Poker Tournament News
After about four hours of heads-up play, Hossein Ensan won the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event Wednesday morning, defeating Dario Sammartino and winning $10 million plus an insane 50th anniversary bracelet worth around half a million dollars. Ensan, who grew up in Iran before moving to Germany, became the second Main Event champ… Read more »
It must be a pretty good feeling to go into a day knowing you are about to be at least a million dollars richer. That’s how nine men were feeling on Sunday, as the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event final table got underway. With a minimum payout of a million bucks and a… Read more »
It’s time to get serious at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. Day 4 was a crossover day of sorts, as the money bubble burst at the end of Day 3 and now it was time for players to start trying to charge up the leaderboard. With just 354 players remaining, it is… Read more »
I should have stopped writing before my last sentence yesterday. It was in that final sentence that I predicted that the money bubble of the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event would not burst until early in Day 4. I WAS WRONG, OK? Because of course tournament officials had to let things play out… Read more »
It is a new week at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. All flights are complete – the three from Day 1 and the three from Day 2 – and now everyone who still has chips will unite into a single field today for Day 3. Everybody under one roof, all playing at… Read more »
Over the weekend, I was combing through results from the 2019 World Series of Poker, seeing many familiar names and many unfamiliar ones and wondered to myself if there had been any double bracelet winners this year. Obviously, I could have carefully studied the list of winners, but that’s a long list and I’m a… Read more »
Tonight, across the United States, people are getting an early start on the Independence Day fireworks, while looking forward to the most impressive displays tomorrow night and then figuring out creative ways to use up the rest of their celebratory explosives throughout the weekend. Most of the people in the Rio poker room in Las… Read more »
I have been in the poker/poker news industry for 14 years, but I will readily admit that I am not all that into actually watching poker. When I covered the World Series of Poker live a couple times, it was exciting to be there and I very much enjoyed the experience, but in the crowd… Read more »
Razz is a polarizing game. World Series of Poker Main Event commentator Norman Chad has led the hate parade and many people have jumped on his bandwagon. Many view it as a game based too much in luck; the best starting hands aren’t huge favorites over decent starting hands and so much of the result… Read more »
For much of the first month of the 2019 World Series of Poker, it has seemed like the bracelet races were going to those who already had one, two, or three WSOP wins on their record. And that’s great – it is further evidence that poker is a game of skill, that the best players… Read more »
Do you like news about partypoker? Well, you are about to get more news about partypoker. The online poker room has announced that it will begin allowing players who wish to compete in the partypoker LIVE events the opportunity to begin the tournaments on the internet. It sounds a little weird, but the structure is… Read more »
One of the things that is fun about watching poker, reading about poker, or writing about poker is that it is one of the few sports (or games, if that’s how you think of it) in which it is really easy to live vicariously through the competitors. So many of them – even the ones… Read more »
There are 47 players who have won at least four bracelets at the World Series of Poker. After winning Event #20: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud last night, long-time poker pro Eli Elezra is one of them. This was Elezra’s first WSOP win since 2015, when he won this exact same event. His first bracelet came in… Read more »
It is clearly not easy to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. If it was, I would have one (to be fair, I should start by actually playing in a WSOP event, but let’s not pick nits). To win more than one is something that I, frankly, feel is absurd. On Sunday, Frankie O’Dell… Read more »
As the 2019 World Series of Poker was beginning, Season XVII of the World Poker Tour was ending and it all came to a head early this week when Ole Schemion won the Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Not that my opinion means anything, especially… Read more »
Sweet. We have a controversy at the 2019 World Series of Poker. With four players remaining in the Event #5: High Roller – $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em for the 50th Annual, veteran poker player Sam Soverel acted out of turn, potentially influencing the rest of the action and possibly contributing to Dmitry Yurasov’s elimination in fourth… Read more »
Did you wake up this morning with a sense of anticipation? A feeling of elation that you haven’t felt since last year? Or were you like me and woke up to an e-mail informing you that your homeowner’s insurance policy is lapsing because your mortgage loan company’s system screwed up the premium payment?* If it… Read more »
The six-handed final table has been determined for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event. The players will now take a week and a half break before commencing final table play at the Luxor’s HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas on the final day of May. Right now, it looks like a two horse… Read more »
The World Series of Poker draws the world together around the card table but, by the end of June, players are a bit spent (both physically and cash-wise). The “powers that be” with partypoker and their extremely successful LIVE series aren’t daunted by this, however, as they have teamed up with ARIA Resort and Casino… Read more »
Nobody would even argue that the World Series of Poker Circuit carries with it the same cachet as the traditional World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, but it is still a well-respected poker tour and if you are able to have repeated success on it, you are doing something right. But there is success… Read more »
The 50th World Series of Poker arrives at the end of his month, but for many poker enthusiasts, participating in the festival is just not a possibility. Whether it is the buy-in (though there are some “inexpensive” ones now), travel, time off of work, or whatever, it just doesn’t work out for everybody. That is… Read more »
After battling through two Day Ones and 922 entries, the Main Event of the European Poker Tour’s stop at the Casino de Monte Carlo has ended. In what was a stirring battle after a three-way chop for the money, Germany’s Manig Loeser emerged as the champion in defeating China’s Wei Huang and Hungary’s Viktor Katzenberger… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is enjoying their time at the Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco this week, battling their way through their €5000 Main Event. The field has now been whittled down to the final 30 players, with Timothy Adams holding a slim lead over former EPT champion Nicolas Chouity. Working to the Final… Read more »
The survivors from both Day 1 flights came together on Wednesday at the 2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino European Poker Tour Main Event to play five more hour-and-a-half levels. After Day 2, just 107 players remain and the money bubble has burst. It is a two-way race at the top of the leaderboard, with Wiktor… Read more »
Both starting flights have been completed at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort as the 2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event heads into Wednesday’s Day 2. Sylvain Mazza is the chip leader, bagging 288,700 chips at the end of the night. Turnout for the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event has… Read more »
