The World Poker Tour is enjoying its stay at Wynn Las Vegas this month. After a plethora of events that shattered guarantees, the WPT has reached its pinnacle tournament, the 2023 WPT World Championship, and is through the first two of four flights. One of its preliminary tournaments, the WPT Prime Championship, has reached its… Read more »
Thomas Wolfe famously once said that you “can’t go home again.” Come 2023, PokerStars is going to test that adage. Last week, PokerStars announced it will resurrect two of its most popular tournaments in 2023, taking them both back to the islands of the Caribbean for action. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, PokerStars Players Championship Coming Back… Read more »
Poker might be a tough way to make a living, but there are other areas that it could be argued are even tougher. In particular, the world of professional golf is a highly competitive endeavor in which the players have to climb a ladder to reach the pinnacle of the game. Recently, a poker player… Read more »
With the shutdown in tournament poker due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many of the all-time money earner lists have also paused as there aren’t any new tournaments to add to the totals. Prior to this, we’ve covered the entirety of the Western Hemisphere, so it’s time to head to the “Old Continent” and the nations… Read more »
There are a few things that you can count on in life – death, taxes, some segment of the New England Patriots pissing you off. You can perhaps add the yearly stop by the World Poker Tour at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles for the L. A. Poker Classic and its Main Event, which… Read more »
After a controversial tournament conclusion in Canada, the World Poker Tour has moved onward to what is one of the venerable stops on its yearly circuit. Tomorrow, the WPT L. A. Poker Classic, a tournament that has been a part of the WPT schedule since the tour’s inception, kicks off with its singular Day One… Read more »
Continuing to hold court over the throng of players still in the tournament, poker professional Brandon Meyers continued to hold the lead as Day 2 of the 2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic concluded. At the same time, those that are left in the event found out what they were playing for… Read more »
Some of the greatest poker players of all time have had cards named after them: the 10-2 is the Doyle Brunson, the A -10 is the Johnny Moss and a pair of eights and a pair of Aces will forever be known as the Dead Man's Hand in honor of Wild Bill Hickok. While the legends of the game are occasionally enshrined in that peculiar hand that they have each forever branded, Gus Hansen has dozens of hands named after him. Gus Hansen is a viable adjective in the poker community. Read more »
