Almost two weeks of tournament poker – 12-hour grinds with nearly 8600 players battling it out for supremacy – have brought us to arguably poker’s finest moment. The 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event final table will begin on Sunday evening, looking to crown the next World Champion of the sport and the people… Read more »
After a day of play when it seemed as if the players, dealers and floor staff of the WSOP were late for a train, the final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event has been determined. In the driver’s seat for the start of play on Sunday will be Hossein Ensan, who… Read more »
The 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event has reached its critical Day 7. After seeing 106 players come back on Thursday, only 34 remain with the hope of making it to the pinnacle of poker success, the final table of the “Main Event.” Leading these players are a quartet of men over the 30… Read more »
If the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event were a horse race, the equivalent would be the Belmont Stakes, the longest race of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown. And, if it were like a horse race, we could say we have entered the top of the stretch after Day 5. But it would be… Read more »
Former poker pro and 2015 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions…um…champion continued his trivia prowess last month, winning a $20,000 prize on the popular HQ trivia app. And according to a tweet Jacob made earlier this week, he still has not been paid. HQ trivia (as well as its spin-offs, HQ Sports and HQ Words) are in… Read more »
A little over a year ago, Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a law – by about a 3-to-1 margin – that banned online gambling operators from outside of the country. That law is now in effect, with only the country’s casinos as the ones who are permitted to be licensed. Even though 73 percent of those… 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 »
Georgii Belianin, the poker player who was disqualified from the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event on Day 1C for taking the chips of an absent player in the seat next to his, has issued a public apology for what transpired. As witnesses to the incident told it, Belianin had been playing for a… 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 »
The first of two-Day Twos set flight on Saturday after what was a tremendously tumultuous Friday of action at the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event. Unlike the turmoil of Day 1C, Day 2AB (the combination of Days 1A and 1B) went through five levels of action with…GASP!…only POKER being played! By the end… Read more »
With the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event into its Day 2 action, the contenders have begun to make themselves known for the Player of the Year award. While it might be obvious that a two-time bracelet winner is in the lead, what might be surprising is just how small that lead might be.… Read more »
To say that there have been some strange occurrences going on at the Rio for the 2019 World Series of Poker Championship Event (the “Main Event”) would be a huge understatement. A check of the lunar calendar doesn’t show that there is a full moon or any other heavenly alignment to cause issues, but there… 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 »
After a slow start to the year, sports betting legislation continues to build momentum as another state is about to legalize the industry. This time it is Maine, as both branches of the state legislature recently approved LD 553, which would authorize sports betting within state borders. The bill was introduced at the end of… 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 »
Did you ever play any of the novelty cash games at PokerStars last year and think to yourself, “Self, I wish I could play this game in a four-hour long tournament.” Well, you are in luck, as three of those novelty games are now available in multi-table tournament format at the world’s largest online poker… Read more »
