World Series of Poker news.
We’re only two weeks into the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and we already have our first double bracelet winner. Dominik Nitsche, who previously won the WSOP National Championship which was held just before the WSOP-proper, took the title in 2014 WSOP Event #21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em yesterday, adding $335,659 to his bank account.… Read more »
2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em entered Day 3 with just 12 players of the original 2,086 remaining, and even though it took a few hours to get down to the official final table, we knew we would see a champion crowned Monday. That man was former United States Marine… Read more »
Kory Kilpatrick certainly knows how to make the most of his World Series of Poker final table appearances. On Monday, the professional poker player from Athens, Georgia, won his first-ever bracelet, nabbing the jewelry in the 2014 WSOP Event #20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout in what was also the first trip to a WSOP final… Read more »
You know a poker tournament is special nowadays when it gets the legendary Doyle Brunson to register. Such was the case with 2014 World Series of Poker Event #18: $10,000 Seven Card Razz, the most expensive razz tournament in WSOP history. “Texas Dolly” doesn’t compete in this tournaments much anymore, but this one was apparently… Read more »
It is a full slate Monday at the 2014 World Series of Poker as four events pick up where they left off over the weekend and one event gets underway. Enough of the formalities, though; let’s have a quick look around the Rio to see what will be going on today. Event #19 – $1,500… Read more »
Grinders grind. Small cashes, large cashes, they keep playing tournament after tournament to make a living. It’s what they do. And Dan Heimiller is one of tournament poker’s most successful grinders. In 2002, he won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. After a dozen years of grinding the WSOP, he finally won another… Read more »
It has been a busy weekend at the 2014 World Series of Poker as the schedule heads to the end of its second full week of play. Over the past few days, four bracelets have been handed out and one more had to extend to an unscheduled Day Four to determine its champion today. Event… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker has hit the quarter pole as Wednesday marked the tenth day of the 42-day summertime grind in Las Vegas. There will be two more bracelets handed out on Thursday as those tournaments sit at their final tables, ready for their “close-up” that will determine the champion. Event #12 –… Read more »
If there is anything that is a “short” day at the 2014 World Series of Poker, then Wednesday was that day. Only one bracelet was handed out, but it was a big one as Justin Bonomo captured his elusive first WSOP bracelet in Event #11, the $1500 Six Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament. The 1587… Read more »
After not awarding a bracelet on Monday for the first time at the 2014 World Series of Poker, the players got back into the act as a trio of them were handed out on Tuesday. Among the tournaments that wrapped up on Tuesday was one that would award the first seven-figure payout of this year’s… Read more »
As it did in 2013, the $1500 “Millionaire Maker” – Event #8 on the 2014 World Series of Poker calendar – rewrote the record books in the barely week-old 2014 WSOP. Not only did the tournament bring in the largest number of entries for a non-Championship Event tournament, it also has seen a rarity in… Read more »
In what turned out to be another thrilling day at the 2014 World Series of Poker, Alex Bolotin was able to outlast the 12 survivors of the No Limit Shootout to claim his first bracelet while – in a meeting that brought the most WSOP bracelets to a heads up match in its 45-year history… Read more »
Amid the throngs of players that flooded the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino on Saturday for the 2014 World Series of Poker, two tournaments quietly went about their duties of crowning champions. In a $1000 No Limit Hold’em event, Kyle Cartwright rode his start-of-day chip lead to take the crown while former World Poker… Read more »
Two tournaments took to the floor of the Rio at the 2014 World Series of Poker for their Day One action on Friday. The No Limit Hold’em Shootout worked down to the 120 players who would earn a payday from the event as a nice field turned out for Seven Card Razz, with Phil Hellmuth… Read more »
As Vanessa Selbst was making history at the 2014 World Series of Poker on Friday, two other tournaments worked their way down to their final day of action. In one of the multitude of $1000 No Limit events, Kyle Cartwright will take the survivors to Day Three as the leader while Phil Galfond is atop… Read more »
The history books have been rewritten in just the first week of the 2014 World Series of Poker on Friday as Vanessa Selbst defeated Jason Mo to capture her third WSOP bracelet while Brandon Shack-Harris was able to weave his way through a difficult Pot Limit Omaha final table to take down his first career… Read more »
As Joe Ely once said, “the road goes on forever and the party never ends.” (OK, my favorite version of the song, anyway.) That pretty much sums up the first week of the 2014 World Series of Poker as a popular event with the professionals kicked off play on Thursday and two more events enter… Read more »
Amid the flurry of activity around the Rio on Thursday at the 2014 World Series of Poker were two events in different stages of their play. In Event #3, the $1000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, Steve Billirakis is looking to add to his bracelet collection as the leader at the final table and Miguel Proulx… Read more »
After their kickoffs to start the 2014 World Series of Poker on Tuesday, two tournaments reached (or came close to reaching) their endpoints. Event #1, the Casino Employees Event, crowned a champion on Thursday – a day later than expected – while the pro-packed Mixed Max tournament will crown theirs later today. Event #1 –… Read more »
As the action continued in the first two events of the 2014 World Series of Poker, Event #3, the action packed $1000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, took to the floor of the Rio for its first day of action. After 1128 players came to the tables for Day One, Loren Klein has emerged as the… Read more »
While it was expected that the first bracelet of the 2014 World Series of Poker would be awarded on Wednesday, the WSOP curfew put the kibosh on that. Instead, the Casino Employees’ Event will finish off on Thursday as the $25,000 Mixed Max tournament heads into its Day Three play. Event #1 – $500 Casino… Read more »
Four hours after the Casino Employees Event kicked off the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the highlight event of the first week, Event #2: $25,000 Mixed Max No-Limit Hold’em began its four day journey. In this Mixed Max tournament, Day 1 is played with nine-handed tables, Day 2 is six-handed, Day 3 is four-handed,… Read more »
There is not a much better way to start a poker tournament than to get some of your buy-in back. And the 2014 World Series of Poker sure as hell started in style yesterday. Prior to the traditional first tournament, the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em Event, WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart made a short… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) begins today, but one bracelet has already been awarded. Most people probably don’t realize it (I even forget sometimes), but the WSOP National Championship is held on the boardwalk in Atlantic City before the WSOP proper, celebrating the best WSOP Circuit players of the season. This is year,… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker technically begins on Tuesday, featuring a slate of big events that should draw in many of the biggest names in the game for the high buy-in events and the return of what was one of the favorite events of the 2013 schedule. The reason that “technically” is used to… Read more »
