It was a battle throughout the Day Two festivities at the 2023 WPT World Championship on Saturday, but it was well worth it – for at least 480 people. It wasn’t until the final hand of the night that the money bubble was popped and, with that, those 480 fortunate souls will come back on… Read more »
Davidi Kitai
WSOP Paradise Reversing Earlier Trends with GGPoker High Roller Tournament
The 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise is underway in the Bahamas and, after a tentative start, the money has started to flow. Two events are in the books, which barely brought out enough players to crack the guarantees that were placed on the tournaments. That has changed with the first “big money” tournament of… Read more »
2022 EPT Prague Main Event: Money Bubble Pops, Ezequiel Waigel Holds Chip Lead over Remaining 119 Players
The bust outs were frequent on Saturday at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov as the European Poker Tour continued onward with its EPT Prague Main Event. Despite 453 players coming back for Day 2 action, the players were leaving the casino quick enough to allow for the money bubble to be popped. As the dust… Read more »
Belgium Notches its First WSOP Bracelet
If you're like many of the people looking at this article, you just read that headline and thought, "Really?" Well, it's true. No one from the country of Belgium had captured a World Series of Poker bracelet, until late Sunday night, that is. Brussels native Davidi Kitai became the first Belgian player ever to win a World Series of Poker bracelet in Event #38, a $2,000 pot limit hold'em tournament. He bested a field of 605 of poker's elite, cashing for $244,583. More importantly, he put his own country on the WSOP map. For one night, it seemed, Belgium was on top of the world. Read more »