World Series of Poker news.
I have a great life, no doubt about it, but damn if I’m not looking at Maurice Hawkins right now and feeling a bit envious. Hawkins may not be a household name in the poker world, but few players can match what he has been doing over the last few years. On Monday, Hawkins tied… Read more »
Just in time for everyone to make their plans, officials of Caesars Entertainment have announced the official schedule for the 48th Annual World Series of Poker. Once again to be held at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, this year’s schedule will run from May 30 to July 17 and offer whatever… Read more »
The World Series of Poker continues to trickle out details of the schedule for this year’s WSOP. Last week, the schedule what the WSOP calls its “flagship weekend anchor events” was announced. The 2017 WSOP will run May 30th through July 17th, meaning that there are six weekends available during the Series. It appears that… Read more »
The final schedule is still in development, but the key dates for the 2017 World Series of Poker were announced Monday, allowing poker players around the world start marking their calendars. It all gets underway on Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 and runs through the establishment of the November Nine on Monday, July 17th. “We want… Read more »
The World Series of Poker has announced the addition of seven stops to the WSOP International Circuit schedule, bringing the total number of stops on the non-U.S. portion of the Circuit to 14. The first six additions, announced a couple weeks ago, are: Sydney, Australia – November 22 through December 12, 2016 – The Star,… Read more »
Success in the game of poker is entirely based upon the decisions that a player makes while they are on the table. There is that visual element – money won – that some would like to make the most dominant part of the game but the reality is if you don’t make the right decisions,… Read more »
Early Wednesday morning, the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event concluded, crowning a new World Champion. Qui Nguyen dominated (or Gordon Vayo gave up, depending on your viewpoint) en route to the championship, keeping all his opponents off balance with his moves on the felt and boggling the mind of even three-time WSOP bracelet… Read more »
If you are going to play in the World Series of Poker Main Event for the first time, might as well make it a good one. Qui Nguyen, with only $9,000 in live tournament earnings and a WSOP Main Event rookie, won the 2016 WSOP Main Event early this morning, bagging a gaudiest of diamond… Read more »
Qui Nguyen continued his domination of the 2016 World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table Monday, as the field was given a haircut from five to three. Nguyen began the day as the chip leader with 128.625 million chips, slightly more than the next two players combined. He finished with almost 200 million, significantly more… Read more »
After three and a half months of waiting, the final table of the 2016 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event – the November Nine, if you will – got underway Sunday night. Of course, Sunday night was October 30th, not November, which could be confusing, but that is because the U.S. Presidential Election is… Read more »
OK, we know how we got to this point and we know how the men will line up on the felt. When the cards hit the air this afternoon at the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event will draw… Read more »
Tomorrow afternoon the men who constitute the “November Nine” will reconvene at the Penn & Teller Theater inside the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to begin the work of determining poker’s next “World Champion.” The World Series of Poker Championship Event is the “holy grail” of anyone who has ever picked up… Read more »
After what has seemed to be an eternity, the World Series of Poker’s Championship Event will resume action on Sunday. The 2016 “November Nine” will be reseated on the stage at the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas just over three months after they all became millionaires… Read more »
The Big One for One Drop Invitational announced last week that it has locked up 35 players to participate in the €1 million blockbuster poker tournament. The Invitational is part of a week-long Big One for One Drop Extravaganza taking place October 13th through October 17th at the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco; the Big… Read more »
A week from today marks the beginning of ESPN’s fall coverage of the 2016 World Series of Poker; within the past week, the “Worldwide Leader” released the complete schedule for the weekly broadcasts. Oh, how times have changed. Whereas a decade ago, we might have seen a number of preliminary events in addition to the… Read more »
The poker boom’s origin story begins in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event. ESPN’s television coverage was coming of age, allowing millions of viewers to revel in the victory of an amateur with the glorious poker name. It was also the first time that most people had heard of… Read more »
Day 7 of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event began with 27 players filling three tables and finally ended at around midnight Pacific time as the nine member of the final table – best known in the poker world as the “November Nine” – were determined. Leading the way is New York’s Cliff… Read more »
Since early on in the 2016 World Series of Poker, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Jason Mercier was going to claim the WSOP Player of the Year (POY) title and while he did, it was not until yesterday, that he could say the award was officially his. With Paul Volpe’s ouster from the… Read more »
Here we are. The 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event field was whittled from 80 players down to just 27 on Sunday. The next step: determine the November Nine. Those 27 remaining players will get together at noon Pacific time on Monday and will play as long as it takes to get down to… Read more »
Two days from now, the “November Nine” will be determined for the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event. As for Saturday, the 251 players who came back for Day 5 action had their minds set just on making it through another day. 80 men were able to keep the dream alive after another grinding… Read more »
The tension is beginning to mount in the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino’s Amazon Room in Las Vegas as the final days of the 2016 World Series of Poker’s Championship Event are in action. With only 251 players remaining from the monstrous 6737 player field, WSOP bracelet winner Bryan Piccioli is the player that… Read more »
The 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event saw the entirety of the field come together for the first time. The 2186 players who had been fortunate enough to battle through the alphabet soup mix of Day Ones and Twos were now faced with the challenge of surviving another large field and actually making it… Read more »
The final Day Two is in the books at the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event and, although he would emerge with the day’s largest stack, Day 2C chip leader Gustavo Lopes wasn’t able to catch the man who is the overall chip leader, Valentin Vornicu. A massive throng of 3252 players – larger… Read more »
As the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event rolls on, we are still in that weird-feeling portion of the tournament in which the field is carved into pieces. We already had the three starting flights, but the Main Event is so big that even on Day 2, the field has to be split… Read more »
If you play poker, you will inevitably play against some unsavory characters. I suppose in everything we do in life, we have dealings with people we love and people we would rather see trip on the sidewalk and chip a tooth. But poker seems to bring out the creeps sometimes. Enter Chris Ferguson and Howard… Read more »
