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Monday was an historic day at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) as Aussie Jeff Lisandro won his sixth career WSOP bracelet, taking the title in the AU$1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha Event. In doing so, he defeated fellow Australian Poker Hall of Fame member Jason Gray heads-up, denying him of his first… Read more »
While we wait about another month for the World Series of Poker Main Event to conclude, the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) doled out its first two bracelets of the year over the weekend. First up at the Crown Melbourne casino in Australia was the conclusion of the AU$1,100 Accumulator Event, a… Read more »
The final two flights of the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific’s (WSOP-APAC) inaugural event, the $1000 No Limit Hold’em “Accumulator” tournament, took place on Friday. While the overall numbers were vastly lower than the 2013 version of the event, the remaining field promises some exciting play as Dan Heimiller and Peter Longmore emerged from… Read more »
Whetting the appetite for next month’s “November Nine” finale, the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) kicked off its ten-event schedule on Thursday. At the close of the day, two-time WSOP bracelet winner Scott Clements emerged from the field as the chip leader for the $1000 No Limit Hold’em “Accumulator” event. The tournament, introduced… Read more »
While it may seem that the “November Nine” were determined just yesterday, the poker world is only one week away from the start of the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC), which begins on October 2. The Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, will once again play host to the ten-bracelet tournament schedule and, with… Read more »
The World Series of Poker action may have just ended at the Rio All-Suite Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, but poker fans can now catch up on everything (read: not everything) that happened by tuning in to ESPN from this week through the end of the Main Event in November. The telecasts kicked off last… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
If there is a bad time to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event, it is smack dab in between the million dollar Big One for One Drop and the crown jewel of the WSOP, the $10,000 Main Event. I mean, no time is really a bad time to win a WSOP tournament, what… Read more »
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 »
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 »
As the throngs head off to the 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event, other players are finishing up the preliminary events leading to it. Three bracelets have been awarded in the final preliminaries while the “Little One for One Drop” has reached its penultimate day. Event #60 – $1500 No Limit Hold’em Coming out… Read more »
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 »
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 »
It was Daniel versus Daniel. One, a young online heads-up specialist, the other one of the greatest live tournament players of the last couple decades. Appropriately, it might seem, it was the heads-up specialist that triumphed heads-up, as Daniel Colman defeated Daniel Negreanu last night to win the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,000,000… Read more »
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 »
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. David Olson, the winner of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Fixed-Limit Hold’em event, originally just planned on playing in the Monster Stack event, but was convinced by his friends to play in the Fixed-Limit Hold’em Championship and he ended up winning the whole thing. Haixia… Read more »
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 »
The 2014 World Series of Poker is reaching the top of the stretch run, but that didn’t stop two more bracelets from finding deserving owners on Saturday. In an overtime match, David Miscikowski was able to outlast Norbert Szecsi to take the title while, in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em World Championship, David Olson emerged as… Read more »
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 »
The 2014 World Series of Poker has been running at full throat for the last four weeks, but today is something that many players have been looking forward to. For the first time since its introduction in 2012, the $1 million “Big One for One Drop” will take to the floor of the Rio All… Read more »
