads the history-making $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. 22 players came… Read more »
Jordan Morgan Wins 2014 WSOP $1,500 NLH, Earns First Career WSOP Bracelet
Even at only 30-years old, Jordan Morgan has been around the poker scene for what seems like forever. Well known as one of the earliest online poker celebrities, “iMsoLucky0” is well respected in the game, even if he does consider himself “semi-retired” on his Twitter page. But even with all the success he has had,… Read more »
2014 $50,000 Poker Players Championship Second Smallest in History
Day 2 of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #46: $50,000 The Poker Players Championship is in the books with Jason Mercier out in front in what still remains a close race at the top of the leaderboard. The second day of this tournament was a significant one, as it was the first… Read more »
Matt Glantz Leads After Day 1 of 2014 $50,000 Poker Players Championship
The highlight tournament of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) other than the $10,000 Main Event got underway Sunday as a loaded field of players sat down for Event #46: the $50,000 The Poker Players Championship. The event has not lost its luster after almost a decade, both players and fans consider it the most… Read more »
2014 WSOP: Three Bracelets Awarded During Frantic Saturday Play
Business was booming on Saturday at the 2014 World Series of Poker as three events awarded bracelets, including the first bracelet in a unique tournament that saw many poker variations dealt that haven’t graced the felt at the WSOP for many years. Event #39 – $3000 No Limit Hold’em Battling through a 992 player field,… Read more »
2014 WSOP: Brian Yoon Wins Speedy Eight Handed NL Bracelet, Steven Wolansky Denies Joseph Cheong in Lowball
The 2014 World Series of Poker has broken the halfway mark on its march to the 2014 Championship Event as two more bracelets were awarded on Wednesday. One event went so quickly that it didn’t need a fourth day and another saw one of the members of the 2010 “November Nine” denied his first bracelet.… Read more »
Dutch Boyd Wins Third WSOP Bracelet
He might not be widely loved in the poker community, but you can’t say Dutch Boyd can’t play poker. On Tuesday, Boyd won his third World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, taking the hardware in 2014 WSOP Event #33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. Boyd has been under a lot of scrutiny for over a decade,… Read more »
Joe Cada Wins First WSOP Bracelet Since 2009 Main Event
Monday featured what could be argued to be the highlight final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) so far. Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em was already considered a fairly prestigious event. It’s one of a dozen $10,000 events this year (a baker’s dozen if you count the Ladies Event) and is,… Read more »
PokerStars Addresses Player Concerns About Sale to Amaya Gaming
The poker world is still buzzing with a mix of excitement, anxiousness, amazement, and dread since the news of the sale of PokerStars to Amaya Gaming broke Thursday night. Speculation as to what this could mean to the world’s largest online poker room and the industry as a whole has been rampant, with questions about… Read more »