Poker Tournament News
The 2022 World Series of Poker was a great success this year. The transition to the new digs on the Las Vegas Strip went smoothly and the turnout was tremendous. The Main Event also came extremely close to breaking its attendance record. And while we continue our long exhale from the month and a half-long… Read more »
It may not seem like it in some areas of the country, but we’re moving closer to the autumnal season and cooler weather. As such, people start to move indoors for their entertainment activities, and the streaming channel PokerGO is looking to provide a month of poker entertainment for its fans and subscribers. Beginning on… Read more »
Back in May, we said that the two major Player of the Year races could be completely upended by the time the World Champion was crowned. To help prove this point, it was Ali Imsirovic who was riding high on both lists as the World Series of Poker began its festivities. All it took was… Read more »
The World Poker Tour season paused during the World Series of Poker, but it did not wait a single minute to get started again. On Sunday, Robert Mizrachi won the WPT Venetian Las Vegas Main Event, the first WPT title of his already-successful live tournament career. The $5,000 buy-in event drew 1,178 entrants, pumping the… Read more »
You might be forgiven if you missed the fact that the World Poker Tour is continuing its Season XX schedule right now in Las Vegas. The WPT opened action on the 2022 WPT Venetian Las Vegas, right smack in the middle of the climactic moments of the 2022 World Series of Poker, but they have… Read more »
End coming into view A small percentage of people ever have a moment when they can see their dreams directly in front of them, just waiting to be snatched up. For the 35 players remaining in the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event, Wednesday is one of those moments. Today is the day that… Read more »
Playing under the bright lights The World Poker Tour has announced the addition of the WPT Ladies World Championship to this year’s schedule. The tournament will part of the WPT World Championship event lineup at Wynn Las Vegas, slated for December 1-20. The WPT Ladies World Championship will run December 16-18. The buy-in will be… Read more »
The 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event field has dwindled to just 123 players; more than 8,500 players have fallen by the wayside. After Day 5, there is a good battle going on at the top of the leaderboard, with James Hobbs bagging the largest stack of 12.505 million chips. Not far behind is… Read more »
The 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event enters Day 5 on Monday and with just 380 players remaining, the real serious money is in view. Not that most of us wouldn’t be thrilled with a $36,000 payday, which is the minimum cash at this point in the tournament, but six-figure payouts aren’t far away.… Read more »
At the 2022 World Series of Poker, the $10,000 Main Event is clearly the tournament that draws the most attention and generates the most excitement. After all, it is the most famous poker tournament in the world. But this year, a new tourney may be stealing a little bit of the Main Event’s thunder: the… Read more »
Three down, one to go We have arrived. Today is the day for which World Series of Poker officials have simultaneously filled us with excitement and dread. Day 1C of the 2022 WSOP Main Event is in the books, so it is on to Wednesday’s Day 1D, which is expected to be gigantic. The final… Read more »
Hagenlocher takes the pole position Two flights down, two to go in the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event as tournament officials brace for a deluge of entrants the next couple days. 880 more players joined on Monday’s Day 1B, bringing the two-flight total to 1,780. That’s nothing amazing, but it’s pretty good for… Read more »
Yesterday, I commented that the 2022 World Series of Poker has seemed to run fairly smoothly at its new digs at Paris and Bally’s Las Vegas so far. Perhaps I spoke to soon. On Monday afternoon, the WSOP sent out a “911” message on social media, urging anyone planning to play in the $10,000 Main… Read more »
All in all, the 2022 World Series of Poker has been relatively controversy-free. There is always something every year, but overall, it seems like the WSOP’s first year on the Strip has gone pretty smoothly. There IS always something, though. On Sunday, eyebrows were raised and feathers were ruffled over a slightly wacky misdeal. The… Read more »
The real challenge is staying on top Over here in the United States, it is Independence Day, the Fourth of July. And because it is on a Monday, that means a three-day weekend for lots of folks. With the excitement of a three-day weekend, I suspect that many poker fans forgot that the 2022 World… Read more »
No rest for the weary The World Series of Poker has released the 2022-2023 WSOP Circuit schedule, which kicks off as soon as this summer’s WSOP ends. The first stop is at Choctaw Durant in Oklahoma, just north of the Texas border, about an hour and a half from Dallas. All told, there are 25… Read more »
No joking matter (actually, it was) Yesterday, we talked about a glitch on GGPoker that wreaked havoc across the online poker room. As we said, though things like that sometimes happen online, internet poker mostly avoids some of the problems of live poker, such as misdeals. And hoo boy, was there an entertaining misdeal the… Read more »
High roller tournaments have become old hat nowadays, the main reason why the all-time money list is now dominated by “younger” players. The term “high roller” can signify a range of buy-ins, from $15,000 to $25,000 to $50,000. But then there is the “Super” high roller, which uses the modifier to mean something even more,… Read more »
As the midpoint of 2022 draws within sight, the two major Player of the Year races have tightened up considerably. While the player who held the top slot on the CardPlayer Magazine board has remained the same, those that are in pursuit have crept closer. On the Global Poker Index, it has resulted in a… Read more »
I suppose this should be called “Yesterday at the 2022 WSOP,” but considering the extremely busy Tuesday at Paris and Bally’s Las Vegas concluded with three bracelets awarded in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, we can stick with what we’ve got. Let’s take a look at the tournaments that finished up overnight at the… Read more »
There are certain accomplishments in one’s poker life that a player will never forget. Playing at the World Series of Poker. Eliminating Phil Ivey from a tournament. Winning a WSOP gold bracelet. How about all three? Aleksejs Ponakovs did just that Monday night, as he knocked out arguably the greatest poker player of all time… Read more »
The day before summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere (though it has certainly felt like summer in many places for weeks now), the 2022 World Series of Poker has several events in action at Paris and Bally’s Las Vegas. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights: Steve Albini wins his second bracelet… Read more »
As someone who has written about poker and gambling for quite some time now, Pedro Bromfman is interesting to me. I feel like I’ve seen his name pop up a lot over the years, so he has clearly done something right in the world of poker, but looking up his live tournament results, he has… Read more »
The 2022 World Series of Poker is going on as we speak, but the world of poker is not exclusively inside Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas. In this version of “In Case You Missed It (ICYMI),” we will look at some of the other news that has come to the fore. You will learn about… Read more »
The pandemic isn’t over Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the in-person version of the World Series of Poker (along with most other live activities for months), the deadly virus is still having an impact on the WSOP. Things are “back to normal” at the Series, now located at Paris and… Read more »
