World Series of Poker news.
In only three days, the 53rd Annual World Series of Poker will take place in Las Vegas. This is a year like few others, however, in that there have been some changes to the action for 2022. We are going to look at some of those issues that might arise and perhaps offer some suggestions… Read more »
That’s right…if you have been under a rock for the past six months, you might find it hard to believe that it is only a few weeks until the cards hit the air for the 2022 World Series of Poker. The actual date for the first event is May 31 (when the Casino Employees Event… Read more »
Get a Caesars Rewards card We are exactly four weeks away from the start of the 2022 World Series of Poker, the 53rd running of the most prestigious poker festival on the calendar. With the tournaments drawing near, registration has opened, allowing players to better plan their trips to Las Vegas. The WSOP has posted… Read more »
More money for non-Hold’em events With the 2022 World Series of Poker just two months away, the WSOP is making a hard push to recruit as many dealers as possible to cover the hundreds of tables needed for bracelet events, satellites, and side games. On Monday, the WSOP announced a new pay structure to try… Read more »
Let’s just have the WSOP every few months When the World Series of Poker announces the schedule for the year’s big poker festival, I often say something like, “It seems like the WSOP just ended.” This time, it really did just end, as the pandemic shifted the 2021 WSOP to the fall. But the 2022… Read more »
Old name back in Vegas The Horseshoe will once again be part of the World Series of Poker. On Wednesday, Caesars Entertainment announced that it is rebranding Bally’s Las Vegas as Horseshoe Las Vegas. Because the World Series of Poker has moved from the Rio to Paris and Bally’s on the Strip, this means that… Read more »
The King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, was a gracious host for the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe, so it was only natural that one of their “native sons” would take home the biggest prize. Czech native Josef Gulas was able to outlast the seven-man final table and, in particular, France’s Johan Guilbert to… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Winter Online Circuit returns this weekend on GGPoker, with 18 ring events up for grabs. Those dozen and a half ring events come with over $26 million in guaranteed prize pools. The headline number, though, is $100 million. That’s the amount of guaranteed prize money across all of the… Read more »
The 2021 World Series of Poker Europe is down to the final stretch, as just seven players remain out of 688 total entries. The original intent going into Tuesday’s Day 4 was to call it a night when only six players still had chips, and they had time to get there, but in the end,… Read more »
The record-breaking 2021 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event is nearing the end, as just 32 players remain of the original 688 entries. Bulgaria’s Dimitar Yosifov is the chip leader at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, with 5.880 million chips in his stack. After Yosifov, it is a virtual tie for second place… Read more »
After two Day Ones that brought the numbers close to the record, Sunday’s Day 2 action at the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event shattered the record. More than 600 entries were received in the event, which will head off to Day 3 on Monday with Germany’s Christian Stratmeyer at the helm of… Read more »
While the field was not as large on Saturday for the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, it still made its impact. The runners who came to the line brought the total number of players right to the cusp of the record for the largest WSOP-E Main Event in history. That record will… Read more »
Dodging the restrictions imposed by the Czech government, the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe’s Main Event has wrapped up action on their first Day One of action. The number of players that have come to felt will ensure that it will be one of the most well-attended WSOP-E Main Event’s in the history of… Read more »
Another highlight performance We were all unsure what to expect with the return of the World Series of Poker this year. One thing we did get was a ton of amazing performances. From Main Event champ Koray Aldemir to Player of the Year Josh Arieh to final table record breaker Phil Hellmuth, the 2021 WSOP… Read more »
It seems like just yesterday that Josh Arieh found himself playing the role of semi-villain in the World Series of Poker Main Event, but that was 17 years ago. Now he is the wise poker veteran, still living in Atlanta where there is absolutely no poker except for underground games. And now he is also… Read more »
He may not be a tremendous fan of the World Series of Poker Player of the Year formula, but Phil Hellmuth certainly did his darndest to finish atop this year’s POY rankings. It doesn’t look like he will pull it off, but “The Poker Brat” has etched his name into the record books once again,… Read more »
The 2021 World Series of Poker is still creeping along, using the days after the conclusion of the $10,000 Championship Event to wrap up some unfinished business (or, perhaps, to milk a little more out of the cow). The High Roller tournaments have been the featured events over the weekend, with two of them actually… Read more »
While many may have thought that the 2021 World Series of Poker concluded with Koray Aldemir’s dominant run to the World Championship, there are some odds and ends that remain to be cleared up. One tournament on the schedule yet is the $250,000 “Super High Roller” No Limit Hold’em event, which naturally was a star-studded… Read more »
Putting on a display of poker prowess that has not been seen in some time, Germany’s Koray Aldemir completed the task that he started at the beginning of November. In a dominant fashion, Aldemir rode the chip lead he had built at the start of the final table of the 2021 WSOP Championship Event to… Read more »
Home of the poker boom During the excitement of the 2021 World Series of Poker final table last night, Caesars Entertainment slipped viewers a bit of news that one would think they would have trumpeted from the mountaintops: these are the final days of the WSOP at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Starting next… Read more »
Aldemir absolutely cruising Austrian, a Brit, and a Yankee walk into a bar…and buy everybody drinks. This might have been the scene last night if Koray Aldemir, Jack Oliver, and George Holmes didn’t feel the need to get some rest, as the three of them are guaranteed to be a combined $15.3 million richer as… Read more »
With every World Series of Poker, and the WSOP Main Event, in particular, there comes controversy. Of course, this year the big to do was about COVID-19 safety requirements. Last year, controversy surrounded the surprise online/live hybrid Main Event after there had already been what people thought was a Main Event on GGPoker. But those… Read more »
For the first time in over two years, we have a true World Series of Poker Main Event final table. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, while most people in the United States were asleep, Koray Aldemir eliminated Demosthenes Kiriopoulos in tenth place to narrow the 2021 WSOP Main Event field to nine players… Read more »
Just three days and 36 players remain in the 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event. It is shaping up to be a good race at the top, with New Jersey’s Hye Park holding the chip lead entering Monday’s action with 29.5 million chips. Three other players have over 20 million: Demosthenes Kiriopoulos (24.905 million),… Read more »
The 2021 World Series of Poker Championship Event is wheeling its way into the final days of the event. After Day 5 action, there are only 96 players remaining from the original field of 6650 players. Once again near the top of the leaderboard is Day 4 chip leader Damon Colillas, but he does not… Read more »
