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Negreanu going for the title The next round of High Stakes Duel 4 is set. PokerGO announced on Tuesday that for Round 2, Daniel Negreanu will take on old nemesis Doug Polk. Both players will buy in for $100,000. There is no set date yet, but the match-up will take place some time in August… Read more »
Coming clean Poker pro Ali Imsirovic has confirmed some, but not all, accusations that he has cheated in online poker. In a video he posted to YouTube on Sunday, Imsirovic said that he did, in fact, multi-table in tournaments on GGPoker in 2020. Imsirovic explained that he multi-tabled for a few months during the COVID… Read more »
The first month of the 2023 World Series of Poker has seen several historic moments, but, arguably, Thursday was one of the biggest. In one of the marquee events of the WSOP, Brian Rast earned his third-ever title in the event (and sixth WSOP bracelet overall) against what was a power-packed final table. Elsewhere around… Read more »
This afternoon, Caesars Entertainment and World Series of Poker officials announced the eleven people who are the nominees for induction into the Poker Hall of Fame. The 2023 class is split almost equally between players who have had a long history on the felt versus those who have contributed from off the velvet baize. It… Read more »
“Horrible for poker” The talk of the poker world the last few days has been the cheating allegations against Martin Kabrhel, who finished third in the $250,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller event on Sunday. Multiple players at the final table and at tables with him on previous days suspect he was marking the cards… Read more »
Cheating allegations getting serious You can always count on there being some sort of controversy every year at the World Series of Poker. The 2023 edition has been fairly clean, that is, until this past weekend, when multiple poker pros accused Martin Kabrhel of marking cards during the $250,000 High Roller event. Now the WSOP… Read more »
Chris Brewer has been one of the most successful high stakes tournament players over the last few years, routinely finding himself deep in high roller tournaments. In fact, he currently ranks number two on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard. But one thing has eluded him: a World Series of Poker bracelet. On Sunday, he finally achieved… Read more »
It is the third weekend of action at the 2023 World Series of Poker, and there is action everywhere you look at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. A trio of bracelets were handed out on Friday night, while one of the largest buy-in tournaments in WSOP history opened action. Saturday will be the day… Read more »
As of today, at the 2023 World Series of Poker, 35 tournaments are in the books. Surprisingly, that is only slightly more than a third of the events that are on the roster for poker players from around the world. As the third Thursday of the series kicks off today, two men are celebrating their… Read more »
Shaun Deeb loves playing poker, loves making money. But more than most players, he really loves the competition of tournament poker. Poker is a game, after all. Deeb is one of those guys who really tries to win Player of the Year awards, to try to win more than his friends, just because those races… Read more »
Ben Lamb ran through an absolutely stacked final table on Tuesday to win his second career World Series of Poker bracelet, taking the title in Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. For the win, Lamb cashed for nearly half a million dollars. Poker is a funny game in that luck plays as… Read more »
On Sunday, Earl Burton caught you up on a bunch of the day’s tournaments at the World Series of Poker, but the WSOP is so busy that there was even more going on after he clicked “publish.” So, let’s take a quick look at a couple of the more interesting tournaments as the weekend came… Read more »
It is the second Sunday of action at the 2023 World Series of Poker and there have been bracelets flying out of the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas rapidly. This afternoon at the WSOP, former WSOP Player of the Year Josh Arieh joined the highly exclusive “Five-Timers” club. In other action, the “Gladiators of Poker”… Read more »
If poker is your business, then business has been pretty good over the last week. The 2023 World Series of Poker has been doing some brisk business, seventeen events into the schedule, and several bracelets have been handed out over the last couple of days. Here’s a quick look at who those fortunate recipients have… Read more »
The 2023 World Series of Poker is only a week old and we already have our first double bracelet winner. On Tuesday morning, Chad Eveslage won Event #10: $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Championship, just a few days after winning Event #5: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed. Perhap’s it’s time to name the game type “Chad’s Choice?” Joking… Read more »
Less than a week into the 2023 World Series of Poker and we are already at the point where a million events overlap and it feels like there is a final table concluding every other minute. On the first Sunday of the WSOP, the schedule really came to a head as four gold bracelets were… Read more »
The first weekend of the 2023 World Series of Poker is upon us, and the folks at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas aren’t letting the players rest at all. In the two major tournaments, a longtime “High Roller” pro picked up his second piece of jewelry, while 64 men have battled down to the… Read more »
The first Friday of the 2023 World Series of Poker brings the usual bustle that is associated with the biggest poker tournament on the planet. It also brought history as, on Thursday evening, a new star was born on the Mothership in the $25,000 “High Roller” event. While that was occurring, the Tournament of Champions… Read more »
It only started a few days ago, but the 2023 World Series of Poker has taken no time to reach full speed. The halls of Paris Las Vegas and the Horseshoe have been bustling and the first jewelry is reaching its deserving champions. In the books already is the traditional WSOP starter, the Casino Employees… Read more »
When he was a 22-year-old internet poker sensation, Tom Dwan won the largest pot in televised poker history. In Season 5 of High Stakes Poker (filmed in late 2008, aired in 2009), he turned trip Queens to beat Barry Greenstein’s pocket Aces and win a $919,600 pot. Last night, Queens were his friend again as… Read more »
Yes, I 100% went for the cliché in the headline. I’m not a tournament director, so I need to take the one really good opportunity I have per year to use it. Maybe two, if I go for the gold on Day 1 of the Main Event. But yes, the 2023 World Series of Poker… Read more »
It was a tale of two halves of a tournament. At the beginning of the final day of the World Poker Tour’s Gardens Poker Championship, the start of day chip leader Ryan Salunga was the dominant force on the table, seemingly taking players out at will. After the final table reached three players, however, Ky… Read more »
The world has not been wanting for poker action in the leadup to the 2023 World Series of Poker. The World Poker Tour, as they have for the past few years, has been holding three of its more recent events at the HyperX Arena at Luxor in Las Vegas ahead of the WSOP, and the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Championship Main Event is down to its final 22 players as the chase for the $357,380 first prize gets down to the nitty-gritty. Ky Nguyen is the chip leader with 1.750 million chips. As I mentioned yesterday, the chip counts at the top of the leaderboard going into… Read more »
The $5,250 World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Championship Main Event moved on to Day 2 after two starting flights. Of the 346 entries (one re-entry was allowed per flight), 126 still have chips in front of them heading into Tuesday’s action. Leading the way is Girish Reknar with 459,500 chips. Unlike many large tournaments,… Read more »
