Yaginuma, Carroll will still receive prize money Though it stopped short of saying collusion or chip dumping occurred, the World Series of Poker has announced that there will be no winner of the $1,500 Millionaire Maker event and no bracelet will be awarded. The two final players and the ones at the center of the… Read more »
The first month of the 2023 World Series of Poker has seen several historic moments, but, arguably, Thursday was one of the biggest. In one of the marquee events of the WSOP, Brian Rast earned his third-ever title in the event (and sixth WSOP bracelet overall) against what was a power-packed final table. Elsewhere around… Read more »
The day before summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere (though it has certainly felt like summer in many places for weeks now), the 2022 World Series of Poker has several events in action at Paris and Bally’s Las Vegas. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights: Steve Albini wins his second bracelet… Read more »
Getting ready to take their wares totally online for the first time in their history Caesars Entertainment, the World Series of Poker and GGPoker have announced the schedule for GGPoker’s segment of the 2020 “online WSOP.” The 54-event schedule is replete with Texas Hold’em style tournaments, with a smattering of Omaha tossed in, but not… Read more »
Last week, I wrote an editorial about how there wasn’t a need for a Rounders 2 in the Poker Cinematic Universe (or the PCU, which you can say you heard it here first!). One thing that is timeless, however, are documentaries, as seen by the recent Ken Burns opus Country Music (well worth the time… Read more »
One of the things that is fun about watching poker, reading about poker, or writing about poker is that it is one of the few sports (or games, if that’s how you think of it) in which it is really easy to live vicariously through the competitors. So many of them – even the ones… Read more »
The 2019 World Series of Poker is into its second weekend of action and it promises to be a busy one. There will be a flurry of activity as two tournaments that were supposed to conclude on Friday enter overtime, another event will play to a WSOP bracelet and the “Millionaire Maker” opens its second… Read more »
We are two weeks away from the start of a historic moment (OK, technically 13 days, but you get what I mean). The 50th Annual World Series of Poker will begin on May 29 at 11AM with its traditional first event, the $500 Casino Employees Event. From there, the prestige only gets bigger as some… Read more »
